Medicaid Planning
Join us Tuesday, September 12 as Kristin Luce leads a discussion regarding Medicaid qualification guidelines, asset protection and planning opportunities.
Ms. Luce joined Coughlin & Gerhart, LLP in 2007 and is a partner with the firm. She is chair of the
firm’s Trusts & Estates Practice Group. Ms. Luce’s practice is concentrated in the areas of Estate
Planning, Trust & Estate Administration, Guardianships, Adoptions, Litigated Estate Matters, and Real
Estate. She practices in the firm’s main office, as well as the Owego branch office. She has been selected
as a Rising Star among New York lawyers for Estate Planning from 2013 – 2018 by Upstate New York
Super Lawyers magazine. In 2017 Ms. Luce was named in the 24th Edition of the Best Lawyers in
America® in the practice area of Trust & Estates. Ms. Luce has been given this award every year since
2017 (for the Best Lawyers in America© for Trust & Estates).
Ms. Luce is a current member of the Broome County and New York State Bar Associations. She is a
member of the New York Bar Association’s Elder Law and Special Needs Section. Ms. Luce previously
served on the Board of Directors to the local American Automobile Association (AAA) Club. She is a
past Co-Chair of the Broome County Bar Association’s Young Lawyers Committee. She served on the
Board of Directors for the Mothers and Babies Perinatal Network (April 2008 – February 2016) and is a
former member of the Owego Rotary. In 2014 and again in 2018 Ms. Luce was appointed by the Town
Board of the Town of Binghamton to an interim position of Acting Town Justice.
