Attorney Younger is the manager of the Trusts and Estates Administration Department, and has more than a decade of experience in the fields of trusts and estates administration, taxation, estate planning, special needs trusts, corporate law, non-profit organizations, mediation, guardianships/conservatorships and appellate practice.
Attorney Younger is a graduate of Suffolk University Law School and The City College of New York, and currently studies at Boston University School of Law, towards an LL.M. in Taxation. He has four years of experience at Fierro, Fierro & Izzard, P.C. in Fort Lee, New Jersey, he clerked at the Massachusetts Appeal Court for the Honorable David A. Mills, and has been with Cushing & Dolan, P.C. since 2005.
Attorney Younger's selected successes and achievements include:
- Representing estates of wealth ranging from insolvent to more than $500,000,000,
- Preparation of United States Estate (and Generation-Skipping Transfer) Tax Returns (Form 706), Release of Liens (Form 792), and related state returns/forms.
- Representing complex estates comprised of
- Trusts, including, grantor, simple, complex, charitable-remainder, funding, joint, revocable, irrevocable, irrevocable life insurance, among other types of trusts;
Corporate entities, including, family limited partnerships, limited liability company, C-Corporations, S-Corporations, among others;
Assets, including, real estate holdings such as rental real estate, residential and commercial property, life estates, farm/agricultural (61A) land, and vacant land; stocks, bonds and securities; bank deposit accounts such as checking, savings, certificates of deposit, and money market; life insurance, including term, whole and life; and many other types;
- Illiquid assets, including vacant, commercial, vacation, industrial, and farm land; corporations with poor sales in the years leading up to administration; farm operations; intellectual property including patents, trademarks, and other protected property; and
- Litigation, including asbestos litigation, wrongful death litigation, no-contest (In terrorem) clause litigation, removal of fiduciary/executor litigation, contested account litigation, contested appointment litigation, and will compromise proceedings.
- Estates administered in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Maine, Rhode Island, Vermont, New York, New Jersey, Maryland, South Carolina, North Carolina, Florida, Texas, Arkansas, California, Alabama, among other jurisdictions.
- Representing complex estates suffering from dormancy ranging from one to over one-hundred years.
- Representing simple (testate and intestate) estates, appointing fiduciaries (executors, administrators, administrators DBN, administrators CTA, trustees-under-wills).
- Representation in mediation involving cases of wrongful death, ERISA, will contests, and family disputes.
- Coordinating aspects of cases internally between all departments, and externally with CPAs, attorneys, fiduciaries and other representatives.
- Authored dozens of bench memorandums while clerking for Massachusetts Appeals Court Associate Justice David A. Mills.
- Public service in the form of pro bono public service, and many leadership positions, including service on a statewide Commission and as president and CEO of a local non-profit corporation in Massachusetts for more than fifteen years.
Areas of Practice
- Appellate Practice
- Asset Protection
- Estate Planning:
- Wills, Trusts, Durable Powers of Attorney, HIPPA Releases, Living Wills, and Health Care Directives.
- Gifting
- Annual, Lifetime, and Taxable
- Guardianship & Conservatorship proceedings:
- Establishing emergency conservatorships, Petitions to Expand (gifting, establishing an estate plan, appointing trustees, etc.).
- Matrimonial Law:
- Prenuptial Agreements;
- Postnuptial Agreements; and
- Vaughn Affidavits.
- Real Estate:
- Conveyancing, Sales, and Purchases.
- Clearing Clouded Title
- Special Needs Trusts:
- Third-party established, and
- Chapter 42 U.S.C. § 1396p(d)(4)(A) established by parent, guardian or the Court.
- Taxation:
- Income, Estates, Trusts, Partnerships, S-Corporations, C-Corporations.
- Trusts and Estates Administration
