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May a person entitled to an inheritance refuse to accept it? It might sound like a strange question, but there are strategic reasons why a person might choose to do so.

At the Law Office of Jeremy Howe, our Child Support RI Attorneys have a strong commitment to assisting clients through the entire child support process.

The average person probably isn’t familiar with Rhode Island Divorce laws. Getting a divorce usually isn’t a planned venture.

Very soon, the Congressional House Ways and Means Committee will vote on a repeal of the federal estate and gift tax. If the measure gets through the committee

March 2015 – Case: client received million dollar personal injury settlement in California motor vehicle accident.

For persons entitled to large personal injury awards, settlements or proceeds from other legal claims, payment made directly to the claimant can be problematic when the claimant is already receiving certain needs-based public benefits such as Supplemental Security Income (SSI) or Medicaid.

We hope that our clients can live full, happy and healthy lives and that they will follow the excellent mental and physical health suggestions contained in this interesting article.

We’d like to bring to your attention two recent articles from Elder Law Answers highlighting issues in elder law and estate planning that should be on everyone’s radar.

Clients often hear the word “fiduciary” mentioned when visiting an estate planning attorney. Simply put, a fiduciary is “someone who has undertaken to act on behalf of another

Case: A gentleman who had been granted Durable Power of Attorney by his elderly mother needed to transfer money from her mutual funds account into a checking account of which he and his mother were joint owners.