In the estate planning world, probate is sometimes referred to as a necessary evil. While the process can be long and costly, it is sometimes needed to make sure that an estate is divided how the decedent intended. Essentially, probate manages the transferring of a...
Month: December 2014
How reproductive technology complicates the meaning of ‘heir’
In estate planning, we talk a lot about heirs. That’s because a huge part of estate planning has to do with establishing who will inherit a person’s assets upon his or her death and how those assets will be passed down from there. Decades ago,...
A trust is one way to protect inheritances during a divorce
A recent article in the Wall Street Journal pointed out that Massachusetts is one of the country’s few “kitchen sink” states. No, that has nothing to do with cooking or even kitchens, for that matter; it has to do with how property is divided during...
