Attorney Suzanne Sayward spoke on June 17th 2022 at the Westin Council of Aging on Estate Planning 101. She began the presentation with common estate planning documents that are important for people to know about which included: Wills, Powers of Attorney, Health Care proxies, Living Wills, HIPAA Authorizations, Trusts, Deeds with Life Estates and Declaration of Homestead.

She continued on with pertinent issues for those who already have an estate. Those included Avoiding Probate, Why not Joint ownership?, How to pay for long-term care, Eligibility for long-term Medicaid, What if no pre-planning has been done and long-term care is needed?, Life Estate Deeds, Avoiding Probate, Revocable Living Trusts, Estate Taxes and how to reduce them, What’s in a Taxable Estate, and Gift Taxes.

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Suzanne Sayward is a partner with the Dedham Massachusetts law firm of Samuel, Sayward and Baler LLC where she concentrates her practice in the areas of estate planning, estate and trust administration, elder law, and probate. She is a certified as a Elder Law Attorney (CELA) by the National Elder Law Foundation.* Attorney Sayward is a member of the Massachusetts Chapter of the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys where she served on the Board of Directors for many years and as the Chapter’s President in 2009. 

Attorney Sayward was named to Boston Magazine’s annual list of “Massachusetts Super Lawyers” for the years 2010 through 2022.