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Many of our cases involve actual or suspected financial exploitation of the elderly in which a claim is made that someone took advantage of the cognitive and/or emotional vulnerability of an older person to gain financial enrichment from “gifting” of assets, changes in financial accounts, and/or rewriting of estate plans. While the typical case involves […]
Power of attorney accounting actions are among the most common types of litigation in our practice. Effective January 1, 2018, New Hampshire adopted a new statute that made some significant changes and refinements to the law. Here is a recent article in the “Know the Law” series of the Union Leader that discusses the new law.
The NH Supreme Court’s recent decision in Ketteridge v. Martin Lord & Osman, P.A. strongly suggests that the Court will likely hold that an estate planning attorney does not owe a duty to intended beneficiaries of an estate plan to evaluate whether the client is being subjected to undue influence when the client makes a change to […]
