Edward V. Wilcenski, Esq.

- Special Needs Estate Planning,
- Trust & Estate Administration, and
- Elder Law and Long Term Care Planning.

He holds the highest rating for both expertise and ethics awarded by Martindale-Hubbell, the independent rating service of the legal profession. He is a graduate of Albany Law School, and received his Bachelor of Science in economics, magna cum laude, from Siena College in Loudonville, New York.

Ed Wilcenski is past Vice Chair of the Medicaid Committee of the New York State Bar Association’s Elder Law Section. He is a Trustee of the NYSARC (formerly the New York State Association for Retarded Children) Pooled Trust, serves as a Trustee of the Wildwood Programs Third Party Pooled Special Needs Trust, and serves on the Board of Directors of the Living Resources Home Health Agency, an organization which provides home care services for the elderly and disabled.

His professional affiliations include membership in the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys, the New York State Bar Association’s Elder Law and Trusts and Estates Sections, and its Committee on Issues Affecting Persons Under Disability. He is a past President of the Special Needs Alliance (www.specialneedsalliance.com), an invitation-only, national network of leading disability law attorneys who practice in the areas of Special Needs Trusts and public benefits. The Alliance provides support for personal injury attorneys representing disabled plaintiffs, insurance companies that finance litigation settlements, and for Trustees of Special Needs Trusts.

Ed Wilcenski is a contributing author to various publications of the New York State Bar Association, including Representing People with Disabilities, and Planning for Incapacity, and Guardianship Practice in New York State, and has co-authored a quarterly article entitled “Regulation News” for the NYS Bar Association Elder Law Section Newsletter.

Presentations for the NYS Bar Association

- Elder Law Planning After the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005
- The New Medicaid Law
- Drafting Supplemental Needs Trusts
- Government Benefit Liens and Supplemental Needs Trusts
- Elder Law Update
- Administering Supplemental Needs Trusts
- Current Development in Elder Law
- Supplemental Needs Trusts in Spousal Cases
- Pooled Supplemental Needs Trusts in New York
- Advanced Elder Law Litigation
- Pooled Supplemental Needs Trusts: An Update
- Elder Law: Beyond the Basics
- Medicaid Eligibility
- Strategies in Settling the Case and Considering the Medicaid Lien
- Drafting Supplemental Needs Trusts
- Planning to Protect the Spouse
- Estate and Future Care Planning for the Disabled and Their Families

Articles for the NYS Bar Association

- An Elder Law Attorney's Role in Personal Injury Litigation: A Value Added Approach
- SSA Clarifies Treatment of Post Death Expenses Paid from Supplemental Needs Trusts
- Drafting Supplemental Needs Trusts: Some Practical Observations and Suggestions
- Medicaid Liens and Recoveries:020MM/ADM-3 Hot off the Press
- The Lesser Known Recovery Right: Medicare Recoupment in Personal Injury Settlements
- The Foster Care Independence Act of 1999 and the SSI Program: Just What Was Needed -
         More Transfer of Asset Rules
- Same Issues, Different Agency: Transfer Penalties and Trust Rules Under the Section 8 Housing Program
- Social Security Administration Issues New Guidelines on Treatment of Trusts for SSI Recipients
- Planning with Trusts and Transfers for Veterans and Their Families
- Negotiating the Benefit Program Maze to Provide Residential Supports for Individuals with Disabilities
- Chapter Two: Social Security Administration Issues New Guidelines on Treatment of Trusts for
         SSI Recipients
- Drafting Supplemental Needs Trusts
- Planning to Protect the Spouse
- Estate and Future Care Planning for the Disabled and Their Families

Special Needs Estate Planning and Elder Law Presentations

- "Future Planning, Trusts, and Other Considerations: Parents Must Write the Script"
         Learning Disabilities Association of America Annual Conference

- "Advanced Financial Planning for the Disabled", NYSARC Executive Directors Association Annual
         Meeting and Their Families

- "Article 81 Guardianships and Supplemental Needs Trusts", New York Public Welfare Association

- "Special Needs Estate Planning, Capital District Conference on Future Care Planning": NYSARC
          Annual Program,

- "Pooled Supplemental Needs Trusts", National Plan Alliance Annual Meeting,

- "Supplemental Needs Trusts for the Younger Disabled Client", Brookdale Institute on Law and Aging

- "Long Term Care Planning with Supplemental Needs Trusts", New York State Traumatic Brain Injury
         Program Annual Conference

- "Government Benefit Eligibility and Future Care Planning", New York State Rehabilitation Association
         Annual Conference

- "Financial and Estate Planning for the Disabled and Their Families", National Alliance for the Mentally
          Ill (NAMI) New York State Annual Education Conference

- "Planning for the Future: Legal and Financial Issues", Alzheimer’s Conference for Caregivers

- "Financial Planning for the Disabled and Their Families, Network of Choice and Opportunity",
         Annual Meeting  (Wildwood Programs, Catholic Charities, Living Resources)

- "Supplemental Needs Trusts", Brain Injury Association of New York State Annual Conference