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Preserving Wealth, Defining Your Legacy & Achieving Peace of Mind I am a trust and estate attorney. I empower clients to preserve wealth through estate and business planning strategies that will fulfill their wishes for family and heirs. Clients appreciate my helping them to make informed legal choices that are aligned with their personal and business goals, and that deliver peace of mind. I concentrate my practice on business and personal taxation issues, including domestic and international estate planning, the administration of trusts and estates, closely-held business planning, and issues affecting the elderly. As a trust and estate attorney I advise clients on estate planning techniques aimed at ensuring that assets pass to the intended beneficiaries, while minimizing the state and federal tax burdens by creating charitable trusts and foundations, planned gifting programs, and drafting wills, trusts, powers of attorney and living wills. As an elder law attorney I handle general estate planning issues and counsel clients about planning for incapacity, and assist clients in planning for possible long-term care needs, including nursing home care, and assist with coordinating private and public resources to finance the cost of care. I also counsel closely-held corporations including high-tech companies and other businesses on a variety of issues including tax strategies and succession planning.

Leslie Wizelman's principal areas of practice are Elder Law, Asset Protection and Life Care Planning, Special Needs Planning, Estate Planning and Administration. She has practiced law in Wyalusing, Bradford County since 1983 and has a second office near Towanda, in Wysox, Pennsylvania. Ms. Wizelman is a Certified Elder Law Attorney (CELA) by the National Elder Law Foundation. She is a charter member and officer of the Pennsylvania Association of Elder Law Attorneys (PAELA) and a member of the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys (NAELA). She is past Chair of the Pennsylvania Bar Association's Elder Law Section and a member of the Section's Council. She is a member of the Life Care Planning Law Firms Association. She also is a VA accredited attorney for the preparation of claims before the Department of Veterans Affairs. Leslie Wizelman received her B.A. from Dickinson College (summa cum laude, 1976) and her J.D. from Cornell Law School (cum laude, 1981). She is a member of Phi Beta Kappa. Ms. Wizelman served on the U.S. Congressional House Select Committee on Assassinations, 1977-1979, and is a member of Bradford County, Pennsylvania and American Bar Associations. She is admitted to practice in Pennsylvania, New York, and Florida. Ms. Wizelman is a frequent lecturer to healthcare professionals, retirement groups, and other professional organizations on the rights of the elderly, long term care planning, living wills and trusts, and estate planning.