Elizabeth H. Sillin

Biography:

Liz Sillin is a member of the firm’s Estate Planning and Administration Department, the Schools, Universities and Colleges Practice Group and the Health Law Practice Group. Liz works with individuals in all areas of estate and gift tax planning and administration. Liz works with nonprofit institutions, assisting with formation and operational issues, including regulatory compliance as well as providing advice regarding charitable trusts and endowments.

Liz is active in a variety of professional and community volunteer organizations. She represents the Massachusetts Bar Association on a state committee studying the spousal elective share statute, and is a member of various state and local bar associations and professional estate planning associations. Liz also is a trustee of Greenfield Community College, a board member of the Franklin Land Trust and a member of the distribution committee of the Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts. Liz is a frequent speaker on estate planning and related issues, and has been named as a “Massachusetts Rising Star” in the 2005 through 2008 issues of Boston Magazine in the area of Trusts and Estate Planning.

Related Professional Experience:

Liz served as law clerk to the Honorable John M. Greaney of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court before coming to Bulkley, Richardson and Gelinas.

Publications:

Co-author, “How to Probate an Estate”: MBA 2007-2009.

Representative Experience:

Design estate plans that address tax planning and family concerns such as young children, divorce, remarriage, unmarried couples and individuals with special needs, family business succession, second homes, intellectual property and special assets.

Assist with charitable gifting plans, as well as lifetime intergenerational transfers and related tax planning.

Counsels fiduciaries in the interpretation and administration of all kinds of trusts.

Assist clients with the formation and operation of tax-exempt organizations.