Estate Planning

Clark, Hunt, Ahern and Embry offers a full range of trust and estate services to our clients to preserve their wealth and to enable them to pass assets to their beneficiaries in the most appropriate and tax-effective manner. Our attorneys provide thoughtful and comprehensive advice and services including:

• Working closely with clients to provide the maximum amount of control over assets during their lifetime, while protecting inheritances from creditors, divorce, and catastrophic illness
  
  
• Understanding and memorializing how each individual loved-one will be cared for after a client’s passing
  
  
• Providing the means to ensure that the client and not the probate court will direct how the client is cared for during periods of incapacity or illness
  
  
• Methodologies to avoid the time and expense of the probate system, and to minimizing both the Federal Estate and Massachusetts Estate taxes
  
  
• Providing for individuals with Special Needs without jeopardizing Government benefits
  
  
• Employing Charitable Giving Techniques, Wealth Transfer, Wealth Preservation Strategies, and Asset Protection Planning
  
  
• Assisting business owners to preserve and assure continuity of their businesses