Sitting around a table discussing estate planning with your family is no one’s idea of a good time. Parents are hesitant to raise the...

Whether you have a will-based or a trust-based estate plan, there is often use of non-probate transfers rounding out the edges of the...

Over the next nine years, the number of Vermonters age 65 and older living with Alzheimer’s disease is expected to increase by more than...

Family camps often don’t age well. They start out being wonderful, an opportunity for young families to get away and be a family despite...

For those clients who think of their pets as family members, and two thirds of pet owners do, there is an increasing awareness that part...

Perhaps seeking to raise the Vermont estate tax exclusion level to match the federal level was asking too much. In the end, that didn’t...

Digital assets are unique in the estate planning world and need to be handled correctly, or else you risk leaving your survivors...

Mention the term “asset protection” and clients and attorneys alike want to discuss cutting edge, complex methods of putting assets “out...

It’s common for parents to contemplate making gifts to their adult children, particularly when a gift would have a meaningful impact. But...

Two or more people may simultaneously own the same property, for instance a camp on the lake. But what happens to a person’s share of...

Per stirpes is one of three common law survivorship options for dividing an inheritance among your children’s descendants (your...