The Fedele Law Group PLLC

Focus and practice areas

The firm works across three connected areas: estate planning, elder law, and real estate. The Fedele Law Group PLLC is based in Melville, New York, on Long Island, and it keeps two more offices in Hauppauge and Nassau County. That grouping tends to follow the same clients over time, since a person who signs a will in their fifties may need Medicaid guidance in their eighties and a home sale somewhere in between.

In my opinion the pairing of estate planning with real estate is a practical one for a family office.Property is often a major asset a person owns, so the lawyers who draft the trust can also handle the deed when the house changes hands. The firm covers both residential and commercial real estate, which widens the range of clients it can take on.

What the estate and elder law work covers

The estate planning side runs to wills, trusts, powers of attorney, and asset protection. A will directs where property goes after death, while a trust can hold and manage assets during life and after it, often to keep matters out of court. A power of attorney lets someone act on another person's behalf, which becomes important if illness or age makes self-management hard.

The firm also handles retirement planning, special needs planning, and business succession planning. Special needs planning aims to provide for a relative with a disability while keeping public benefits intact. Business succession planning maps how a company passes to the next owners, an issue many small firms put off until late.

Elder law brings in Medicaid applications and planning, guardianships, and estate administration. Medicaid long-term care applications in New York involve a financial lookback and detailed proof of assets and transfers, so this is document-heavy work that rewards early planning. Guardianship cases go before a court when an adult can no longer manage personal or financial affairs, and a judge decides who holds that authority.

Probate and estate administration

Probate and probate litigation are part of the firm's work as well. In New York, probate runs through the Surrogate's Court in the county where the person lived. The court admits the will, appoints an executor, and then oversees the settling and distribution of the estate. When relatives contest a will or the choice of executor, the matter turns into litigation, and the firm names that as a separate track.

Estate administration covers the same closing-out of a person's affairs when there is no will to guide it. State law then sets who inherits and in what shares. As a reviewer, I read the presence of both planning and administration under one roof as a sign the firm can follow a matter it drafted through to its final court steps.

Real estate the firm handles

The firm represents buyers, sellers, and investors, along with fiduciaries such as executors and trustees who sell property held by an estate. New York is a state where attorneys typically handle residential closings, so a lawyer reads the contract, checks the title, and sees the transfer through. That places a real estate practice naturally beside an estate one. Commercial transactions and residential closings both fall within the firm's scope.

The fiduciary angle ties back to the estate work. An executor selling a family home needs counsel who can read both the sale contract and the estate that owns the property, and the firm keeps both skills on staff.

Investors and commercial clients bring their own needs, such as a purchase held in a company name or a lease reviewed before signing. The firm lists commercial work alongside residential, so a first-time buyer and a small business owner both fit its client base.

How the team is built

The site names four attorneys. Michael J. Fedele carries the firm's current name. Tiffany Ghicas is listed as an attorney, and Vivian Garrastegui holds an Of Counsel role, which usually signals an ongoing advisory tie to the firm. Patrick J. Mulhern, Jr. is listed as retired.

Garrastegui's name also appears in the firm's former identity, Schneider Garrastegui and Fedele PLLC, which points to continuity between the old firm and the new one. The site does not publish individual biographies, law schools, or bar admission years, so a prospective client would want to ask about each lawyer's background at a first meeting.

A change of name, languages, and reach

The firm states that it was previously known as Schneider Garrastegui and Fedele PLLC and adopted The Fedele Law Group PLLC as of January 1, 2026. The home page frames this as a rebrand of an existing firm, so the name is new while the attorneys and files carry forward.

Staff and attorneys work in English and Spanish, and the firm uses the line "Hablamos español" across its pages. In estate and elder law, where clients talk through money, health, and family in close detail, a shared language removes a real barrier at the table.

The three offices give the firm points of contact in different parts of Long Island. Melville is the main location, with satellites in Hauppauge and in Nassau County. The firm's clients come from communities across the region: Merrick, Massapequa, Baldwin, Levittown, Lindenhurst, Bethpage, Rockville Centre, Huntington, and Northport. Its work reaches into both Nassau and Suffolk counties.

How the directory classifies the work

The directory uses nine practice labels for the firm. Some describe broad fields, while others identify a particular document or proceeding within those fields. Wills and powers of attorney each receive their own labels under the wider estate planning category. Probate also appears separately, which gives readers a direct route to the firm when a death has already occurred and a court matter may be required.

The elder law categories follow a similar pattern. Elder law appears as the broad entry, while Medicaid and long-term care planning has a more precise label. Guardianship and conservatorship share another category. The conservatorship reference adds a term that prospective clients may use when looking for help with authority over another person's affairs, even though the firm's description more often uses guardianship.

Real estate appears at two levels as well. The record includes a general real estate category and a separate residential real estate category. This structure makes the residential work visible as a defined part of the practice while retaining the broader classification that also covers the firm's stated commercial transaction work. As a directory entry, the layered categories help distinguish the firm's general fields from the particular matters that may prompt someone to contact counsel.

Main office and contact details

The complete main office address in the record is 135 Pinelawn Road, Suite 250s, Melville, New York. The suite number is useful because the shorter directory address lists only the street. The firm's website is fedelelaw.com, and the telephone number is (631) 519-9831.

The source record displays that telephone number twice, once with parentheses and once with hyphens. Both versions contain the same digits and refer to a single contact number. For someone preparing an initial inquiry, the directory's detailed matter labels provide practical terms for identifying the reason for the call. A caller can state whether the matter concerns a particular estate document, a Medicaid or long-term care issue, a conservatorship question, or a residential property transaction. Those descriptions track the categories attached to the listing and can help direct the inquiry to the relevant part of the practice.