Estate Planning Attorney Serving Lowell, MA

Lowell is one of the most varied cities in Massachusetts, and estate planning here rarely looks like the textbook example. Multi-generational households, two- and three-family properties, family businesses, adult children living at home, relatives abroad — these are the situations where the state's default rules produce the worst outcomes, because intestacy law knows nothing about who actually lives in the house or who has been providing care.

Those are exactly the circumstances a plan is built for. A will names who inherits and who administers the estate. A durable power of attorney lets a specific adult child handle finances without a court conservatorship. A health care proxy names one medical decision-maker so a hospital is not fielding competing instructions from a large family. And where a two- or three-family property is involved, how the deed is titled often matters more than anything in the will — a detail that goes unnoticed until it is too late to change.

Lowell is in Middlesex County, so estates here are administered through the Middlesex Probate and Family Court. Our office is a short drive up Route 3 in Westford, and the first consultation is free.