Sandra N. Busell is an attorney and CPA who focuses on Trust, Estates, Guardianships, Medicaid planning and Real Estate.
In her Trusts practice, Sandi focuses on Guardianships, Supplemental Needs Trusts, and the protection of Medicaid benefits as it pertains to the elderly and special needs children and adults.
In her estate planning work, Ms. Busell advises clients on business succession issues. She counsels clients on real estate issues arising from elders buying, selling, and transferring property. She counsels families on reverse mortgages and by using irrevocable trusts, which allows the elderly family members to stay in their home and protect the remaining equity for themselves and their children. Ms. Busell also advises on contested estates between siblings, including representing the non-executor beneficiaries to ensure timely administration and distribution of the estate.
She is frequently appointed by the Supreme Courts in Nassau, Suffolk, and Queens Counties as a guardian, a Supplemental Needs trustee, court appointed Attorney for and a Court Evaluator for persons alleged to be in need of a Guardian.