News from Samuel, Sayward & Baler LLC for January 2018 includes the articles: Ask SSB, Five Things a Well-structured Estate Plan Can Do For Your Children, Ageing in Place, The Opioid Crisis and Estate Planning, and What’s New at Samuel, Sayward & Baler LLC.
September 2017 Newsletter
News from Samuel, Sayward & Baler LLC for September 2017 includes the articles: Ask SSB, Five Facts to Know about Irrevocable Trusts, What Surprises and Worries Retirees?, Long-Term Care Planning Update and What’s New at Samuel, Sayward & Baler LLC.
June 2017 Newsletter
News from Samuel, Sayward & Baler LLC for June 2017 includes the articles: Five Ways to Make Sure Health Care Wishes are Carried Out, Dementia Friendly Massachusetts, Protecting your Child’s Inheritance from the Reach of a Divorcing Spouse, Long-Term Care Insurance Update, Calling all New Parents, and What’s New at Samuel, Sayward & Baler LLC.
February 2017 Newsletter
News from Samuel, Sayward & Baler LLC for Febraury 2017 includes the articles: Five (Good) Reasons to Treat your Children Differently in Your Estate Plan, Employer Sponsored Retirement Plans: What You Need to Know, MassHealth Update, We Get Around, SSB Partners with Honoring Choices, Spreading Some Holiday Cheer and What’s New at Samuel, Sayward & Baler LLC.
SSB Partners with Honoring Choices
Samuel, Sayward & Baler recently joined with Honoring Choices as a Community Partner. The mission of Honoring Choices is to help individuals make their health care wishes known and to ensure those wishes are carried out. As a Community Partner, SSB will help adults in our area make their health care wishes known through the creation of Health Care Proxies and medical directives, and by creating Durable Powers of Attorney that will enable a trusted individual to handle their financial affairs if they are unable to act for themselves. We look forward to working with Honoring Choices and their other Community Partners in this endeavor.
March 2017
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We Get Around
Our attorneys have been out and about in the community, speaking about the importance of estate planning and continuing our education series on matters related to our practice areas.
In November, all of our attorneys attended the Massachusetts Bar Association’s day-long Probate Law Conference, which is always an informative event. This year’s highlights included the Probate Court’s move toward electronic filing of probate documents and further clarification of the best way to ensure clear title to real estate passing through the probate estate. Additionally, Attorney Greenfield chaired the annual Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education Program, “The MassHealth Process from Application to Approval,” in Boston.
In December, Attorney Baler gave a presentation on Powers of Attorney at the Westwood Senior Center in conjunction with our new community partner, the Honoring Choices program (see separate article on this program). Attorney Greenfield testified at a public hearing in Worcester regarding changes to proposed MassHealth regulations (see article on proposed changes).
February 2017
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