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While in college at the University of Delaware, Marta was drawn towards issues of social justice in society after working as a research assistant in a social psychology laboratory that focused on understanding intergroup bias and racism. She knew studying law would be the next logical step. Following graduation, Marta interned at the Delaware Department of Justice in the Family Unit, where she gained valuable experience in the criminal justice system and advocating for victims' rights. While in law school, Marta worked for Murray Richman, Esquire, a well-known criminal defense attorney in New York City. This position gave Marta experience in the New York State courts and the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York. Following law school, Marta worked for the Delaware State Courts, educating defendants about the criminal justice system. She values face-to-face interaction and helping individuals solve problems. While she was earning her Legum Magister at Delaware Law School, she worked for JP Morgan Chase & Co., conducting legal research and reviewing clients' legal documents. She worked for several years in private practice at a boutique estate planning and estate administration firm in Wilmington, Delaware. During this time, Marta earned a certificate in Estate Planning from Villanova University - Charles Widger School of Law’s Graduate Tax Program.. Marta is a member of the American Bar Association, the Delaware State Bar Association, the Alternative Dispute Resolution and Trust and Estates Sections of the Delaware State Bar Association. She frequently is appointed by the Delaware Chancery Court to serve as Attorney ad Litem for disabled adults.. Marta grew up in Newark, Delaware. She is a Newark High School alumna and a proud Blue Hen. She is a founding member of the Theta Delta chapter of Alpha Delta Pi where she served as the Music Chair. She volunteers at the Ronald McDonald House of Delaware and she is the immediate past Family Engagement Chair of the Red Shoe Society.. She enjoys the Delaware beaches, Walt Disney World, and playing trivia with friends.

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.