About
Ellen Makofsky has focused her exercise in Elder Law and Trusts and Estates and Probate and Estate Administration for over 1 / 4 of a century. The National Elder Law Foundation has named her a licensed elder regulation legal professional(CELA).
Ms. Makofsky is a beyond President of the National Academy of Elder Law Lawyers, New York Chapter and just completed a 3rd time period as Secretary of the New York Bar Association (NYSBA), the biggest voluntary Bar inside the United States. She served as Chair of NYSBA s Committee on Legal Education and as Co-Chair of NYSBA s Women inside the Law Committee and is Chair of the Working Group to amend the Power of Lawyer statute. Ms.Makofsky has served as a member of the Executive Committee of NYSBA for 3 phrases and served as Chair of NYSBA s Elder Law Section. Ms. Makofsky is a past president of the Estate Planning Council of Nassau County, served as a Chair of the Long Island Alzheimers Foundation Legal Advisory Board and is a member of the National Academy of Elder Law Lawyers, and a member of the Elder Law, Social Services and Health Advisory Committee of the Nassau County Bar Association. She is also one of the founders of the Senior Umbrella Network of Queens and founder of the Sun Council, Inc. She is past president of the Nassau chapter of the Gerontology Professionals of Long Island and the Senior Umbrella Network of Nassau.
Ms. Makofsky graduated cum laude from Brooklyn Law School. In 2009, she obtained an award from the NYSBA Elder Law Section for her paintings in furtherance of the rights of the elderly and the disabled. In 2010, the seventh Senatorial District of New York State named her a Woman of Distinction. Long Island Business News named her a Top 50 Woman in 2014. In 2016 Ms. Makofsky changed into commemorated by The Maurice A. Deane School of Law Center for Children, Families and the Law as an Outstanding Woman within the Law. In 2017 Ms. Makofsky obtained a Lifetime Achievement Award for Leadership in Law from Long Island Business News
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Legal Issues
- Elder Law
- Estate Planning
- Guardianship & Conservatorship, Health Care Directives, Trusts, Wills
- Probate
- Probate Administration, Probate Litigation, Will Contests
Costs
Certificates
National Academy of Elder Law Lawyers
Languages
Accepted Jurisdictions
Experience
- Principal Lawyer
Makofsky & Associates, P.C.
2015 - Managing Partner
Raskin & Makofsky
1991
Educations
Graduation year:
Graduation year: 1981
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