Hi Marcia, There are a number of good estate attorneys in the area. I will mention three in particular. In addition, I'll give one tip related to the intersection of investing / financial planning and estate matters. My Three Seunghee Cha and Bill Hart at Bulkley, Richardson & Gelinas have offices in both Amherst and Springfield. In Northampton, consider Shelly Steuer. I have worked with all three on shared clients and we refer to each other without any referral fees. Estate planning and tax estate planning are important and don't take very long to set up. One item to check that is at the intersection of financial planning and investing, what we do, and estate planning are named beneficiaries. Investment accounts and insurance policies often name beneficiaries specifically. If your intentions change, change those beneficiaries accordingly. I'm not an attorney and this is not legal advice; in my opinion, naming a beneficiary may be honored regardless of what a will stipulates. Good luck Marcia and feel free to contact me off line with any questions. Sincerely, Andrew -- Andrew Bellak CEO Registered Investment Advisor andrew at StakeHoldersCapital.com www.StakeHoldersCapital.com (o) 888-STK-HLDR (785-4537) x.2 (f) 888-735-HLDR (4537) (m) 646-552-5783 skype = andrewbellak twitter = andystkhldrscap This message is intended only for the personal and confidential use of the designated recipient(s) named above. If you are not the intended recipient of this message you are hereby notified that any review, dissemination, distribution or copying of this message is strictly prohibited. This communication is for information purposes only and should not be regarded as an offer to sell or as a solicitation of an offer to buy any financial product, an official confirmation of any transaction, or as an official statement of Stakeholders Capital. Email transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free. Therefore, we do not represent that this information is complete or accurate and it should not be relied upon as such. All information is subject to change without notice. This e-mail may be considered advertising under federal law. If you do not want to receive similar commercial electronic mail messages in the future from Stakeholders Capital, you may change your e-mail preferences at any time by contacting our office. Please consider the environment before printing this email. -----Original Message----- From: hidden-discuss-bounces at lists.hidden-tech.net [mailto:hidden-discuss-bounces at lists.hidden-tech.net] On Behalf Of Marcia Yudkin Sent: Saturday, November 14, 2015 7:01 AM To: Hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net Subject: [Hidden-tech] Need recommendation for attorney - help on wills Anyone have personal experience leading you to recommend a particular attorney who handles wills - preferably in Northampton? If so, please add a sentence or two to your recommendation saying what you liked about that attorney. I did check the Hidden-Tech archives and didn't see anything on this topic. Thank you! Marcia Yudkin Goshen _______________________________________________ Hidden-discuss mailing list - home page: http://www.hidden-tech.net Hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net You are receiving this because you are on the Hidden-Tech Discussion list. If you would like to change your list preferences, Go to the Members page on the Hidden Tech Web site. http://www.hidden-tech.net/members ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the Symantec Email Security.cloud service. For more information please visit http://www.symanteccloud.com ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the Symantec Email Security.cloud service. For more information please visit http://www.symanteccloud.com ______________________________________________________________________