Like so many other areas of modern life, estate planning requires the knowledge and skill of a professional. Therefore, the most important step you can take in this process is choosing your estate planning attorney carefully, based on excellent credentials, testimonials, and personal recommendations. As you will see if you do careful...
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Huffington Post Article: My Wife Of 51 Years Died. Here’s What I Learned About Grief That I Never Knew Before.
"I thought I was prepared for the death of someone I’d loved for more than half a century. I wasn’t."
By Richard Toth
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It was late August, a Monday evening. After supper, we took our mugs of tea out to the patio. We watched...
A New Baby Changes Everything, Even Your Estate Plan
As every parent knows, a new baby changes everything -- not only your daily routine, your sleep patterns, and your center of focus, but how you view the future that now includes this wonderful new person. Lots of alterations have to be made to your home, your car, and the essential documents...
AARP Article: How to Be a Good Executor of a Will or Estate
What to know about managing someone's final wishes
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by Sharon Waters, AARP
The wave of people prompted by the COVID-19 pandemic to write their wills is creating yet another wave in estate planning: all the people being asked to one day put those wills into effect.
What About Medicare?
There is a great deal of confusion about Medicare and Medicaid
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Medicare is the federally funded and administered health insurance program primarily designed for individuals age 65 or older. There are limited long-term care benefits that are available under Medicare. In general, if you are enrolled in a...
Estate Planning for Singles
In the recent past, it has become increasingly common for people to decide to remain single, whether as young adults, divorcé(e)s, widows, or widowers. Fortunately, in this day and age, this is a perfectly reasonable, acceptable decision.
At Surprenant & Beneski, P.C., we have extensive experience planning the estates...
Think you don’t need asset protection? Think again.
One of the rumors that seem to continue to grow on the estate planning grapevine is that you only need asset protection if you are a high-net-worth individual. In fact, the opposite is sometimes true because those with high assets typically have been well-advised to keep their assets safe.
Beware: Deed Scam!
Pass the word to those who need to hear it. Across the United States, official-looking letters are convincing homeowners to pay for documents to certify the obvious — that they own their homes. Homeowners who send payments in response to these letters are not receiving the documents for which they paid.
Estate Planning for an Inheritance or a Windfall
While much of estate planning is designed to protect us from the negative impact of misfortunes like incapacity or premature death, keen estate planning attorneys are just as concerned with protecting us if we hit the jackpot. If you reside in Southeastern Massachusetts or on Cape Cod, the accomplished attorneys of...
Kiplinger Article: What a Beneficiary Controlled Trust Can Do to Protect Your Legacy After You Are Gone
Life is messy sometimes. Divorce, bankruptcies and lawsuits happen, and they can potentially wipe out the inheritance you’ve carefully set aside for your loved ones. But there are many trust options to help keep life from ruining your legacy.
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Many estate planners believe that their job is done...