Some people may want to avoid probate because, during the probate process, information that one may want to keep private becomes public. The following are some approaches that may allow probate to be avoided, however, each may have unintended repercussions, consequently, involve a professional prior
It seems that most every day in my office is Memorial Day. Not the one where you dust off deck chairs, fill propane tanks and enjoy a hard earned day off, but the one for remembering the dead. As a probate lawyer in Massachusetts I
It seems that most every day in my office is Memorial Day. Not the one where you dust off deck chairs, fill propane tanks and enjoy a hard earned day off, but the one for remembering the dead. As a probate lawyer in Massachusetts I
The other day I was asked how I became and elder law lawyer that handles real estate and probate matters. I responded in the usual manner that my father was a trial lawyer and my mother a nurse at a Massachusetts nursing home and I
The point of probate is to establish the veracity of legal documents – your will is not your will until and unless it is presented to the public as a whole. This is done to prove whether it was signed the right way, you were
A few months back by barber because seriously ill. Since I get my haircut about once every 6 weeks or so, I happened to come to the barber shop at the beginning of the "bad news cycle" that the other barbers in the shop had
Practicing in the area of probate law in Massachusetts exposes me to so many good people. Well, most all of my clients and their families are good. It’s their relatives that cause all the problems. Over several years of practice I have developed a set
After a person dies, many companies and other institutions often need to be notified: insurance companies, Social Security, banks, to name a few. But sometimes institutions can be quite insensitive or even incapable of dealing with the concept of death. A leading nationwide bank charged
My law firm handles a large number of mortgage closings and probate administrations. Honestly, it is quite monotonous, dull work. We input information into the computer and the computer spits out all the magic documents. Then we do it again, and again, and again. As
Some people may want to avoid probate because, during the probate process, information that one may want to keep private becomes public. The following are some approaches that may allow probate to be avoided, however, each may have unintended repercussions, consequently, involve a professional prior
It seems that most every day in my office is Memorial Day. Not the one where you dust off deck chairs, fill propane tanks and enjoy a hard earned day off, but the one for remembering the dead. As a probate lawyer in Massachusetts I
It seems that most every day in my office is Memorial Day. Not the one where you dust off deck chairs, fill propane tanks and enjoy a hard earned day off, but the one for remembering the dead. As a probate lawyer in Massachusetts I
The other day I was asked how I became and elder law lawyer that handles real estate and probate matters. I responded in the usual manner that my father was a trial lawyer and my mother a nurse at a Massachusetts nursing home and I
The point of probate is to establish the veracity of legal documents – your will is not your will until and unless it is presented to the public as a whole. This is done to prove whether it was signed the right way, you were
A few months back by barber because seriously ill. Since I get my haircut about once every 6 weeks or so, I happened to come to the barber shop at the beginning of the "bad news cycle" that the other barbers in the shop had
Practicing in the area of probate law in Massachusetts exposes me to so many good people. Well, most all of my clients and their families are good. It’s their relatives that cause all the problems. Over several years of practice I have developed a set
After a person dies, many companies and other institutions often need to be notified: insurance companies, Social Security, banks, to name a few. But sometimes institutions can be quite insensitive or even incapable of dealing with the concept of death. A leading nationwide bank charged
My law firm handles a large number of mortgage closings and probate administrations. Honestly, it is quite monotonous, dull work. We input information into the computer and the computer spits out all the magic documents. Then we do it again, and again, and again. As
