News & Events
Continuing Legal Education “CLE”, Legal Clinics & Seminars:Attorney Younger will be presenting at the following CLE courses in 2023:
2023 Free Legal Clinic (Beverly Council on Aging) 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM:
- January 20, 2023
- April 20, 2023
- July 21, 2023
- October 20, 2023
Additionally, Attorney Younger frequently gives presentations with the Massachusetts Bar Association, Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education, Committee for Public Counsel Services, among other organizations.
Massachusetts Estate Tax:
Massachusetts has the nation’s lowest threshold for its state estate tax, which kicks in at only $1,000,000. This threshold has been stagnant since 2006, despite efforts on Beacon Hill to update the law. In 2019, the Senate established a “Revenue Working Group” to study revenue statewide, however the COVID-19 pandemic stymied those efforts. Thereafter, in 2022, Beacon Hill appeared poised to update it, however in the overnight hours of August 1, 2022 lawmakers failed to reach an agreement (the apparent frontrunner proposal was to update the threshold to $2,000,000). Today, the law remains unchanged with the threshold at $1,000,000.
Virtual Notarization, Witnessing & Signing:
Massachusetts enacted “An Act providing for virtual notarization to address challenges related to COVID-19” on April 23, 2020, becoming the 45th U.S. State to permit virtual notarization. The Act amended Chapter 222 of the General Laws, by adding videoconferencing capabilities for signing certain legal documents, including estate planning and real estate documents, during the Governor’s COVID-19 Pandemic State of Emergency (March 10, 2020 through June 15, 2021).
- Joblin spoke with 7News’ Investigative Reporter Hank Phillippi Ryan and with Newburyport Daily News’ Christian M. Wade about the need for the law.