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Janet has been with the firm since 1980 and is a partner. She focuses her practice in estate planning and estate and trust administration, including prenuptial agreements, elder law and special needs planning, guardianships and probate law, charitable giving techniques, business succession planning and preparation of estate tax returns and fiduciary income tax returns for estates and trusts. She works with individuals in all areas of estate and gift tax planning, ranging from homestead declarations and testamentary estate planning (including wills, trusts, durable powers of attorney, health care proxies and living wills) to sophisticated lifetime gifting techniques, such as irrevocable life insurance trusts, lifetime QTIP trusts, charitable trusts, grantor retained annuity trusts, intentionally defective grantor trusts, family limited liability companies and qualified personal residence trusts. Janet works with individuals who may need trusts for special needs, asset protection or Medicaid planning. She also handles estate settlement and administration, trust administration, and prenuptial agreements.
Janet has been named one of Massachusetts "Super Lawyers" by Boston magazine and Law & Politics every year since 2006.In 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2012, she was selected by her peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in American the field of Trusts and Estates. Janet was also selected for the 2011 inaugural edition of Martindale-Hubbell Bar Register of Preeminent Women Lawyers.
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