Protecting assets from creditors can be an important part of a person’s estate plan.  This can include protecting assets from the high cost of long-term nursing care for the elderly, providing for a child or family member with special needs, preserving and protecting wealth for future generations, insulating personal assets from business assets and planning for business succession, or simply controlling assets for a spendthrift beneficiary.  Over the years the firm has also represented many professionals in the medical field where a litigious society and high cost of malpractice insurance has been a cause for concern and the need for advanced asset protection planning.  Our asset protection planning practice guides clients with legal counsel regarding the following:

• Use of Irrevocable Trusts
• Medicaid and MassHealth
• Elder Law advice
• Incapacitation planning
• Guardianships and Conservatorships
• Supplemental Needs Trusts/Special Needs Trusts
• D4a Trusts
• Pooled Disability Trusts
• Generation-Skipping planning
• Domestic Asset Protection Trusts
• Offshore Trusts
• S Corporations, Partnerships and LLCs
• Business Succession
• Buy-Sell Agreements
• Life Insurance Planning
• Prenuptial Agreements
• Blended Families
• Homestead Declarations