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July 18, 2018 Office News

There are two kinds of law - where you represent businesses, corporations, unions-entities, and where you represent people. 90% of my work over 41+ years has been in representing people. I can look back and see how the experience has impacted...

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July 17, 2018 Office News

Human nature. Something time shows you.  Everything from the man who called every day to get his will done; it's done, and you can't get a hold of him to get him in to sign. The people who come in for a consultation, and leave figuring...

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July 12, 2018 Office News

Want to thank Kathy for arranging a seminar at New Pond Village in Walpole recently. Many who attended had already made arrangements for their future - that's why they were in a retirement community. But re-examining instruments drafted years ago is...

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July 11, 2018 Office News

A rare legal vehicle this office is acquainted with is a petition to partition. This happened 49 times one year in  Norfolk County. It is a rare action in equity, designed to liquidate property to satisfy the demands of a joint owner wanting to cash...

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July 10, 2018 Office News

The outreach message we're hoping Kathy and others can continue to sow amongst any and all fifty (50) or older penetrates more deeply the more we run across cases where people haven't planned, waited long after a parent's death to act, or...

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July 5, 2018 Office News

We have recently started to dialogue with all the attorneys who are in the Probate Section of the Massachusetts Bar Association. We post questions to get peer feedback. One being about what your options are in filing a limited formal probate, which...

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July 4, 2018 Office News

Putting things off is the natural human tendency, and all this office can do is get help from Kathy and others to preach to people the message of the Boy Scouts - Be Prepared. So many watch the members of the family suffer pain and aggravation because...

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July 3, 2018 Office News

Had people in recently who have to deal with a niece who is, so they see it, not respecting her aunt's wishes, and acting like self will run riot. Her power comes from Health Care Proxy and a Power of Attorney.  Reviewing them shows them flawed,...

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June 28, 2018 Office News

Must report I just returned from the most valuable MCLE Seminar I have ever gone to. In 1990's, went regularly  enough to be both asked to be a panelist, to getting free courses from volunteering for Southwest Middlesex Legal Services. This...

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June 27, 2018 Office News

One of the things this office stresses is time management. Learn to work smart, then it's easier to work hard. Sharp people listen to advice. CPA showed me how to have work performed for me by people without hourly employees, and all the tax...

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