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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.

Attorney Norman H. Makechnie assists clients of Upton & Hatfield, LLP with matters concerning estate planning and real estate law.In addition to his legal practice, Attorney Makechnie is involved with several professional organizations, as well as local committees in the community of Peterborough where he has resided for many years. He works with the New Hampshire Estate Planning Council, the New Hampshire Bar Association, and the American Bar Association. In Peterborough, he has served on the Board of the Contoocook Valley School Board District, as the Secretary of the Monadnock Community Hospital Board of Trustees, and as the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation Regional Advisor. He has also worked with the Monadnock Community Day Care Center.

I am a founding partner of Cocheco Elder Law Associates, PLLC, and a native of the New Hampshire seacoast area. My practice is dedicated to building wealth enhancement strategies for my client families' estates and businesses, using far-reaching advanced planning to achieve preserved wealth for generations. My priority is my relationship with my client families and their personal, professional, and estate goals.. I am a member of both the New Hampshire and Maine Bars. I am admitted to practice before all courts, state and federal, in both New Hampshire and Maine. My practice includes elder law, Veterans and Medicaid planning, estate and wealth transfer planning, incapacity protection, asset protection planning, estate and trust administration, disability planning, special needs trusts, retirement asset planning, business law, and real estate.. I am a frequent lecturer on basic and sophisticated estate planning topics. I have authored articles on a variety of topics related to business law, sophisticated asset protection, estate planning, and probate administration.. I am often asked to be a guest speaker at community and professional seminars dealing with estate planning topics ranging from guardianships to complex estate planning. I was a weekly guest host of the radio show, “Money Matters,” for more than 10 years on the Money Matters Radio Network. I am currently a guest host of “Open Mic" with Mike Pomp on WTSN AM-1270 at 9:00 am on the 1st Friday of each month.. I received my B.A. degree from the University of New Hampshire and my J.D. from Ohio Northern University. I am a member of the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys and the New Hampshire Estate Planning Council. I serve on the Board of Directors of the Wentworth Douglass Hospital and Health Foundation as well as the Planned Giving Advisory Committee, Advancement Committee, and By-Laws Committee of the Foundation.. I am the past president of the Rockingham County Bar Association as well as a former Director and Executive Board member of the Derry Economic Development Corporation and an Incorporator and Executive Board member of the Community Alliance for Teen Safety (CATS).

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.