Planning for your future.
Attorney Michelle B. LaPointe has been providing thoughtful and personalized legal services in Brookline for over twenty years. Michelle focuses on estate planning, special needs planning, elder law, probate and trust administration, with a specific focus on LGBT+ individuals and families.
Helping You Navigate Your Life
Estate Planning
Thinking about your future and the loved ones you will leave behind is a daunting process. Michelle takes a compassionate and personalized approach to help you create the plan that meets your goals, while minimizing taxes and supporting the needs of your loved ones.
Special Needs Planning
Michelle has extensive expertise in public benefits eligibility and special needs trust drafting and administration. With this knowledge, she can help you create a plan to provide your loved one with the thoughtful support they need to live a comfortable and fulfilling life.
Probate and Trust Administration
Probate and trust administration are complex processes that often must be managed at a difficult time when clients are grieving and adjusting to life changes. Michelle can assist you with the probate process from beginning to end and work with you to fund and administer trusts. She works closely with accountants, real estate professionals and financial advisors to ensure that your assets are managed efficiently.
Elder Law
Aging presents different challenges to all of us. Michelle brings her considerable knowledge and skill in public benefits, tax planning and long term care planning to all client interactions to implement creative and personalized planning for each client.
LGBT+ Planning
Michelle brings over twenty years of experience to the unique challenges of planning for LGBT+ individuals and families. Michelle recognizes and thoughtfully addresses name and gender marker changes, non-traditional family structures, including blended families and unmarried parents, and challenging family relationships.
Our Location and Meetings
We are happy to meet with you however works best for you, including video conferencing and meetings in our accessible office in Coolidge Corner.
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