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Basics of Estate Planning and Special Needs Trusts

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Please join MitoAction as we welcome Annette Hines, Esq., founding partner of the Special Needs Law Group of Massachusetts. Ms. Hines will be speaking on the basics of estate planning and special needs trusts laws in the U.S. Questions to be answered include:

  • What is estate planning?
  • Why should you create a plan for your estate?
  • What does a will do?
  • What is probate, and which assets go through it?
  • What is a trust?
  • What documents are required for incapacity planning?
  • What is a special needs trust, and why would you need one?
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About the Speaker

Annette Hines, Esq

Annette Hines, Esq

Annette M. Hines is the founding partner of Special Needs Law Group of Massachusetts, PC and has been practicing in the areas of Special Needs, Elder Law and Estate Planning for over twenty years. Her clients include individuals and families of children with special needs, the elderly, and others in the community. She received her BA for the University of Vermont, her MBA from Suffolk University, and her JD from Howard University School of Law.

Ms. Hines brings personal experience with special needs to her practice, as the mother of two daughters, one of whom passed away from Mitochondrial disease in November 2013. This deep personal understanding of special needs fuels her passion for quality special needs planning and drives her dedication to the practice.

Recognized as a Distinguished Citizen by ARC Massachusetts and cited for public service by both the Massachusetts State Senate and House of Representatives, Ms. Hines works tirelessly on behalf of people with disabilities. She was designated a 2016 Top Women of Law from Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly and has been named to the Massachusetts Super Lawyers list every year since 2014.

Ms. Hines is a frequent expert speaker and a regular contributor to ThriveGlobal. She is also the host of the weekly podcast Parenting Impossible: The Special Needs Survival Podcast, where she offers inspiration, support, expertise, and a wide range of discussions that will help you survive and thrive as you support your loved one with special needs.

Ms. Hines is also the author of Butterflies and Second Chances: A Mom’s Memoir of Love and Loss, the inspiring true story of a mother’s special needs journey, and her struggle to secure the best possible life for her child in the face of bureaucratic resistance and marital crisis. It is a story of sacrifice, dedication, and the life-altering adjustments a special needs parent has to make when confronted with the unthinkable. But most of all, it’s about love and an extraordinary mother-daughter relationship that flourished without words in the darkest shadows of adversity.

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