A Suspected “Sweetheart Swindle”

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 […]

NH’s Updated Power of Attorney Statute

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.