Our firm has been given the highest available rating (AV) from Martindale-Hubbell for our legal ability in our areas of practice and our ethical standards. Lander & Lander, P.C., is a boutique law firm located in Framingham, Massachusetts that has, since its inception, limited its practice to two specialized areas of the law: sophisticated estate planning and probate administration and complex domestic relations litigation and appeals.
Our Probate and Estate team of experienced attorneys is committed to providing our clients with detailed, personalized and timely advice on intricate estate and tax planning matters to ensure a smooth transfer of wealth to the next generation.
Our Domestic Relations team offers the highest quality of negotiation, trial and appellate advocacy in sophisticated matrimonial matters, and handles every phase of domestic relations litigation including: negotiating and drafting prenuptial, postnuptial and separation/divorce agreements, trying divorce, custody and removal matters, post-divorce modification and contempt actions, and prosecuting/defending appeals.
Our Probate and Estate team of experienced attorneys is committed to providing our clients with detailed, personalized and timely advice on intricate estate and tax planning matters to ensure a smooth transfer of wealth to the next generation.
Our Domestic Relations team offers the highest quality of negotiation, trial and appellate advocacy in sophisticated matrimonial matters, and handles every phase of domestic relations litigation including: negotiating and drafting prenuptial, postnuptial and separation/divorce agreements, trying divorce, custody and removal matters, post-divorce modification and contempt actions, and prosecuting/defending appeals.
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Jay is a founding partner of Lander & Lander.
He is a graduate of both Harvard College and Harvard Law School, and has practiced exclusively in the area of sophisticated estate planning, estate administration and related taxation since 1962.
In addition to the above, Jay provides legal advice in connection with the administration of estates, including and without limitation, estate tax compliance and the liquidation and distribution of estate and trust assets.
Prior to establishing Lander & Lander, Jay served as a tax attorney for the Office of the Regional Counsel of the Internal Revenue Service in New York City, and was associated with, and later became a partner of, the Framingham law firm of Sheridan, Garrahan & Lander (which later merged with the Worcester law firm of Bowditch & Dewey) where he practiced estate planning and tax law.
He is a graduate of both Harvard College and Harvard Law School, and has practiced exclusively in the area of sophisticated estate planning, estate administration and related taxation since 1962.
In addition to the above, Jay provides legal advice in connection with the administration of estates, including and without limitation, estate tax compliance and the liquidation and distribution of estate and trust assets.
Prior to establishing Lander & Lander, Jay served as a tax attorney for the Office of the Regional Counsel of the Internal Revenue Service in New York City, and was associated with, and later became a partner of, the Framingham law firm of Sheridan, Garrahan & Lander (which later merged with the Worcester law firm of Bowditch & Dewey) where he practiced estate planning and tax law.
Charlene A. Caldeira joined Lander & Lander, P.C., as a partner in 2017.
She came to the firm with almost 20 years of litigation experience in the Boston area.
Charlene has established herself as a premier family law and appellate attorney in Massachusetts.
Charlene has extensive experience in a wide variety of family law issues and has focused her practice in family law since 1999, after she clerked for the Honorable Justice Neil L. Lynch of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court.
Charlene also focuses her practice on appellate law and has co-authored the 2nd Edition of Appellate Procedure of the Massachusetts Practice Series.
She came to the firm with almost 20 years of litigation experience in the Boston area.
Charlene has established herself as a premier family law and appellate attorney in Massachusetts.
Charlene has extensive experience in a wide variety of family law issues and has focused her practice in family law since 1999, after she clerked for the Honorable Justice Neil L. Lynch of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court.
Charlene also focuses her practice on appellate law and has co-authored the 2nd Edition of Appellate Procedure of the Massachusetts Practice Series.
Attorneys Jay J. Lander and Michelle L. Feinberg concentrate their practice in all aspects of estate planning, including the preparation of wills, trusts, durable powers of attorney, health care proxies, and HIPAA Authorizations to provide for the disposition of an individual's property upon incapacity or death, and to provide for end of life decisions.
There are many issues to consider in implementing an estate plan.
Clients have the opportunity in their wills to nominate a legal guardian for their minor children and to preserve and provide management of family assets and protect such assets from creditors through the utilization of trusts.
There are many issues to consider in implementing an estate plan.
Clients have the opportunity in their wills to nominate a legal guardian for their minor children and to preserve and provide management of family assets and protect such assets from creditors through the utilization of trusts.
A will provides instructions for distributing your assets to your family and other beneficiaries upon your death.
An attorney will draft its provisions to meet your needs.
You appoint a representative, known as an executor, to distribute your assets.
If you have minor children, you will designate a guardian for them.
The guardian will have the legal authority with regard to your children's welfare.
You should have a trustee to control the assets you leave children until an agreed age of maturity.
An attorney will draft its provisions to meet your needs.
You appoint a representative, known as an executor, to distribute your assets.
If you have minor children, you will designate a guardian for them.
The guardian will have the legal authority with regard to your children's welfare.
You should have a trustee to control the assets you leave children until an agreed age of maturity.
There are many different types of trusts with different purposes, each accomplishing a variety of goals.
A revocable living trust is one type of trust often used in an estate plan.
By transferring assets to a revocable trust, you can provide for continued management of your financial affairs during your lifetime (when you're incapacitated, for example), at your death, and even for generations to come.
If married, your revocable living trust can provide substantial estate tax savings for both state and federal estate tax purposes.
A revocable living trust is one type of trust often used in an estate plan.
By transferring assets to a revocable trust, you can provide for continued management of your financial affairs during your lifetime (when you're incapacitated, for example), at your death, and even for generations to come.
If married, your revocable living trust can provide substantial estate tax savings for both state and federal estate tax purposes.
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