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Attorney Jeanne S. Saffan practices business & nonprofit law, employment law, and estate planning. She represents individuals, businesses, and nonprofit organizations, and primarily assists her clients with financially preparing for the future through estate planning and succession planning. Additionally, she assists employers with investigations and other legal matters. She is licensed to practice law in New York, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire, where she works for Upton & Hatfield, LLP.Attorney Saffan is involved with several legal organizations, such as the New Hampshire Estate Planning Council, the Massachusetts Bar Association, the Probate and Property Section of the American Bar Association, the New Hampshire Women’s Bar Association, the Society of Human Resource Management, the Association of Workplace Investigators, and the New Hampshire Bar Association, of which she is a former chair of their Trusts and Estates section.

As a member of the Upton & Hatfield, LLP legal team, Attorney Thomas W. Morse helps the people of New Hampshire with legal matters such as estate planning, wills, trusts, probate administration, and elder law. He has served on the board of the New Hampshire Centennial Home for the Aged. He has also worked with organizations such as the Eleanor Haller Animal Welfare Fund, Ragged Mountain Fish & Game Club, St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, and the Concord Rotary Club, of which he is the foundation co-chair.Attorney Morse is a Concord, NH native. He graduated from Amherst College before earning his law degree from the University of Maine School of Law. Attorney Morse served as a Congressional Correspondent for an Army Air Defense Command in Kaiserslautern, West Germany.

Cheryl’s practice focuses on the many different aspects of estate planning, including wealth preservation for multigenerational families, taxation, probate administration, closely held business planning and elder law. She is experienced in implementing a full range of estate planning structures from the essential core documents, such as wills, health care proxies and durable powers of attorney, to complex documents for affluent individuals, families and small business owners, including various types of revocable and irrevocable trusts, buy/sell agreements, family limited liability company documents, prenuptial agreements and private foundations. She frequently assists families with sophisticated estate planning techniques to minimize the impact of estate, gift and generation skipping taxes, such as installment sales to intentionally defective grantor trusts, grantor retained annuity trusts, structured gifting plans, qualified personal residence trusts, dynasty trusts, charitable trusts, business succession plans and life insurance planning. As part of her estate and probate administration practice, Cheryl has represented fiduciaries in the administration of substantial estates, including the preparation of estate tax returns for estates with complex valuation and estate tax issues.. Cheryl has also represented elderly and disabled clients and their families in guardianship matters, in implementing supplemental needs trusts and special needs trusts, in maximizing the availability of benefits such as Medicaid while preserving family assets, in the preparation and filing of Medicaid applications, and has successfully appealed denied Medicaid applications before the Medicaid Board of Hearings.. As an adoptive mother, Cheryl is particularly in tune with the unique estate planning needs of diverse and non-traditional families, including families with adopted children, foster children, step-children and families built through Assisted Reproductive Technologies.

Carole practices in the Elder Law, Estate Planning, Probate, and Trust Group of Shaheen & Gordon, P.A. She focuses on helping individuals and families achieve their goals and solidify their legacies.

For over a decade, Attorney Candice O’Neil has been drawn to estate planning for the opportunity it provides to educate people about a complicated but important area of the law and to build lifelong relationships with clients. Her natural compassion and patience help put her clients at ease as they discuss the personal and sensitive issues necessary to creating an effective estate plan.Behind the Approachable Personality Is an Experienced Attorney. While clients are drawn to her personable nature, they are also comforted knowing that she has over a decade of experience in estate planning. A graduate of Assumption College and Northeastern University School of Law, Candice honed her skills at a Massachusetts law firm and a wealth management company before joining Hudkins Law in 2011. Now the Managing Attorney of the Hampton, NH, office, Candice helps individuals and families protect their assets, plan for the care of loved ones and minor children, and avoid probate. In addition, she advises small business owners, assisting with entity selection, business formation, business succession planning, and contract drafting.

Carah Kiley is an estate planning, wealth preservation and probate attorney with KLG Estate Planning and Probate Attorneys. Carah practices in estate planning, probate, wealth preservation and trust administration, working hard to secure the financial futures of families throughout Massachusetts and New Hampshire.

John has over 25 years of practice experience in California Massachusetts, and New Hampshire. John has operated operated his own law firm and, earlier in his career, was also the first in-house corporate counsel to a New Hampshire based 200+ employee technology company. John practices in the areas of estate planning, probate, trusts & estates, general business law and succession planning, and contracts. John is also a member of the New Hampshire Bar Associations’ Elder Law, Estate Planning and Probate Law Section, the Corporate, Banking and Business Law Section, and the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys.

Amanda Steenhuis focuses her practice on estate planning, guardianships, and probate and trust administration. Amanda is a client-centered attorney dedicated to helping individuals and families create comprehensive estate plans tailored to their goals and needs. She has shaped her practice on a foundation of a decade of litigation, which guides her in counseling clients on the best way to achieve their goals, such as avoiding probate, caring for an incapacitated loved one, or administering an estate layered in complexities or discord.. Amanda grew up in Kentucky, studied at the University of Louisville, and graduated from Cornell Law School. Amanda’s experiences, both personal and professional, help her bring a deeper level of understanding and passion to her work. When her father passed away after a painfully short battle with brain cancer she was thrust into a new and confusing world of probate administration. Her probate attorney guided her through that difficult time and helped her feel confident that she was honoring her father’s wishes. Now she values the opportunity to help clients plan for the future and give their loved ones the tools they need to move forward. For individuals faced with the confusing prospect of probate court and trust administration, she knows firsthand how helpful it is to have someone by your side. As an estate planning and probate attorney, Amanda is committed to helping clients feel confident about the complex legal decisions they face.. Prior to working in trusts and estates, Amanda spent many years working as a criminal defense attorney where she helped vulnerable people navigate the legal system. She worked closely with judges, counselors, and law enforcement on the Hillsborough County Adult Drug Court to help individuals with significant substance use disorders rebuild their lives. She has a true appreciation of how the intersection of life’s stressors impacts families and the need to have an experienced and knowledgeable attorney to guide you in planning for your future. Amanda understands the impact of substance use and mental illness on families and brings this knowledge and compassion to her work in guardianships, estate planning, and complex litigation.