Personal Finance

Overview of basic estate planning, including Wills, Powers of Attorney, Health Care Directives. Kathryn Bedell is a law partner at Ballou & Bedell in York and has been practicing for 30 years. Her practice focuses on estate planning, asset preservation, and probate matters.

Learn how revocable trusts can help avoid probate and protect your privacy, and how irrevocable trusts can protect your assets from nursing home or MaineCare (Medicaid) liens.  Discussion will include other strategies to safeguard assets from life events such as business failure or divorce of adult children. Kathryn Bedell is a law partner at Ballou & Bedell in York and has been practicing for 30 years. Her practice focuses on estate planning, asset preservation, and probate matters.

It is recommended that students take the basic estate planning class first.