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- Academy’s Fall Summit Virtually Perfect
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- Building Flexibility into Your Plan
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- Use the Exclusion or Lose It
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- Leaving Assets Can Be Tricky – Part 3
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- Leaving Assets Can Be Tricky
- Low-Interest Loans: An Estate Planning Technique
- Avoiding Family Chaos in the Coronavirus Age
- The Basics: Powers of Attorney for Healthcare
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- The Basics: “HIPAA” Powers
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- Economic Fallout from Coronavirus May Provide Opportunities
- Academy’s Spring Summit Virtually Perfect
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- Best Places to Retire: State Taxation
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- The SECURE Act and What It Means for You
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- How to Be a Long-Distance Caregiver
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- The Questions of Estate Planning, Part 6: Why
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- Reasons an Estate Plan Could Be Challenged: Part 1 – Formal Requirements
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- The Questions of Estate Planning, Part 4: Where
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- Continuing Legal Education in San Diego
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- The Importance of Communicating Your Plans
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- Why Crowdfunding May Cost You Medicaid Eligibility
- Many Reasons to Plan
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- ABLE Accounts
- New Estate Tax Proposal
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- Beneficiary Designations, etc., Aren’t a True Substitute for a Trust
- State Income Taxation of Nongrantor Trusts
- New Tax Proposals
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- How Much Discretion Should I Give My Trustee?
- Should I Purchase a Pre-Paid Funeral Contract?
- Giving Back
- Nongrantor Trusts Can Be Very Useful in Certain Situations
- Grantor Trusts Provide Flexibility and Ease
- Selecting an Agent
- Turning the Page on 2018 and Looking Forward to 2019
- QDRO: Not Just for Divorce Anymore
- Being Thankful and Sharing Your Blessings
- Proposed Regulations Address “Clawback” Issue
- How Are Trusts Taxed?
- Special Accounts for People with Special Needs
- Aretha Franklin Died Intestate: What Does It Mean for Her Family?
- Estate Planning is About More Tan Taxes
- Prenuptial Agreements Can Provide Remarriage Protection
- Naming a Trust as Beneficiary of an IRA
- Planning for the Client Moving Overseas
- New Asset Transfer Look-Back for VA Aid & Attendance Coming Soon: The Window of Opportunity is Closing Quickly!
- Treasury Releases New Inflation Adjustment
- Incapacity Planning
- Trusts for Privacy
- What’s a 529 Plan and What Are the Benefits to Using One?
- Estate Planning: It’s Not Just About the Estate Taxes
- Planning for Frequent Flyer Miles
- 6 Important Estate Planning Considerations – Part 6: Taxes
- Planning for the International Client
- Dead Hand Control: How Much is Too Much?
- How Are You Planning for Long-Term Care (LTC) Expenses?
- Income Tax Basis in Estate Planning – Part 2
- 6 Important Estate Planning Considerations – Part 5: Retirement Assets
- 6 Important Estate Planning Considerations – Part 4: Beneficiary Designations
- 6 Important Estate Planning Considerations – Part 3: Your Kids
- Estate Planning is Too Important to Procrastinate
- 6 Important Estate Planning Considerations – Part 2: Long-Term Care
- 6 Important Estate Planning Considerations – Part 1: Incapacity
- Retirement: It’s not Just About the Money
- Top 10 Tips by Estate Planning Lawyers
- Do I Really Need an Estate Planning Attorney to Help Create My Will?
- Woburn Asset Protection Attorneys Explain How an Irrevocable Living Trust Can Help
- Woburn Asset Protection Attorney Explains the In-Law Threat
- New Tax Law May Affect State Income Tax, Too!
- Sager Family Shows Perils of Blended Families
- Planning for Retirement Plans and IRAs: Beneficiary Designation
- Planning for Retirement Plans and IRAs: Asset Protection
- Basics of Estate Planning: IRAs
- Donor Advised Funds: IRS Issues New Ruling
- Basics of Estate Planning: Powers of Appointment – Part 2
- Woburn Trust Attorneys Explain the Grantor Retained Income Trust (GRIT)
- No Charitable Deduction in 2018?
- A Special Option for Special Kids
- Would You Prefer a Charitable Deduction This Year?
- New Year’s Greetings
- How Tax Reform Could Impact Various Families
- Tax Reform and the Estate Tax
- Basics of Estate Planning: Portability vs. Credit Shelter Trust
- Basics of Estate Planning: Portability
- Woburn Estate Planning Lawyers Explain Advanced Directives
- Londonderry Estate Planning Attorneys Explain How to Spot a Fraudulent Will
- Basics of Estate Planning: Advising Clients on Selecting Fiduciaries
- Basics of Estate Planning: Estate Planning for Major Life Events
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- Basics of Estate Planning: Two Common Mistakes with Trusts
- Basics of Estate Planning: Lack of Coordination
- Basics of Estate Planning: Choosing a Roth or Traditional IRA (or 401k)
- Law in the U.S. can be Participatory
- Basics of Estate Planning: Getting the Most out of Charitable Gifts
- Should I Split My Estate Equally Among My Children?
- Londonderry Estate Planning Lawyers Remind You to Review Your Estate Plan
- How Can Inheritance Planning Help My Loved Ones?
- Who Should Be My Trustee?
- What Happens to My Assets If I Die Intestate in Massachusetts?
- The In-Law Problem — Keeping Assets in the Family
- What Are Dynasty Trusts?
- How Do I Protect My Minor Child in My Estate Plan?
- Basics of Estate Planning: Privacy and Estate Planning
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- How an Irrevocable Trust Can Help with Asset Protection?
- What Can I Do to Avoid Paying Estate Taxes in Massachusetts?
- 5 Scenarios When You Need a Will and Estate Lawyer
- The Dangers of Using a DIY Will
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- Why You Should Appoint a Professional for Trust Administration
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- When Should You Review Your Estate Plan?
- What Is Disability Planning?
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- Choosing the Executor of a Will
- When Should You Start Estate Planning?
- Can a Special Needs Trust Help Protect My Child?
- Why the DIY Wills You Find Online Often Don’t Work As Intended
- What Is a Living Trust?
- Trust Administration – Duties and Responsibilities of a Trustee
- Estate Planning for the Unmarried
- Your First Estate Planning Consultation
- What is a Letter of Last Instructions?
- The 3 Elements that Define Estate Planning
- 3 More Estate Planning Truths
- Are the Kids Prepared for What Your Estate Planning Documents Reveal?
- Free Report: 20-Somethings Need Estate Planning, Too
- Free Report: 4 Reasons Why New Hampshire Estate Planning In Your 30s Is Important
- Same Sex Marriage and Estate Planning
- Estate Planning for the Introvert
- New Hampshire Estate Planning for the New Year
- Maryland Estate Tax Changes
- Another HIPAA Delay Makes Medical Power of Attorney Crucial
- Why the Latest Estate Tax Political Move Doesn’t Matter
- CMS Announces Finalization of 2016 Medicare Payment and Policy Updates
- Dynasty Trusts
- The Revocable Trust Isn’t a Cure All (But it’s Close)
- Free Report: Divorce and Estate Planning in New Hampshire and Massachusetts
- Changes in Capital Gains Tax?
- The Transfer of Property After Death
- Casey Kasem a Victim of Elder Abuse?
- The New Year and Charitable Remainder Trusts
- Free Report: Dynasty Trusts in Estate Planning
- 3 Costly Estate Planning Mistakes
- Inheritances and Estate Taxes in the Crosshairs
- The Role of Insurance in Estate Planning
- Retired Parents Sold my House
- Mistakes in Power of Attorney Designations
- Gifting Assets in Your Estate Plan
- Estate Planning Lessons: Celebrity Deaths 2014
- Estate Planning When You’re Single in New Hampshire
- Free Report: Can I See Your Will – What You Need To Know About Who Has Access to the Will
- Discussing End of Life Matters
- Yes, Pet Trusts are Important
- The “But” of a No Contest Clause
- Where is NH Digital Access and Digital Accounts Law?
- Options For Those Denied SSDI in New Hampshire
- Estate Planning Scams on the Rise
- Intestacy in Nashua, New Hampshire
- Londonderry Estate Planning: Tables Turn – The Dreaded Talk, but Different Terms
- Nashua Estate Planning: 401(k) May Not be the Cure All
- What Donald Sterling’s Ordeal Can Teach Individuals About Estate Planning and the High Cost of Capital Gains Taxes
- New Hampshire Estate Planning: Separating Fact from Fiction
- Placing A Child’s Name on Titles to Assets
- HIPAA and Estate Planning
- Tax Planning and Other Benefits of Post-Mortem Planning in Massachusetts
- In New Hampshire, Wills Should be Priority
- Estate Planning for NH Small Business Owners
- Estate Planning in New Hampshire
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- Planning for Incapacity in Massachusetts
- SSI and SSDI – Understanding the Difference
- Protecting Your Assets from the High Cost of Nursing Home Care
- Where Does Your City Rank among America’s Healthiest Cities?
- Holiday Scams and How to Avoid Becoming a Victim
- How to Contest a Will in New Hampshire
- Tips for Choosing a Nursing Home
- The Documents that Create Your Estate Plan
- Mediation in Elder Care
- Can the Medicare Part B Premium Hike be Halted?
- UPS Retirees Face Pension Cuts
- Maximum 401 (k) Contributions Won’t Increase in 2016
- The Changing Needs of Aging Parents
- Resolution in Massive Medicare Fraud
- Free Report: New Hampshire Advance Care Planning
- VA to Finally Pay Agent Orange Victims
- Was B.B. King Murdered?
- Living Wills and Advance Medical Directives
- The Fast Growing Telemedicine Field
- Estate Planning for the Non-Traditional Family
- Keystone XL Pipeline and the Effects on Seniors
- NH Elder Law Targets Deceitful Family Members
- 5 Ways to Use Special Needs Trusts
- Outrageous: When the Elderly Can’t Afford to Retire
- Plain English, Please: Estate Planning Legalese Explained
- Medicare Still Paying for Drugs for the Deceased
- Why a Durable Power of Attorney for Health Care is a Must
- Medicare Paying for Drugs for Deceased
- The Medicaid 5 Year Look Back Period
- The Aging in Place Movement
- A Trust for Your Pet
- Taking Precedence: Your IRA Beneficiary or Your Will?
- Jump Start Your Estate Plan
- Estate Planning Mediation
- Estate Planning and Grandchildren
- Medicaid Planning After a Dementia Diagnosis
- Another Reason for Retirement Planning
- Why are Private Nursing Homes So Expensive?
- Contesting a Will in New Hampshire
- Understanding Accelerated Death Benefits
- Reverse Mortgages: Using Your Home to Stay at Home
- Costs of Private Nursing Homes Increasing
- New Hampshire Retirement Planning: The Impact of the Recent Supreme Court Ruling on Inherited Retirement Accounts
- Differences in Medicaid and Medicare
- Your Elderly Parent, Her Doctor and His Loyalty
- The Weather and the Elderly
- Medicaid’s Long Term Coverage
- Partisan Politics Jeopardize Medicare…Again
- Medical Power of Attorney and Durable Power of Attorney
- Why Probate Matters
- New Law Creates Personal Liability to Nursing Homes
- Living Trusts and Asset Protection
- Category: GPOA
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- Category: Incapacity Planning
- Do You Have an Advance Directive?
- Can a Living Trust Protect Against Incapacity?
- When Is a Durable Power of Attorney the Best Option?
- Should You Take the Test for Early Onset Alzheimer’s?
- How Life Insurance Helps with a Terminal Illness
- North Andover Guardianship: Your Kids are Your Incentive for Early Planning
- Category: IRA & Retirement Planning
- Should Your Retirement Plan Include an IRA?
- Is Using Your 401(k) to Buy Insurance Wise?
- Staggering Statistics on Retirement Savings
- Free Report: The Role of Legacy Planning
- 64 Year Old Newlyweds & Estate Planning
- IRA Beneficiary Trusts for Children
- Londonderry Retirement Planning: Yes, Women Do Have Different Concerns
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- Understanding the New Hampshire Medicaid Minimum Monthly Maintenance Needs Allowance
- Understanding the Medicaid Transfer Penalty
- How to Plan for Long-Term Care
- Is It Too Late to Save My Assets If I Need to Qualify for Medicaid?
- 5 Things You Should Know about Medicaid
- Do You Qualify for Medicaid in New Hampshire?
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- Comparing Medicaid and Medicare
- What Is a “Community Spouse?”
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- Why Nursing Home Planning Is So Important
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- Is It Too Late to Benefit from Nashua Medicaid Planning?
- What’s the Difference between Medicaid and Medicare?
- Andover Medicaid Attorneys Explain the Spousal Impoverishment Rules
- Why Nursing Home Planning Is Important
- How Can Medicaid Attorneys Help Me Protect My Assets?
- Are You Prepared for the High Cost of Nursing Home Care?
- The Medicaid Look-Back Period Explained
- What You Need to Know about New Hampshire Medicaid Eligibility as a Senior
- What You Need to Know about Medicaid in Massachusetts
- Is a Medicaid Trust Helpful for Asset Protection?
- Will Massachusetts Medicaid Pay My Nursing Home Expenses?
- Can a Medicaid Attorney Help Me Qualify for Benefits?
- Alzheimer’s Disease– the Cost to Caregivers
- How Medicaid Planning Can Save Your Nest Egg
- Why Would You Need a Medicaid Attorney?
- Why Would You Need a Medicaid Attorney?
- Category: Medical Power of Attorney
- Category: New Hampshire Digital Assets
- Category: New Hampshire va Burial Allowances
- Category: no contest clause
- Category: powers of appointment
- Category: Probate
- How Can I Avoid Probate Disputes?
- What Are the Costs Involved in Probate?
- If an Estate Owes Federal Gift and Estate Taxes, How Do I Pay Them?
- 5 Signs Pointing to a Will Contest
- Mistakes You Can Avoid Making during Probate
- Do All Assets Go through Probate?
- Do I Need an Attorney to Help Me Probate My Mother’s Estate?
- How Long Is the Probate Process in Massachusetts?
- Tips for Avoiding Probate
- Proving Lack of Testamentary Capacity in a Will Contest
- What Should I Do with the Will When I Find It?
- Is Probate Necessary in New Hampshire If There Is No Property?
- 5 Things You Need to Know about Probate and Property
- Andover Estate Planning Lawyers — Explain the Role of Executor
- Navigating Massachusetts Probate
- How Long Does Probate Take?
- What to Expect in the Massachusetts Probate Court
- Probate Estate Assets vs. Non-Probate Assets
- What Does the Executor of a Will Do?
- What Happens If a Will Contest Is Filed during the Probate Process in Massachusetts?
- Does New Hampshire Probate Law Offer an Alternative for Small Estates?
- How Long Is the Probate Process?
- Why Avoiding Probate Is Important
- Probate in Massachusetts: Drawbacks and Benefits
- Category: Retirement
- Should I Take Early Retirement?
- How to Handle Two Generations in Retirement
- What Happens to My Retirement Account When I Die?
- New Hampshire Ranked 7th Best State for Retirees
- New Hampshire Ranked #1 Retirement Spot
- Tips for Saving Money for Retirement
- How Much Do I Need to Retire?
- Retirement Guide 101
- What You Need to Know: Medicare Open Enrollment
- What is SKI?
- The New Hampshire and Massachusetts State of Retirement in 2015
- Category: retirement planning
- Category: Special Needs
- Special Needs Planning for Grandparents
- Can Special Needs Planning Protect My Child’s Inheritance?
- How a Special Needs Trust Can Protect Government Benefits
- Residents with Special Needs or Alzheimer ’s Disease Now Have New Police Program in New Hampshire
- Billions Gone: Medicare Advantage Plans Overcharges
- Your Social Security and COLA
- DOJ Ramps Up its Online Complaint Process for Disabled
- Long Term Care Truths
- The Long Term Care Crisis in Massachusetts
- Have the Dutch Figured Out Aging in Place?
- Telehealth Enhancement Act of 2013
- Free Report: The Needs of Families With Special Needs Children
- October is National Special Needs Law Month
- Category: tax
- Category: Tax Laws
- Be Careful Relying on the Marital Deduction
- Londonderry Asset Protection Attorneys Explain How Taxes Can Diminish Your Estate’s Value
- Federal Gift and Estate Tax — Portability Explained
- The Marital Deduction Explained
- Federal Gift and Estate Tax Explained
- Do I Need to Worry about State Estate Taxes?
- New Year, New Changes in Our New Hampshire Taxes
- Category: tax planning
- Category: taxation
- Category: technology
- Category: Trust
- Category: Trust Administration
- Trust Administration Checklist for the First-Time Trustee
- Which Type of Trust Do I Need?
- Can I Be Personally Liable If I Administer a Trust?
- Do I Need an Attorney to Administer a Trust?
- Who Should Be My Trustee?
- How Are Capital Gains Taxed In An Irrevocable Trust?
- How Can an Incentive Trust Help Me?
- How Much Does a Trustee Get Paid?
- When Does a New Hampshire Trust Terminate?
- Why Would I Create an Intentionally Defective Trust?
- What Does It Mean to Be a Trustee?
- Can I Refuse the Job of Trustee?
- If I Am the Beneficiary of a Trust Can I Get the Trustee Replaced?
- 5 Things to Know When Creating a Trust
- Estate Administration – Will vs. Trust
- Category: Uncategorized
- Top 5 VA Benefits
- Leaving Behind Your Legacy
- What Does a Living Trust Do for You?
- Can a Trust Attorney Be My Trustee?
- Seniors, Elderly Face Financial Hardships
- Controversial Right to Die Bill Becomes Law
- Our Family Pets and Pet Trusts
- Fearing the Unknown: Social Security Myths
- Financial and Estate Planning Essentials
- Strict Rules in Estate Planning
- Understanding SSDI and SSI
- New Gov’t Website for Aging Americans
- Irrevocable Funeral Trusts
- Financial Abuse on the Rise Among the Elderly
- What is Adult Daycare?
- 5 New Hampshire Estate Planing Must – Haves
- Category: Will
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- ESTATE PLANNING AND ASSET PROTECTION
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- ESTATE PLANNING AND ASSET PROTECTION
- ESTATE PLANNING AND ASSET PROTECTION
- ESTATE PLANNING AND ASSET PROTECTION
- ESTATE PLANNING AND ASSET PROTECTION
- ESTATE PLANNING AND ASSET PROTECTION
- ESTATE PLANNING AND ASSET PROTECTION
- ESTATE PLANNING AND ASSET PROTECTION
- ESTATE PLANNING AND ASSET PROTECTION
- ESTATE PLANNING AND ASSET PROTECTION
- ESTATE PLANNING AND ASSET PROTECTION
- ESTATE PLANNING AND ASSET PROTECTION
- ESTATE PLANNING AND ASSET PROTECTION
- ESTATE PLANNING AND ASSET PROTECTION