About
Since 1996, the Law Offices of Brian E. Barreira in Plymouth and Hingham, Massachusetts have supplied prison services to individuals, married couples, enterprise owners, senior citizens, disabled individuals and their families in the regions of estate planning, lengthy-time period care making plans (consisting of Medicaid or MassHealth packages and fair hearing appeals), governmental advantages making plans (which includes SSI), estate and gift tax subjects and Probate Court problems (consisting of estates, trusts, guardianships and conservatorships). Brian is devoted to providing the very best level of legal information to clients while attempting to keep subjects as easy as feasible to maintain customers standard fees down. Brian received his regulation diploma from Boston University School of Law in 1984. Later, even as training regulation, he enrolled element-time inside the Graduate Tax Program at Boston University School of Law, wherein he attained a Master of Laws in Taxation in 1990. An early chief inside the development of elder law as a strong point, Brian served for 6 years as the first Chair of the Elder Law Committee of the American Bar Association s General Practice Section. He has additionally served as President, Treasurer and Director of the Massachusetts Chapter of the National Academy of Elder Lawyers, and as Chair of the Committee on Long-Term Health Care Issues of the American Bar Association s Real Property, Probate & Trust Law Section. Among Brian s various experiences, he has served as a background source on elder economic abuse reports for the Boston Globe Spotlight Team and 60 Minutes; as an undercover informant for the Massachusetts Lawyer General s Office in shutting down an agency that changed into fraudulently promoting trusts to senior citizens; and as an professional witness in a current case opposing the costs of two lawyers who attempted to rate over $500,000 for an 83-day transient guardianship. Brian has been posted nationally numerous instances in such legal journals as Estate Planning, Probate & Property › ›
Location
Legal Issues
- Estate Planning
- Guardianship & Conservatorship, Health Care Directives, Trusts, Wills
- Probate
- Probate Administration, Probate Litigation, Will Contests
- Elder Law
- Tax Law
- Business Taxes, Criminal Tax Litigation, Estate Tax Planning, Income Taxes, International Taxes, Payroll Taxes, Property Taxes, Sales Taxes, Tax Appeals, Tax Audits, Tax Planning
- MassHealth Applications & Fair Hearing Appeals
- Special Needs Trusts & Governmental Benefit Planning
- Guardianship & Conservatorship
Costs
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Retaines and Rates
My workplaces continually costs for preliminary consultations. (You won't just like the concept of procuring the first meeting, however do you really want your property planning attorney to basically be on fee?)
Certificates
National Elder Law Foundation since 1996. NELF is a private organization, whose standards for certification have been approved by the American Bar Association but are not regulated by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Languages
- English: Spoken, Written
Accepted Jurisdictions
Experience
- Lawyer
Law Offices of Brian E. Barreira, Plymouth and Hingham, Massachusetts
1996 - Lawyer
Winokur, Winokur, Serkey & Rosenberg, P.C., Plymouth, Massachusetts
1998 - Lawyer
Barron & Stadfeld, Boston, Massachusetts
1997 - Estate Settlement Specialist
State Street Bank and Trust Company, Boston, Massachusetts
1995
Educations
Graduation year: 1987
Graduation year: 1981
Graduation year: 1976
