Family Law

• Guardianship
  Russell Lusthaus is admitted to practice before the State Courts of New York, New Jersey and New Hampshire, as well as the Federal Southern District of New York, Federal District Court of New Hampshire, and the United States Supreme Court. He has received numerous appointments by Judges of the New York State Supreme Court to serve as a Referee to Compute in Real Property foreclosure proceedings and as a Court Evaluator in Article 81 Guardianship proceedings. He is a member of the American Bar Association, Real Property and Probate Section, the Kings County Womens Bar Association, and the Brooklyn Law School Alumni Association.

Property Law

• Landlord-Tenant Disputes
  RUSSELL B. LUSTHAUS, Esq., is a graduate of Brooklyn Law School, 1995, and Penn State University, 1992. He has appeared before the Supreme and Surrogate Courts in all five counties of the City of New York, as well as the Surrogate Courts of Westchester, Nassau, Suffolk and Orange counties. For the past ten years he has represented numerous clients with the Probate and Administration of Estates and Trusts, Estate and Gift and Inheritance Tax Returns, the buying and selling of Commercial and Residential real estate, and Landlord and Tenant evictions matters.

Trusts and Estates

• Estate Planning
  Mr. Lusthaus is admitted to practice before the State Courts of New York, and Florida, the Federal Eastern District Court of New York, the Federal Tax Court, and the United States Supreme Court. He is a member of the American Bar Association, Real Property and Probate Section, the Kings County Womens Bar Association, The New York State Bar Association, Probate Section and the Brooklyn Bar Association. Mr. Lusthaus has lectured before Bar Associations, Accounting Associations and insurance and medical industry groups on the need for estate planning; the proper preparation of wills and related documents; and estate tax saving devises.
• Wills
• Trusts
  LUSTHAUS & LUSTHAUS PLLC is a full service law firm focusing on the personal, business, family and financial needs of our clients. We have extensive experience in the fields of Trusts and Estates, representation of estates before the Surrogates Court, Real Property and with the preparation of the following type agreements, court related documents and tax returns.
• Power of Attorney
• Probate

Finance Law

• Foreclosure
• Tax Law