Placing a Child For Adoption

It takes a brave parent to make an adoption plan and to place their baby up for adoption.  It takes caring adoptive parents to adopt babies and make a legal, secure adoption plan for their family. We can: Represent the birth mother in the adoption process to make sure her rights are protected. Connect birth Read More »

Medicaid Planning

Faced with the idea of long term care, many people are overwhelmed with the thought of how to pay for it. Medicaid is a jointly-run program of the federal government and New York State that offers a broad range of medical and health benefits, including long-term care, for those with limited resources. Many people believe Read More »

Kimberly N. Rothman

The focus of Kim’s practice is estate planning and estate administration Estate Planning Kim takes a holistic approach to estate planning. An estate plan is so much more than just a Will or Trust. It is a comprehensive plan for the management of assets during life and disposition of those assets at death. Estate planning involves Read More »

Maria C. Zumpano, MBA, CPA

Maria represents businesses and the individuals that run them in the areas of business formation and structure, transactions and compliance, tax planning, strategy and advocacy, and business succession planning. Maria's accounting and business background enables her to identify unanticipated problems and offer unique solutions to meet her clients’ needs within the confines of the legal, Read More »

Diana G. Rogatch

"I blend my legal expertise with care and empathy toward clients to earn their trust because navigating the legal process can be unfamiliar and uncertain." Diana Rogatch is an attorney in the firm’s Brownfields Practice and Family Law Practice. Diana has a passion for connecting with her clients, and her business acumen from her M.B.A. Read More »

Jana K. McDonald

Jana McDonald is a Member in the Syracuse office of Bousquet Holstein PLLC and serves on the firm's Board of Managers. Jana practices in the firm's Real Estate Group, representing clients in purchase, sale and lease transactions, title review, acquisition and financing due diligence, and boundary line, easement, rights of way, adverse possession, restrictive covenant, Read More »

Joshua S. Werbeck

Joshua Werbeck is a Member of Bousquet Holstein PLLC and serves on its Board of Managers.  He is a member of the firm's Real Estate, Business, and Liquor Licensing and Compliance Practice Groups. In real estate matters, Josh represents individuals, businesses, and non-profits, including developers, lenders, homeowners associations, condominium boards, and homeowners.  His experience includes Read More »

Title Insurance and Title Law

An integral part of any real property transaction revolves around title review and title examination.   Put simply, a buyer of real estate needs assurance that what is being conveyed…..for valuable consideration…..is good and marketable title.  Our attorneys work to examine title for proof that the real estate under contract for transfer does have good title, Read More »

Oil and Gas Leasing

Recent bans of hydrofracking by New York municipalities may have chilled excitement about oil, gas and mineral development in the petroleum rich Marcellus Shale region of  Upstate and Central New York, but rules and laws tend to change over time, reflecting changing values and economic demands. The hydrofracking bans have, predictably, given rise to legal Read More »