Tales from the Trenches of Trust Administration By Elaine M. Watrous Over the past few years I’ve worked with many people who have lost a loved one to help them understand how big their job is as trustee of a trust and how their new role is not to be undertaken without proper legal & professional guidance. I have come to the conclusion that the very person chosen as trustee is just as … [Read more...]

In the last few years, the United States has started to see a distinct change in the age of the population. In 2009, over 15% of the United States population, or almost 50 million people, were age 65 and older. Advances in medicine have increased our overall life spans significantly; however, with these advances comes a darker, more sinister development: increasing incidence of elder abuse. The … [Read more...]

Every year as universities reopen,  attorneys receive panicked calls  from parents whose children  are away at school with health  problems. A freshman breaks his jaw  in an intramural football game. A  sophomore crashed her bike into a  cement post on the side of the road.  A junior swam under a pod of jellyfish  that stung his back and sides: A  dozen stories in every law office show … [Read more...]

Parents with children headed for trips with scouts or school often contact me about what forms they need to complete for their children before the group leaves town. What questions should a parent address concerning paperwork that will accompany a child on a trip with a group or a non parent? The following represent some good starting points for grandparents or aunts and uncles taking a … [Read more...]

What Medicine Can Consumers Take to Cure the Cuts to California’s Constricted Courts? Teachers and firefighters are not the only public employees to fall beneath the steamroller of nationwide budget cuts: March’s issue of the ABA Journal outlines a litany of problems in cashstrapped courts of twenty-nine states that range from suspending civil jury trials in New Hampshire to judges soliciting … [Read more...]