Gary E. Bashian
Member
Email: garybashian@bashianfarberlaw.com

Practice Areas: Probate; Trusts and Estates; Estate Litigation; Trust Litigation; Accounting Litigation; Elder Law; Guardianships; Guardianship Litigation; Commercial; Commercial Litigation; Tax Law; Corporate Law; Nonprofit Corporations; Legal Malpractice.

Admitted: 1968, New York; 1981, Connecticut; U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York; U.S. Supreme Court; U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit; U.S. Tax Court

Law School: Boston University, J.D.; New York University, LL.M. in Taxation

College: Gettysburg College, A.B.

Member: Westchester County (Chairman: Tax Section, 1977-1980, Chairman, Trusts and Estates Section, 2004-; Treasurer, 1981-1989; Vice President, 1989-1993, President-Elect, 1993-1995; President, 1995-1997; Elder Law Committee), White Plains; New York State (Member Sections in: Business Law; Commercial; Federal Litigation; Elder Law, Vice Chair, Guardianship Litigation Committee; Tax; Trusts and Estates Law Section, 9th Judicial District Representative to Trusts and Estates Law Section, 1990-1994; Executive Committee, Trusts and Estates Law Section, 1990-; Vice Chair, Estate Litigation Committee, Trusts and Estates Law Section, 1995-; Committee on Partnerships, Tax Section, 2005-; Committee on Estates and Trusts, Tax Section, 2005-); Greenwich, Connecticut and American (Member, Sections in: Litigation; Real Property, Probate and Trust Law; Taxation) Bar Associations; Westchester Women's Bar Association, 1997-. Speaker: New York State Bar Association CLE program on Accounting & Income Tax Management for Small Estates, October 22, 1976 and November 5, 1976; New York State Bar Association CLE program on Estate Probate and Administrator for Estates up to $500,000, Fall 1978; New York State Bar Association CLE program on Estate and Gift Taxation for Estates up to $500,000, Fall 1979; New York State Bar Association CLE program on Estate Planning and Will Drafting, Spring 1990; New York State Bar Association Moderator CLE program on Administration of Decedent's Estate and Related Surrogate Court Proceedings, Spring 1991; New York State Bar Association CLE program on Practical Skills for Paralegals and Legal Assistants, Spring 1992; New York State Bar Association Moderator CLE program on Fiduciary Income Taxation, Spring 1992; New York State Bar Association CLE program on Practical Skills Probate and Administration of Estates, Fall 1992; New York State Bar Association CLE program on The Use of Trusts in Planning for the Elderly, Fall 1992; New York State Bar Association Chair CLE program on Basic Changes and New Direction in New York Trusts and Estate Practice, Fall 1992; New York State Bar Association Moderator CLE program on Settling an Estate, Spring 1993; New York State Bar Association Chair CLE program on Practical Skill Estate Planning and Will Drafting, Fall 1993; New York State Bar Association Speaker CLE program on Practical Skills Probate and Administration of Estates, Fall 1994 and Fall 2004; New York State Bar Association Chair CLE program on Advanced Estate Planning, Fall 1998 and Winter 2004; New York State Bar Association Chair CLE program on Practical Skills Estate Planning and Will Drafting, Fall 2001; New York State Bar Association Chair and Moderator CLE program on Hot Topics in Trusts and Estates Practice, Fall 2004; New York State Bar Association CLE program on Successfully Handling a 1404 Proceeding under the SCPA, Summer 2008; New York State Bar Association CLE program on Everything You Wanted to Know About Estate Planning for the Middle Class Client (But Were Afraid to Ask), Summer 2009; Westchester County Bar Association, Trusts and Estates Section Moderator, SCPA 1404 Depositions, Preliminary Letters, Waiver of Attorney-Client Privilege, Dead Man's Statute, Confidential Relationships and Burdens of Proof - Probate, Summer 2005; Westchester County Bar Association, CLE program on What Every Accountant Should Know About Elder Law, Medicaid, Wills and Trusts and The Rules of Each Which Are Often Times Contrary, Summer 2005; Westchester County Bar Association CLE program Moderator on Discovery & Turnover Proceedings by a Guardian or Other Fiduciary Under MHL Section 81.43 and SCPA 2103, Spring 2007; Westchester County Bar Association CLE program on Will and Trust Planning: Federal & State Estate Tax Changes, Summer 2006; Westchester County Bar Association, CLE program on Will Contests Including Preparation and Taking the Deposition and SCPA 1404 Witnesses, Spring 2007; Westchester Bar Association, CLE program on How to Win in Surrogate's Court through CPLR Pre-Hearing Discovery, Summer 2008; Westchester County Bar Association, CLE program on Ethical Issues in Estates and Trusts Litigation, Summer 2009.

Biography: General Counsel, U.S. Tennis Association, Eastern Section, Incorporated, 2002-2004. Author: "Stock Dividends and Section 305: Realization and the Constitution," Duke Law Journal, Vol. 1971, No. 6, 1972; "Tax Tidbits," Westchester Bar Journal, 1977-1999. Co-Author: "Estate Litigation Tidbits," 1999-; "Discovery Under the Surrogate's Court Procedure Act," New York State Bar Journal and Westchester Bar Journal, 1994. Contributing Editor/Author, January, 1976-, Westchester Bar Journal. Contributing Co-Author: Estate Litigation Course Book, New York State Bar Association Committee on Legal Education, 2002. Director, Estate Planning Council of Westchester, 1972-1975, 1990-1993. Delegate, New York State Bar Association House of Delegates, 1995-1998. Board of Directors: YMCA Central and Northern Westchester, 2002-2008; United States Tennis Association/Eastern Section, Inc., Junior Tennis Foundation. Fellow: New York State Bar Foundation, 1989-.

Military: 1st Lt., J.A.G.C., U.S. Army Reserve

Reported Cases: Probate Proceeding, Estate of Alexander MacLeman, Deceased, 9 Misc.2d 1119A, 808 N.Y.S.2d 918 (2005); In the Matter of the Jan Reynolds 1995 Revocable Living Trust, 2006 N.Y. Slip Op. 26087; In the Matter of the Estate of George J. Ferrara, Deceased, 7 N.Y.3d 244, 852 N.E.2d 138, 819 N.Y.S.2d 215 (2006).

Born: New York, N.Y.

ISLN: 909209948