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The Estate Planning Clinic provides direct client representation on estate planning and probate, guardianship, debt counseling, and private insurance cases. The practice helps individuals maximize control over decision-making and secure their children’s future in the event of incapacity or death through the drafting of wills, trusts, powers of attorney, health care proxies, funeral planning directives, living wills, guardianships and relationship agreements. The practice also assists survivors and family members in probating the estates of deceased clients. While the Clinic offers legal services to low- and middle-income individuals in our community, we specialize in serving people living with HIV/AIDS, the disabled and the frail elderly. Estate Planning Clinic guardianship and contested estate probate cases involve representing clients at hearings before state probate court judges
Student work in the Clinic involves extensive client interviewing and counseling, and often requires frequent communications/negotiations with medical providers, employers and their human resources departments, creditors and insurance companies. Students work closely with clients to develop comprehensive estate plans, analyze government and private insurance benefits, assess clients’ financial situations and when necessary provide debt counseling and bankruptcy services.
For academic year 2008-2009, students wishing to enroll in this clinic must enroll in the Health, Disability and Planning: Law and Policy Clinical Workshop A (fall) or B (spring). We also encourage interested students to concurrently enroll in any of the following courses: Legal Profession: Delivery of Legal Services (A or B); Legal Profession: The Lawyering Process (A2 or B1); Legal Needs of Moderate Income Clients (fall); Trusts and Estates (A or B).
The Estate Planning Clinic is part of the Center’s Health, Disability and Planning Practice Group. For more information on the Clinic, contact Robert Greenwald, Senior Clinical Instructor and Managing Attorney, and Lecturer on Law, at rgreenwa@law.harvard.edu, (617) 390-2584 |
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