You can start the process of estate planning when you want to arrange the transfer of your assets to specific heirs and other beneficiaries. This is to ensure that the proper people are provided with the legal rights to property and other assets after you pass on.
If you are seeking legal assistance with your will, contact our Greater Boston Estate Planning Lawyer today.
A Massachusetts Estate Planning Attorney can help with:
- select your heirs
- choose amount and time of distribution of inheritance to heirs
- avoid probate
- eliminate or reduce federal estate taxes
- eliminate death income taxes
- maintain control over your assets
- maintain both privacy and flexibility
- leave directions and the power to act if you are incapacitated
- leave funeral instructions
- leave organ transplant instructions
- make the administration of your estate as simple and quick to execute as possible.
These are important goals.
If you are seeking legal assistance with your will, contact our Needham MA Estate Planning Lawyer today.
Medicaid Planning
It is never too early to begin planning for nursing home care. Healthy middle-aged people can plan now to avoid emergency planning years down the road. We work with you to protect your assets and help you qualify for Medicaid.
Contact an elder lawyer from our firm to arrange a free consultation.
Protecting Your Assets
We advise clients on ways to protect assets and maintain a quality life style through methods such as:
- Irrevocable trusts
- Gifting
- Converting non-exempt assets into exempt assets
- Transferring assets
- Life estates
- Purchasing annuities and long-term care insurance
An effective Medicaid Plan also provides for the spouse that is still at home. Your children and grandchildren are the ultimate beneficiaries of your estate. What you plan for today will affect what you leave for them in the future.
If you are seeking legal assistance for your Medicaid plan, contact our Greater Boston Estate Planning Attorney today.
Serving Greater Boston and All Massachusetts:
Needham MA estate planning lawyer Attorney Alan Segal serves the Greater Boston region and all of Massachusetts in all estate planning and Will matters including the communities of Acton Agawam Amherst Andover Arlington Attleboro Barnstable Belmont Beverly Billercia Boston Braintree Bridgewater Brockton Brookline Burlington Cambridge Canton Chelmsford Chelsea Chicopee Danvers Dartmouth Dedham Dracut Easton Everett Fall River Falmouth Fitchburg Framingham Gloucester Haverhill Holyoke Lawrence Leominster Lexington Lowell Lynn Malden Marlborough Medford Melrose Metheun Milford Milton Natick Needham New Bedford Newton North Andover North Attleboro North Reading Norwood Peabody Pittsfield Plymouth Quincy Randolph Revere Salem Saugus Shrewsbury Somerville Springfield Stoughton Taunton Tewksbury Waltham Watertown Wellesley Westfield West Springfield Weymouth Woburn Worcester.
