LexisNexis Practice Guide: New Jersey Elder Law

Peggy Sheahan Knee is a member of The Knee Law Firm, L.L.C. located in Hackensack, focusing on estate planning, elder law, and probate and estate administration. She is a graduate of Fordham College, Fordham University School of Law, and New York University School of Law (LL.M., Taxation). Ms. Knee is certified as an elder law attorney by the National Elder Law Foundation, an organization accredited by the American Bar Association and she is a member of the Council of Advanced Practitioners of the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys. She is a fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel, a fellow of the American Bar Foundation and a member of the American Bar Association, the Bergen County Bar Association, and a Past President of the New Jersey State Bar Association where she served as President from May 2008 through May 2009. She is a member and Past Chair of the New Jersey State Bar Association’s Real Property, Trust and Estate Law Section. Ms. Knee received the Dorothy G. Black Award from the Real Property, Trust and Estate Law Section of the New Jersey State Bar Association for outstanding service. Ms. Knee writes and lectures frequently on estate administration and estate planning topics. She served as Chair of the New Jersey State Bar Association’s subcommittee that drafted proposed revisions to the revised New Jersey Probate Code, which were enacted in 2004 and effective in 2005. She is co-author of the LexisNexis New Jersey Practice Guide on Elder Law.

Linda S. Ershow-Levenberg is the managing attorney of the firm Fink Rosner Ershow-Levenberg Marinaro LLC in Clark, NJ, where her practice concentrates in Elder Law, including planning, litigation and administration. Linda has been certified in Elder Law by the National Elder Law Foundation, the accrediting body which is recognized by the New Jersey Supreme Court and the American Bar Association, since 1999. She is a member of the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys, the NJ Bar Association, and the Union County Bar Association. She is Past Chairman of the New Jersey State Bar Association’s Elder & Disability Law Section. She is the past Chairman of the Union County Bar Association’s Elder Law Committee.

Linda argued before the NJ Supreme Court on behalf of amicus curiae N.J. Chapter of the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys in In re Keri, the seminal case on Medicaid planning by Guardians, for which she received an Appreciation Award from the Guardianship Association of New Jersey (GANJI). She has obtained important administrative Final Agency Decisions in several cases involving the use of immediate irrevocable annuities in Medicaid planning, which confirmed that properly structured annuities are not countable resources: M.W. v. Division of Medical Assistance and Health Services and Union County Board of Social Services, OAL DKT no. HMA 2998-2013, (2014) and P.K. vs Union County Board of Social Services and DMAHS, OAL docket no. HMA7069-09N, Final Agency Decision issued March 4, 2010. She has published articles on elder and disability law in Aspatore Books’ Inside the Minds: Best Practices for Long-Term Planning and Nursing Home Protection (Thompson Reuters Publications 2011); New Jersey Lawyer Magazine (2010); the Marquette Elder’s Advisor, NAELA News, NJ Lawyer Newspaper, and other professional publications for attorneys, and lectures on elder law issues to professional and community groups.

Linda received her B.A. magna cum laude from Douglass College (at Rutgers University) where she was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, and her J.D. from Rutgers Law School-Newark. She was admitted to the Bar in 1984, clerked for the late Honorable Lawrence Lasser, Chief Judge of the New Jersey Tax Court, and has been in practice in New Jersey since 1985. She resides in Elizabeth, New Jersey with her husband David and has 4 children.