Joy Matak JD LLM 8 posts 0 comments

Joy Matak, JD, LLM, is a Partner at Sax, LLP and Co-Leader of the firm’s Trusts and Estates Practice. Based in the Parsippany office, she has more than 20 years of diversified experience as a wealth transfer strategist with an extensive background in providing tax services to multi-generational wealth families, owners of closely-held businesses, and high-net-worth individuals and their trusts and estates. Matak provides clients with wealth transfer strategy planning to accomplish estate planning and business succession goals. She also performs tax compliance, including gift tax, estate tax, and income tax returns for trusts and estates, and consulting services related to generation skipping including transfer tax planning, asset protection, life insurance structuring, and post-mortem planning. She has authored or co-authored articles for publications that include Tax Management Estates, Gifts and Trusts (BNA) Journal; Leimberg Information Services, Inc. (LISI); and Estate Planning Review (The CCH Journal). Matak recently co-authored a book on the new tax reform law entitled Estate Planning: Estate, Tax and Other Planning after the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017. She received a Master of Laws, Taxation, with distinction, from Georgetown University Law Center, a Juris Doctor, cum laude, from Vermont Law School, and a Bachelor of Science, Mathematics, cum laude, from Seton Hall University. She is a member of the Estate Planning Council of Northern New Jersey and the New Jersey State Bar Association.