Kimberly Verner

Specialties

Pierro Law Group’s Special Needs Planning encompasses the holistic planning needs of an individual with a disability. It includes both decision making for the individual with a disability either through the use of a Durable Power of Attorney and Health Care Proxy or through a guardianship. It also includes estate and benefit planning for the individual, often through the use of a Supplemental Needs Trust. In addition, the Pierro Law Group Special Needs attorneys can assist with the application for Medicaid benefits and advocacy through other government agencies. Special Needs Planning can be done for children as well as elderly parents, and family and loved ones who have had Tramatic brain injury, health complications or disease. Ensure your loved ones are taken care of. Pierro Law Group offers comprehensive Estate Planning, Wills & Trusts, Tax, Estate & Trust Administration (Probate), Business Succession and Elder Law services.

History

Established in 1999.

Pierro Law Group was founded on the principals of Experience, Dedication, and Results. We constantly strive to maintain a high level of service to our clients, while keeping costs reasonable through effective management and utilization of resources. Other offices located in New York (Albany, Saratoga, Lake Placid, Utica, Hudson, New York City, Huntington, Hauppauge), New Jersey and Florida. Its attorneys are licensed to practice in New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Florida, Illinois, Michigan, and Washington D.C.

Meet the Manager

Kim V.

Manager

Kimberly Strauchon Verner, Esq. passionately focuses her law practice to counseling families and individuals in the areas of future care planning for persons with disabilities, elder law, Medicaid and long-​term care planning, guardianships, general estate planning, and estate administration. Ms. Verner is extremely active in the disability community, serving on the Board of Directors for both the Down Syndrome Aim High Resource Center and the Living Resources Certified Home Health Agency. She also served on the Board of Directors of the Capital District Center for Independence, three of which were President, and sits on the New York State Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities Task Force on Supplemental Needs Trusts and Housing Issues. Ms. Verner frequently speaks on the topics of future care planning and disability law, guardianship, elder law and estate planning, Medicaid and Medicare.