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- Artificial Conception: Legal Issues Addressed during Artificial Insemination or In-vitro Fertilization
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- Asset Protection Planning: Strategies for saving your money from nursing home expenses
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- Batter-up: Stepping up to the Plate - Estate Planning for Men
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- Borderline Tax and Estate Planning: Know the Rules — and the Numbers — Before Making Your Move
- Brewing Elder Abuse - A Recipe For Disaster
- Bullying in the Workplace: Legislation Seeks to Protect Workers from Abuse, Harassment
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- Business Credit - How to Get It - A "Snapshot" That's in Focus and a Solid Business Plan Are Some of the Keys
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- Buying a Restaurant? - Prior Due-Diligence Will Facilitate the Deal
- By All Accounts - Payable - Whom Do You Pay First When Cash Gets Tight?
- Call Your Lawyer: Don’t Put Off Estate Planning for Your College-aged Children
- Calm Before the Storm - Dealing with Secured Lenders When Times Become Tough
- Capital Idea: Changes in the Law Greatly Benefit Those Selling Their Homes
- Capital Ideas - Business Financing in a Rising-interest-rate Environment
- Caregiver Stress – The Next Epidemic?
- Caregiver Stress the Next Epidemic
- Caregiver stress: Could this become the next epidemic? June 2020
- Caregiver Stress: It’s Real, and Its Impact Can Be Severe; How to Avoid the Epidemic
- Caring for the Caregiver: A Real Dilemma Families Face in an Age of Living Longer
- Caring for Your Ailing or Aging Parent - Personal and Financial Ramifications
- Caring for Your Ailing or Aging Parent – Know and Fully Understand the Personal and Financial Ramifications
- Caring long distance—a practical checklist
- Cases in Point - 2009 Disability and Discrimination Lawsuits Provide Powerful Lessons
- Cases in Point - Recent Discrimination Developments in Employment Law Provide Poignant Lessons
- Caught in the Web? Beware Your Email Becoming A Binding Contract
- Cautionary Contemporary Estate Planning Tales - Learning Our Lessons from the Rich and Famously Departed
- Changed Ice and Snow Removal Laws: Property Owners Beware!
- Chapter and Verse - New Bankruptcy Law Changes the Rules of the Road
- Charitable Giving and Medicaid Issues
- Charitable giving: You can still do good in a time of uncertainty October 2020
- Choose Your Entity
- Class Action Reform - Will You Be Affected?
- Cliff Notes — A 2013 Tax Update — What’s Changed, and What Hasn’t
- Co-owning Property with Your Spouse or Children - How To Chose the Right Type of Ownership
- Cohabitation - The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
- Collaborative Law - Alternative Dispute Strategy Is a Dignified Alternative to Litigation
- Collector’s Primer: planning for the continuation of your cache
- Combating the Physician Shortage - Physician-recruiting Programs Must Be Properly Developed - And Managed
- Consider the Basics Before Contesting a Will
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- Corporate America's Glass Ceiling - Discrimination with Regard to Pay and Promotions Affects An Entire Family
- Cost/Benefit Analysis: Thinking About Moving Your Business Financing Across the Street?
- Crafting Severance Agreements - A Well-designed Document Can Help Employers Avoid Lawsuits
- Creating an estate plan for a beloved pet
- Crosses to Bear: Health Care Proxies and How Religious Beliefs May Affect Them
- Crunch Time? - Lenders Tighten the Reins on Mortgage Loans
- Custody of a Special-needs Child: Sometimes, It’s Better to Focus on Quality Parent Time, Not Quantity
- Death with Dignity – Should a Patient Be Entitled to Exercise a Right to Die?
- Death Without the Estate Tax?
- December 2018 It's Not To Late to Make a Tax Plan
- Decisions, Decisions: An Employment Case-law Update
- Deed with Life Estate
- Deed With Life Estate
- Deed with Life Estate: Understanding the Pros and Cons of This Handy Estate-planning Tool
- Demystifying Death: Steps to Take from the Funeral Home Right Through to Probate
- Demystifying Probate - The Probate Process, Step-By-Step
- Demystifying the Health Care Proxy
- Designating Beneficiaries
- Designating Beneficiaries: A Critical Step to Allocating Your Assets as You Desire
- Developmental Delay or Disability? Making Early Identification of Your Child’s Special Needs
- Digital Assets and Your Estate Plan
- Do You Need a Trust?
- Do You Need a Trust? - Perhaps to Your Surprise, the Answer Is Probably ‘Yes’
- Does My Child Need Guardianship?
- Dollars and Sense - How to Negotiate a Pre-foreclosure Workout Agreement
- Dollars and Sense: Is This the Right Time to Refinance Your Mortgage?
- Don't Be a D/B/A - A Litigator's Warning to the Unincorporated Health Care Practitioner
- Don't Get Caught in the Web - Be Careful What You Post on MySpace, YouTube, and Other Sites
- Don’t Fall into Common Traps: An Employer’s Obligations to Sick and Disabled Employees
- Don’t Let Care Costs Deplete Your Estate
- Down in Black and White - The Latest Word on Company Handbooks
- Eeny Meeny Miney Moe? - Taking the Guesswork Out of Choosing an Attorney
- Effective Planning to Transition a Business
- Elder Abuse - Unveiling the Dirty Little Secret
- Elder Abuse—Could you spot the signs?
- Elderly Drivers: an Age-old Problem - How To Tell Your Loved One That It’s Time to Hand Over the Keys
- Elders and Driving: The Delicate Balance Between Safety and Independence
- Eliminating Guesswork: Effective Legal Planning for People with Alzheimer’s Disease
- Eminent Domain - Ruling Blurs the Line Between Public Use and Private Economic Development
- Employee BlackBerry Use - What Is Private, and What Is Employer-accessible?
- Employers - The Allowance Of Same-Sex Marriages Affects You Too!
- Employers, Take Notice: Changes in Federal and State Laws, Regulations Bear Watching
- Employment at Will - A Workplace Reality - Few People Comprehend the Meaning of Their Work Status
- End of the Year Tax Strategy - Charitable Planning
- Establish an Estate Plan Before Your Trip
- Establish an Estate Plan Before Your Trip
- Estate Planning - The Four Documents You Really Can’t Afford to be Without
- Estate Planning 2013: Changes That May Affect You
- Estate Planning Checkup
- Estate Planning Concerns for Women
- Estate Planning for Women
- Estate Planning from the Male Perspective
- Estate Planning in Blended Families Considerations for Couples with Children from Previous Relationships
- Estate Planning in the Digital Age
- Estate Planning in the Digital Age: Make Sure Your Heirs Can Access Your Online Information
- Estate Planning Myths Explained
- Estate Planning Myths Explained 2017
- Estate planning myths: know the facts to avoid these pitfalls
- Estate Planning: Not Just for Elders You Should Prepare Now to Prevent Future Problems
- Estate plans—don’t leave home without one
- Estate Tax Update
- Estate-planning Myths Explained - To Avoid Problems, Separate Facts from Assumptions
- Ethical Wills - Bequeath Your Values Along With Your Valuables
- Ethical Wills – Bequeathing Life’s Lessons
- Ethical Wills Document Allows You to Bequeath More than Material Possessions
- Ethical Wills—Bequeathing Life’s Lessons
- Ethical wills—bequeathing life’s lessons
- Ethical Wills: Bequeathing Life’s Lessons, Dreams, and Hopes
- Expecting Mom? Expecting Dad? - How Much Leave Should You Expect?
- Explore Your Options: Many Alternative and Supplemental Financing Sources Exist for Business
- Factors In Determining Whether To Incorporate
- Fair Questions - Making a Case for Effectively Contesting a Will Isn't Easy
- Fear And Loathing Of The Punch List Organization And Preparation Can Help Avoid Costly Disputes
- February 2019 The reverse mortgage—is it for you?
- Finances and Alzheimer’s Disease: There Are Many Such Matters Involved with ‘the Long Goodbye’
- Financing - It's Not All About Interest
- Financing Your Business: Look Beyond Interest Rates And Consider The Global Picture
- Financing: It's Not All About Interest Rates - There Are Many Factors that Determine if a Loan Package Works for You
- Five Steps To Follow On The Path Of Long Term Care Planning
- Food For Thought - The Matter Of Personal Liability For Restaurant Debt
- For Good Measure Autism Insurance Legislation: What It Means For Your Child
- For the Love of Your Partner . . . Plan Now
- For the love of your partner include these documents in your estate
- For the love of your partner include these documents in your estate pdf
- For the love of your partner, plan now 2018
- Forestalling Foreclosures - Is There a Solution to This Regional and National Problem?
- Four steps to choosing an attorney
- Four steps to choosing an attorney
- Fraternization, Romance, and Liability - Reasons to Tighten Up Your Employee Handbook Right Now
- From Bootstraps to Banking - There are Many Ways to Finance a Startup Business
- Gazette-January-2015
- Getting Paid for Your Work
- Gina Barry recently founded The Joy of Jasper
- Givers Gain - Use Charitable Giving to Your Advantage
- Givers Gain Charity And Your Taxes
- Givers Gain: Use charitable giving to your advantage
- Givers Gain: Use charitable giving to your advantage
- Giving Them the Business: Ensuring a Smooth Transition When It's Time
- Giving Them the Business? Make a Plan
- Good Grief
- Good grief: Plan now to lessen the burden on loved ones August 2020
- Good Grief!
- Good Grief! - How To Properly Prepare Your Family To Handle Your Death
- Good News for Landlords - Bankruptcy Law Revisions Make it Easier to Evict
- Good News for Landlords - Bankruptcy Law Revisions Make it Easier to Evict-2006
- Guardians And Conservators: Who are They? What Do They Do? Can You Avoid Them?
- Halt! Who Goes There? - Stopping Identity Thieves in Their Tracks
- Handing over the Reins - Succession Planning for Businesses Poses Challenges
- Health Care Proxies and Durable Powers of Attorney: Most People Fail to Plan for the Threat of Incapacity Despite Real Need
- Health Care Proxies and Powers of Attorney - Providing Your Voice When You Are Unable to Speak for Yourself
- Health Community Based Services - Understanding The Qualifications And Requirements Of The Many Available Options
- Helping The Grandkids With College Costs
- High-Tech Startup Businesses in a Recession - Why now is the right time for opportunistic entrepreneurs
- HIPAA: Understanding Its Effect on the Medical Community - and the Patient Since 1996
- Holiday season tax planning: Make the time to consider your options
- Holiday season tax planning: Make the time to consider your options
- Home Repair Following the Tornadoes: The Art of Finding a Contractor and Dealing with Your Insurer
- Home Sweet Home - Reverse Mortgages Can Keep You from Becoming Institutionalized
- Homestead Declaration Sweet Homestead Declaration
- How To Avoid Guardianship
- How to Hire a Lawyer - The Yellow Pages Is Not the Place to Begin a Search
- I'll Trade You? - Avoiding Taxes Through Like Kind Exchanges
- Identifying the Perfect Location - Many Factors Go into the Process of Choosing a Site for Your Business
- If You Should Die Before You Wake, Whom Do You Pray Your Estate to Take?
- In Sickness and in Health - Long-term Care Costs Force Tough Choices
- In the Post 9/11 World, Do You Know Who Your Employees Really Are?
- Insurance and Autistic Children: Update to ARICA Is Changing the Picture for Many Families
- Intimate Partner Violence - A Dangerous Little Secret
- IRS Form 1099 Explained: Know the Requirements in Order to Remain in Compliance
- Is an IDIOT Trust Ever a Smart Choice?
- Is It Time to Update the Estate Plan? - Consider These Triggering Events to Avoid Potentially Disastrous Results
- Is This The Time To Fight? When Divorce Is Complicated By Serious Medical Concerns
- Issues of Time and Space: Navigating the Minefield of Long-distance Caregiving
- It's a Sour Subject - Understanding the Bay State's Various Lemon Laws
- It’s Not Too Late to Make a Tax Plan
- It’s not too late to slash your tax bill
- It’s That Time of Year Again: Careful Review, Renegotiation of Your Child’s IEP Is Critical
- January 2019 Resolve to review your estate plan
- July 2018 Put Estate Planning on Your Travel Checklist
- July 2019 The Homestead Declaration: Simple protection for your most valuable asset
- June 2018 Caregiver Stress the Next Epidemic
- June 2019 Keeping the Court Out of Your Decisions
- Just two documents: These tools help smooth crucial decisions
- Keeping the Court Out of Your Decisions
- Keeping the Court Out of Your Personal Decisions
- Know the Rules: What You Need To Know About Medical Records in Massachusetts
- Legal Practice: Law Students and Graduates Gain Valuable Experience as Clerks
- Lessons in Employer Liability: What to Take Away from the Sexual-abuse Scandal at Penn State
- License to Chill - 'Tis the Season for Liquor-serving Establishments to Act Responsibly
- Lien and Mean - How a Contractor's Failure to Pay Bills Can Become Your Liability
- Lien and Mean - How To Protect Your Property During a Construction Project
- Lien and Mean - Knowing the Rules Can Help Ensure That You Get Paid for Your Work
- Life Changes Affect Your Estate Plan - Make Sure Your Assets Are Allocated to Suit Your Life Changes and Situations
- Life Insurance and Children with a Disability
- Life Insurance on a Child with Special Needs: Benefits and Challenges
- Light at the End of the Tunnel - Often, Bankruptcy Isn't the End, but the Beginning - of a Turnaround
- Limiting the Damage - Steps Taken Now Can Lighten Your Tax Burden Later
- Liquor License Lessons
- Long term care: Strategies to plan for the costs
- Long term care: Strategies to plan for the costs, Prime, November 1, 2019
- Long-Term Care for Elderly - Facing the Future
- Long-term Care Insurance - How to Protect Your Nest Egg and Provide for Your Care
- Looking Good - on Balance - How to Make Your Business a Better Candidate for Financing
- Make “Good Grief” Your Final Gift to Family, Friends
- Male Perspective Estate Planning
- March 2018 Caring long distance a practical checklist
- March 2019 Ethical wills—bequeathing life’s lessons
- May 2018 Giving Them the Business Make a Plan
- May 2019 Creating an estate plan for a beloved pet
- MCAD Issues Sexual Harassment Guidelines For Employers
- Medicaid Madness Continues as the Rules Change Once Again
- Medicaid Proposals Will Strain Everyone
- Mold - A Hidden Home Toxin
- Moving Forward with a Reverse Mortgage
- Moving Forward With A Reverse Mortgage
- Moving Forward With A Reverse Mortgage
- My Home Sweet Home - How to protect your personal residence from Medicaid Recovery
- Navigating The Minefield Of Long Distance Caregiving
- New Family Plan? New Estate Plan
- New Laws of Marriage Life Planning - Are Crucial for Non-traditional Couples
- New Lease on Life (and the Balance Sheet) - Why Sale-leaseback Arrangements Make Sense for Many Business Owners
- New Massachusetts Estate Tax Exemptions Are Likely to Cause Hardships for the Unprepared
- No Room For Error - Employers' Obligations To Called-Up Reservists
- November 2018 Your Estate Do You Need a Trust
- October 2018 Digital Assets and Your Estate Plan
- Oh Dear, College is Here! - How can I get my Ex to Help Pay?
- Organizing Your Estate Plan
- Outlook 2004: Law - Area's Law Firms Remain Strong Through Slow Economy
- Passing The Baton: The Importance Of Succession Planning In Business
- Past-Due Diligence, Know the Laws When It Comes to Collecting Receivables
- Patients’ Rights - What You Can Expect from Your Doctor or Medical Facility
- Peace Of Mind: A Health Care Proxy Ensures That Wishes Will Be Honored
- People, Even Young Ones, are Not Invincible - Health Care Proxies Are Not Just for People 50 and Over
- Pet Trusts Arrive In Massachusetts
- Plan Now For Your Partner’s Sake
- Plan Now to Avoid Paying Nursing Home Costs
- Plan Now to Protect Your Pets Later
- Plan Your Estate Before Your Escape
- Planning Ahead - How to Save Your Nest Egg From Nursing-home Costs
- Planning for Incapacity: Take Steps Now to Keep the Court out of Your Personal Decisions
- Planning Your Estate: When a "Simple Will" Won't Suffice
- Power of Attorney - Designating Someone to Handle Your Financial Matters
- Preparing for 2010 - Shaping Up Your Employment Policies
- Preparing For Incapacity - The Durable Power of Attorney Helps Assure a Proper Flow of Funds
- Prescription For Progress - Taking The Mystery Out Of Medicare Part D and Its Enrollment Decisions
- Preserving Your Home - One of Your Most Valuable Assets
- Prevailing Wage - As Recent Cases Show, Non-compliance Penalties Are Severe
- Preventing Construction Litigation - Steps to Remodeling Satisfaction
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- Profile in Courage - Attorney Marty Dunn Stands Tall Against ALS
- Promises, Promises - Navigating the World of Personal Guarantees
- Protecting Assets from Nursing Home Costs
- Protecting Assets from Nursing Home Costs with an Irrevocable Trust
- Protecting Personal Information - New Law Affects Virtually Every Business in the Commonwealth
- Put Estate Planning on Your Travel Checklist
- Qualifying for Medicaid: What Families Need to Know About What Dictates Eligibility
- Reading Between the Lines - The Many Issues in Negotiating Commercial Real Estate Leases
- Ready, Set, Fire - How To Successfully Terminate an Employee
- Recognizing Elder Abuse
- Recognizing Elder Abuse
- Recognizing Elder Abuse - Grandma's Broken Glasses, and Other Subtle Signs of Trouble
- Regional Law Firm Attorneys Honored as 2012 SuperLawyers & Rising Stars
- Resolve Now to Review Your Estate Plan in 2015
- Resolve to review your estate plan
- Resolve to review your estate plan
- Restoring Veterans’ Benefits: Proposed Federal Legislation Could Bring Financial Changes
- Reverse Mortgage - It Could Be the Most Useful Tool in Your Financial Toolbox
- Reverse Mortgages Demystified - Borrowing the Equity in Your Own Residence Can Provide Financial Security
- Reverse Mortgages for the Affluent, Too: Are You Up to Speed on the Advantages and New Regulations for 2014?
- Reviewing your estate plan: It’s a New Year’s resolution that’s easy to keep
- Same Sex Married Couples Now Enjoy Same Rights Under Federal Law
- Securing the Future - Millions Are Turning to Long-term Care Insurance
- Security of Your Medical Records – From HIPAA to the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act
- Selling or Purchasing Real Estate: The Basics of the Purchase and Sale Agreement
- September 2018 When Your Child is Also Your Caregiver
- September 2019 Estate planning myths: know the facts to avoid these pitfalls
- Shaking The Money Tree - There Are Many Options For Finding Cash For Your Strapped Business
- Show Me the Money
- Smart College Planning With Section 529 Plans
- Some Advice - on the House - A Primer on Real-estate Disclosures and After-sale Recourse
- Some Advice - on the House - Deadly Sins of a Home Improvement Project
- Some Things to Chew On - Estate Planning Considerations for the Baby Boomer/Sandwich Generation
- Sorry, That’s Confidential!
- Sorry, That’s Confidential!
- Special Needs Children: Proper Planning Can Preserve Assets to Support Them When You're Gone
- Special Needs Require Special Planning
- Special Needs Require Special Planning
- Special Needs Require Special Planning
- Special Needs Require Special Planning 2007
- Starting a Small Business in Your Retirement - Reviewing Your Options
- Staying at Home – Considerations for Elders and Their Caregivers
- Steps to Successful Remodeling: How to Protect Yourself from Unsavory Contractors
- Take Steps Now to Maintain Your Independence Later
- Taking the Guesswork out of Choosing an Attorney
- Taking the Guesswork Out of Choosing an Attorney
- Taking the Guesswork Out of Choosing an Attorney
- Taxing Situation - The Rules Are Changing For Condominium Unit Owners Organizations
- Telemarketing Law Loopholes May Disappoint Consumers
- Ten Misconceptions about: Bankruptcy
- Ten Points About : Hiring a Home Contractor
- Ten Points About : Obtaining Business Credit
- Ten Questions Not to Ask During an Interview
- Ten reasons to hire a lawyer for domestic-relations proceedings
- Testamentary Capacity: The Concept of ‘Sound Mind’ Is Not a Black-and-White Matter
- The 2010 Health Care Mandate: Understand the Many Ways It Can Impact Your Bottom Line
- The Art of Conveyancing
- The Basic Estate Plan - Peace of Mind for the Savvy Traveler
- The Basic Estate Plan: Don't Leave Home Without It
- The Battle over Social Media - Balancing Your Marketing Department's Need with an Employer's Desire to Block Access
- The Bay State’s Personnel Records Law Beware — There Are Some Traps for the Unwary Employer
- The Cellular Tightrope - Balancing Employee Privacy and Corporate Confidentiality
- The Clock Is Ticking - Employers' Healthcare Reform Compliance Deadline Looms
- The Deed with Life Estate - A Smart Way to Preserve Your Home from Long Term Care Expenses
- The Do-not-resuscitate Order: Understand the Significance of This Important Document
- The Expectant Employer: Understand Your Obligations for Maternity and Paternity Leave
- The family business: Ensuring a smooth transition when it’s tim
- The Family Leave Medical Act Rights and Responsibilities
- The Family Medical Leave Act and Massachusetts Maternity Leave Act Provide Time at Home for New Moms
- The Homestead Declaration: Simple protection for your most valuable asset
- The IDIOT Trust: A tool to protect assets from nursing home costs
- The Impact of Grief on Your Estate Plan
- The Importance of the Special-needs Trust
- The Ins and Outs of Personal Guarantees
- The Legal End of Alzheimer’s A Diagnosis Leads to Special Legal, Financial Issues
- The Life Estate Deed – one option for protecting your home
- The Life Estate Deed – One Option for Protecting Your Home
- The Life Estate Deed—one home protection option
- The Massachusetts Benefit Corporation A New Entity Has Been Created for Socially Responsible Businesses
- The Medicaid Rules Have Changed, but the Planning Continues
- The MUPC: An Overview Uniform Probate Code Features Several New Provisions
- The New Bankruptcy Law: Assessing The Law's Impact on Women
- The Numbers Game - Personal Income-tax Considerations for Tax Year 2008
- The Perils of Sexting: Take Steps Now to Prevent Your Teen from Crossing a Major Legal Line
- The Pitfalls of Estate Planning - Sweeping the Minefield of Long-distance Caregiving
- The Power Of Planning: Legal Tools You Can Use To Avoid Guardianship and Conservatorship
- The reverse mortgage—is it for you?
- The Sandwich Generation: Coping with Being Stuck in the Middle, Caring for Parents and Kids
- The Sliding Scale on Sexual Harassment
- The Special Needs Trust - This Legal Planning Tool Can Help Protect the Financial Future For a Disabled Child
- The special needs trust: Why it’s important to plan ahead November 2020
- The Sunset Provision of Estate Taxes: How Much Tax Will Be Owed by the Survivors of Those Who Die in 2010?
- The Truth About Gift Tax
- The truth about the ‘gift tax’
- The Uniform Probate Code - Enhanced Protection Available for Those Needing Guardianship
- The Will That Won't - Should it be Contested?
- Things Not to Include in a Will: Documents Have Limitations, and Some Language Is Not Suitable
- Things to Know When Your Child is Also Your Caregiver
- Timing is Everything-or Is It? - Cortez Challenges the "Snapshot" Approach to Analyzing Abuse Pursuant to 11 USC - 707(b)
- Tipping Point: Restaurateurs Must Take Steps to Avoid Costly Penalties
- Top 10 Estate Planning Mistakes - And All of Them Can Be Easily Corrected
- Tourism Is A Two Way Street
- Transitional Planning in Special Ed: Start Early When Determining and Preparing for Life After School
- Tripping over the Fine Print - How to Avoid Pitfalls When Negotiating Vendor Agreements
- Twenty Phrases that Can — and Will — Kill Ideas
- Uncle Sam is Coming to Dinner – Act Now for Year-End Tax Planning
- Uncle Sam is Coming to Dinner – Plan Ahead and Enjoy the Holidays
- Understanding Veterans’ Benefits Assistance: Is Available to Those Who Qualify Financially
- Uniform Probate Code Revisited And Why You Should Still Avoid It Whenever Possible
- United Way Is There To Help
- Unlikely Bedfellows: Preserving Assets While Financing Nursing Home Care
- Usernames & Passwords & Logins, Oh My! Preventing a Disaster for Your Heirs
- Vacation Home Co-ownership - Proper Documentation Can Help Avoid Some Headaches
- Vacation? Establish an Estate Plan Before Your Trip
- Veteran’s Benefits: A Primer on Pensions
- Veterans Pension And Benefits: A Little Secret That Veterans Need to Know
- Web of Intrigue - Employers Face Potential Liability for Employees' Internet and E-mail Use
- Western MA Economic Outlook - Boom, Bust or Draw?
- What Are the Benefits of Hospice Care?
- What Brownfields Can Do for You - How Some Developers are Spinning Environmental Contamination into Gold
- What is the Best Approach to Financial Planning?
- What is Title Insurance? Why would you purchase a policy?
- What to Pay First - How to Prioritize Your Payments When Finances Are Tight
- When a Loved One Passes Away - Steps to Take Even If You Think There Is No "Probate" Estate
- When It's All Going to the Dogs - A Primer on the Emerging Trend of Pet Estate Planning
- When It's All Going to the Dogs - Planning Estates with Pets
- When It's All Going to the Dogs: Planning For Your Pets After You're Gone
- When Mom and Dad Won't Move - Sweeping the Minefield of Long Distance Caregiving
- When Mom and Dad Won’t Move – Sweeping the Minefield of Long Distance Caregiving
- When You Aren't Really You - Protecting Yourself from Identity Thieves
- When Your Child is Also Your Caregiver
- Where There's a Will, There's an Heir
- Where There’s a Will, There’s an Heir
- Where There’s a Will, There’s an Heir
- Where to Draw the Line - Use Caution with Non-competes and Confidentiality Agreements
- Who Will Care for Your Minor Children if You Can't?
- Who's Your Momma? A Review of Surrogacy Rights of Partners in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Helps to Answer This Question.
- Why every woman needs an estate plan
- Will in a Box - The Dangers of Estate Planning Software Programs
- Will vs. Trust: Deciding which is right for your estate
- Will Your Nest Egg Pay Your Nursing Home Costs? - Plan Now to Avoid Paying Later
- Wills vs. Trusts - Explaining the Estate Planning Enigma
- Wills vs. Trusts – Which is Right for You?
- Wills vs. Trusts—which is right for you feb 2017
- Women—plan for financial independence
- Workplace Violence and Background Checks
- Year End Planning – It’s Not Too Late . . . Yet
- Year End Tax Planning -- It's Not Too Late
- Year End Tax Planning – It’s Not Too Late
- Year-end Tax Planning—It’s Not too Late
- Year-end tax planning: COVID-19 has tweaked some approaches December 2020
- You can't take it with you - charity and your estate
- You Can’t Take it with You: Charity & Your Estate
- You Can’t Take it With You: Consider Charity in Your Final Plans
- You Can’t Take it With You. Consider Charity in Your Final Plans
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