Tara S. Sinha - a Florham Park, US Estate Administration Lawyer

Florham Park Estate Administration Lawyer

Updated: 04/15/2026

Areas of Practice

Estate Administration
Estate and Probate Litigation
Estate Planning
Federal and State Taxation

Attorney Information

Overview

Tara S. Sinha focuses her practice in estate administration, estate planning, and federal and state taxation. In the administration of estates, Tara helps her clients navigate some of the most difficult periods of their lives after experiencing the death of a loved one, including dealing with the courts, financial institutions, and managing disputes among family members. Tara also assists her planning clients to achieve effective estate plans that consider effective tax administration, family goals, and management of assets, including retirement accounts and planning.

Tara’s estate and trust administration services include probating Wills, preparation of federal, New Jersey, and New York estate and inheritance tax returns, gift tax returns, effectuating post-mortem planning techniques, and asset transfers, including closely-held business interests. Tara has administered thousands of estates, ranging from relatively modest cases to estates exceeding $100 million. She also has extensive experiencing engaging with federal and state authorities in examinations and audits of federal and state estate, inheritance, and gift tax returns, focusing on issues such as inter-vivos transfers, valuation discounts, generation-skipping transfers, and use of promissory notes.

For her estate planning clients, Tara advises clients regarding the development of estate plans that consider estate and gift taxes, as well as generation-skipping transfer tax, including Wills, inter-vivos and testamentary trusts, special needs trust planning, preservation trusts, Powers of Attorney, Living Wills, and other planning techniques.

Tara has served for many years as a member of the New Jersey State Bar’s Inheritance Tax Committee and is a member of the New Jersey State Bar’s Real Property Trust and Estate Section’s Board of Consultors. She is a fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC) and has been published multiple times in the New Jersey Law Journal. She is a frequent lecturer for the New Jersey Institute of Continuing Legal Education, New York City Bar, Practicing Law Institute, and other organizations. Since 2024, Tara has been named in the Best Lawyers in America for Trusts and Estates. To learn more about the selection process of these awards please click the following - Best Lawyers of America

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Awards and Honors

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Included on the 2010 New Jersey Super Lawyers list

Past Lists

2009 New Jersey Super Lawyers list

Education

Legal Education
- Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey School of Law - Newark, Newark, New Jersey, 2002
  J.D.
  Law Journal: Women's Rights Law Reporter
- Villanova University School of Law, Villanova, Pennsylvania, 2024
  LL.M.
Non Legal Education
- Rutgers College, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 1997
  B.S.

Current Employment Position(s)

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Partner
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Past Positions

Hon. Walter R.Barisonek, J.S.C., Superior Court of New Jersey - Union County, Law Clerk, 2002 - 2003

Classes and Seminars

Estate Administration, NJ ICLE, 2013 - 2014
Estate Planning, NJ ICLE, 2015 - 2018
Let’s Write a Will, NJ ICLE, 2016 to 2018; Will Drafting Fundamentals, 2019 - 2023
Estate Planning Summer Institute, NJ ICLE, 2017 - 2023
Bridging the Gap - Estate Administration, NYC Bar, 2017 - 2019
Estate Planning College, NJ ICLE, 2019 - Present
Will Drafting Fundamentals, NJ ICLE, 2019 - 2020
Bridging the Gap - Estate Planning, PLI, 2020 - 2024

Published Works

Articles

Federal and State Law May Apply to Transfer of a Firearm to a Beneficiary, December, 2016
Addressing Estate and Gift Tax Issues in a Premarital Agreement or Divorce, New Jersey Law Journal, June, 2015
Dot Your I's and Cross Your T's, New Jersey Law Journal, May, 2011

Bar Admissions

New Jersey, 2003
U.S. District Court District of New Jersey, 2003
New York, 2020
U.S. Tax Court, 2023

Other Affiliations

American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC), Member of Employee Benefit Committee, Family Law Task Force
New Jersey State Bar Association (Inheritance Tax Committee), Board of Consultors Real Property Trust and Estate Section
Estate Planning Council of Northern New Jersey
Morris County Bar Association
Asian Pacific American Lawyers Association of New Jersey

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Florham Park, NJ

26 Columbia Turnpike
Suite 100
Florham Park, NJ 07932 - 2246

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Phone: 973-822-0220

Fax: 973-822-1188

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