One of the biggest obstacles that people seem to come up against when thinking about drawing up a Will or making some plans for retirement is uncertainty about the process. It’s common to avoid things that make us nervous, and many people put off calling an attorney about their estate plan because they don’t even [...]
Estate planning, elder law, special needs, probate, guardianship. Leanna Hamill, Hingham
Category Archives: Elder Law
Is Your Attorney Nosy? You Should Hope So
I was bitten by a tick last summer and went to the doctor to have it checked out. The first thing they did, as always, was weigh me and take my blood pressure. I wondered how either of these things were relevant to my tick bite, so I asked. The response, “the [...]
The Importance of Staying Active
The real point of this post is so that I can brag a little about how my 77 year old dad and I climbed Mt. Washington in New Hampshire this weekend.
Here I am at the top:
and here he and I are back at the bottom, 9.2 miles and 11 hours later:
We first climbed it together [...]
How Do You Deal With Stress? (And why does your lawyer care?)
(Hingham Bathing Beach Park, a great place to de-stress.)
Very often the people in my office (or reading my website) are under some type of stress. Either they are overwhelmed caring for an aging parent or ailing loved one, they are nervous about planning for their future and thinking about their death or disability, or someone [...]
How Do I Convince My Parents to Do Their Wills?
This is a very common question that I get from adult children calling my office, friends asking about their parents or that I sometimes ask myself.
While we know that we mean well when we want to make sure our parents have their estate plan in place, I think that what our parents hear is “Hey, [...]
Why Am I In the Waiting Room?
If you bring your parent to an appointment with an elder law attorney, you might want to bring a good book or your knitting. This is because you may be sitting in the waiting room for most of the meeting.
The American Bar Association explains why in their pamphlet Why Am I Left in the Waiting [...]
Bringing a Trusted Friend To a Meeting
Doctors sometimes recommend that you bring a companion to an appointment where a second set of ears may be useful. Sometimes my clients find it helpful to bring a second set of ears to our meetings together, and will invite a friend, family member or other trusted advisor to sit in. This usually takes place [...]
Helping Your Health Care Proxy
April is Health Care Decisions month, the month when you are supposed to sign health care proxies and talk to your family about your “end of life wishes.” I know many people will sign health care proxies, but I wonder how many will take that next step to communicate their wishes to their families, or [...]
There’s No Right (or Wrong) Time to Talk About It
People often think that you need to have “the talk” about important subjects. As though having one giant conversation at some magic age with your kids about sex or drugs or drinking will be sufficient to last them through out the rest of their growing up years.
And very often my older clients think they need [...]
Fear Won’t Keep The Basement Dry
A neighbor’s heat stopped working yesterday. It had been raining since Friday and she arrived home from some errands to a cold house. She’s older, so she asked me to go down the steep basement steps to see what was going on. There was floating going on – lawn chairs, coolers, papers. And a furnace [...]
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