One interesting thing is that you may find reviews on our website, Facebook, Google +, or AVVO that are from people in Arizona, Florida, Texas, etc. That's because the probate estate in question is in Massachusetts. An Arizona woman negotiated a...

The older you get, the more acquainted you are with death. It was my mother who used to read the obituaries. I glanced at them. Get nervous when I see so many of people younger than me. I Gallup Polled some people and found out most people attend 3-4...

Beware of estate contests. Some irresponsible, greedy relative petitions to run the estate. Your client objects, offers proof and files their own petition. The court may step in, appoint someone, and, if experience is any indication, its out of...

Last week I had the chance to offer advice worth $600,000. That's what was at stake in claiming monies between a step-spouse and six children who had proof the stepmom had said she made no claim on it. I proposed a way for the family to avoid the...

Beware of your marital situation. What if you're 80, married 4 years to someone 75? If you die without a will, she gets 50%. You have 5 kids. Is that what you want? Could it be that you've now received a place where your competence to draft...

To give advice you need to learn. With knowledge comes the ability to provide answers with insight. Signed up to take MCLE Estate Planning Symposium and MCLE Basics Plus Estate Planning. Within those, all the probate variations are discussed...

Listing our cases shows the office is moving forward in its hope to create that ferris wheel of probate matters. The procedure involved can be formatted into a board game. We help you move your piece across. There's is no better advertising than a...

It is important to note the proliferation of Legal Zoom type sites, advocating forms for cheaper prices that you can use to draft your own will, trust, or whatever. Be careful. This office dealt with three people who had used them; and the instruments...

The docket number of a case tells you just how many cases of that variety have been filed within the year. It reaches to the thousands. Even with health bringing advancing age, a scan of the obituaries shows no one is guaranteed 63, 59, 48 or more...

The more you study probate administration, the more you see that it is an area of law that passes largely unnoticed. Unless there's a story in the paper about a big will contest, or regarding the estate of someone like Aaron Hernandez. But it...