Estate Planning & Wills

Blanscet Sutherland Hooper & Hale L.L.P. provides comprehensive estate planning and probate services to our clients. Our Firm offers advice, counsel and document preparation as to:

Simple and complex wills and trust (both testamentary and inter vivos)
Advance directives (e.g., powers of attorney, medical powers of attorney, living wills, HIPAA authorizations, adult and minor children guardianship directives, funeral directives, anatomical donations) and other planning-related documents and instruments
Planning to minimize federal estate and gift tax liability (e.g., bypass trusts, QTIP trusts, QDOT trusts, charitable lead and remainder trusts, grantor retained annuity trusts, life insurance trusts)
Preparation of federal gift and estate tax returns
Operation and management of trusts by trustees and for beneficiaries
Non-testamentary transfer planning, insurance and deferred compensation beneficiary designations, life and remainder estates and the use of inter vivos trusts as a non-testamentary planning tool
Deferred compensation income distribution planning
Asset protection planning
Family limited partnership and other organizational structures as estate planning
Business management and succession planning
Business insurance planning for transfer and succession purposes