Kenneth F. Money

Practice Description

Kenneth F. Money, Jr., Attorney-at-Law, is a sole practitioner at Money Law Offices, P.L.L.C. in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. He concentrates his practice in the areas of estate planning, probate and trust administration, business law, real estate, and personal injury law while serving the legal needs of individuals, trusts, estates, and business clients statewide in New Hampshire, Maine, Massachusetts, and Florida. His professional goal is to provide quality legal representation for his clients in a responsive and accessible environment.

In 1991, Mr. Money received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics, magna cum laude, from the Whittemore School of Business and Economics at the University of New Hampshire, and, in 1994, his Juris Doctor degree, cum laude, from the University of Miami School of Law. While attending law school, he was the Managing Editor of the University of Miami School of Law Business Law Journal, received an American Jurisprudence Book Award in the study of Bankruptcy, was a member of the Eugene P. Spellman American Inn of Court, and was elected to the 1993-94 Who's Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges.

Attorney Money is a member of the New Hampshire Bar Association, the Rockingham County (N.H.) Bar Association, the Maine State Bar Association, the Bar of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the Florida Bar, the American Bar Association, and he is admitted to practice before the U.S. Tax Court. Attorney Money is also a member of the New Hampshire Bar Association Taxation Section, the Maine State Bar Association Trusts and Estates Section, the Florida Bar Real Property, Probate and Trust Law Section, the American Bar Association Section of Real Property, Probate and Trust Law, the New Hampshire Bar Association Lawyer Referral Service, and the Maine Bar Association Lawyer Referral Service. In addition, he is an Approved Attorney for First American Title Insurance Company in New Hampshire and Maine, and an associate member of the National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors(NAIFA).

In his estate planning practice, Attorney Money is experienced in preparing and implementing various succession plans and strategies for clients involving Advance Directives, including Durable Powers of Attorney for Financial Matters, Durable Powers of Attorney for Health Care, and Living Wills; Wills, including "Pourover" Wills and Wills providing for Testamentary Trusts; Revocable Living Trusts, for probate avoidance and Federal Estate Tax planning purposes, along with important related trust funding instruments; Special Needs Trusts; Irrevocable Trusts, including Irrevocable Life Insurance Trusts, Irrevocable Children's Trusts, Irrevocable Grandchildren's Trusts, and Charitable Trusts; and also Family Limited Partnerships. .

His estate planning practice focuses on achieving clients' goals through appropriate and orderly testamentary arrangements that minimize administration costs and Federal Estate and Gift Tax consequences. Asset protection and generation-skipping strategies may also be utilized where appropriate. Attorney Money's estate planning practice is enhanced by his ability to practice as a licensed attorney in New Hampshire, Maine, Massachusetts, and Florida. Attorney Money's interest in estate planning is reflected in his role as a member of both the New Hampshire Estate Planning Council and the Maine Estate Planning Council.

Working with clients in connection with all aspects of probate administration, Attorney Money provides comprehensive representation in the settlement of decedents' estates. He assists clients with the preparation of required Probate Court filings, Inventories, and Accountings, and advises clients regarding estate management issues such as marshalling assets, satisfying debts and taxes of decedents, and closing estates. He also represents trustees, successor trustees, and beneficiaries in connection with the administration of trusts.

Attorney Money's business law practice involves the formation of business entities such as corporations (including nonprofit and professional corporations), limited liability companies, limited partnerships, and other business associations for clients. By providing such services as annual meeting resolution preparation, shareholder agreements, buy-sell planning, business planning, and business succession planning, he also meets the ongoing needs of his business clients.

Attorney Money is a member of the Greater Portsmouth Chamber of Commerce where he has served on the Business Development Committee and is a member of the Board of Directors of the Greater Portsmouth Chamber of Commerce Foundation. The Foundation is a non-profit corporation which focuses on cultural and historic related activities which are designed to develop Portsmouth as a visitor destination. Attorney Money serves on the Board of Directors of The Learning Skills Academy as well. The Academy is a private, state-approved, special education day school located in Rye, New Hampshire, for students with language learning difficulties from across New Hampshire, Maine, and Massachusetts. Attorney Money also serves on the Board of Directors of the Seacoast Area Widowed Persons Service, Inc., an organization under the sponsorship of AARP with financial support from the Greater Seacoast United Way and local patrons, which conducts an outreach program in which trained widowed volunteers offer support to newly widowed persons.

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Money Law Offices, P.L.L.C.
118 Maplewood Avenue, Suite B4
P.O. Box 1144
Portsmouth, NH 03802-1144

Robert A. Wells

Education:

• DePauw, B.A. (with distinction and honors), 1964
• University of Michigan Law School, J.D. (cum laude), 1967

Bar/Court Admissions:

• New York Bar Association 1968
• New Hampshire Bar Association 1971
• United States Tax Court 1973
• United States Supreme Court 1976
• U.S. Military Court of Appeals 1978
• Missouri Bar Association 1981

Employment:

• Dewey, Ballantine, Bushby, Palmer & Wood, New York, New York 1967 to 1968
• United States Navy, Lieutenant 1968 to 1970
• McLane, Graf, Raulerson & Middleton, Professional Association
  Manchester, New Hampshire April, 1971 to present, Director since 1977

Community Activities:

• Member, Board of Directors of New Hampshire Lung Association, 1974 to present (President, 1980-1981); Received Robert B. Kerr Award 1988.
• Member, Board of Directors, American Lung Association (National), 1982 to 1994; Member, Executive Committee, 1987 to present; Vice President, 1990.
• Member, St. Andrew's Episcopal Church, Hopkinton, N.H., 1971 to present, (Vestry member 1974-1977; Warden 1979-1985).-Trustee, Protestant Episcopal Church of New Hampshire, 1985 to present.
• Member, Board of Directors, United Church of Christ Retirement Community, Inc. (Havenwood-Heritage Heights), 1994 to present.-Chair, State Advisory Committee (NH) to the United States Civil Rights Commission, 1985-1989.
• Member, Board of Directors, Pat's Peak Educational Foundation, Inc., 1982-1987; Vice President, 1985; President and Chairman of the Board, 1986; Chairman of Board, 1987.
• Member, Board of Trustees, Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests, 1988 to present.
• Member, Board of Directors, Central New Hampshire Community Mental Health Services, Inc., 1990 to 1994.
• Incorporator, New Hampshire Charitable Fund, 1990. -Member, Board of Directors, Hopkinton Youth Soccer Association, 1987-1988.-Member, Town of Hopkinton (NH) Planning Board, 1977-1979; Co-Chairman, Hopkinton Master Plan Revision Committee, 1986-1988.
• Member, Town of Hopkinton Budget Committee, 1990 to present.
• Member, Board of Directors, New Hampshire Business Committee for the Arts, 1994 to present.
• Member, Board of Trustees, Concord Community Music School, 1996 to present.

Professional Assn. Activities, Honors and Awards:

• Member, American College of Trust and Estate Counsel, 1988 to present.
• Member, National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys, 1993 to present.
• Chair, Elderly Legal Development Program of the New Hampshire Bar Association, 1978-1981.
• Member, Continuing Legal Education Program of the New Hampshire Bar Association, 1979 to 1985; Chair, 1981-1983; 1991 to present.
• Member, Fee Dispute Resolution Committee of the New Hampshire Bar Association, 1986 to 1991.
• Co-Chair, Real Property, Probate and Trust Section of the New Hampshire Bar Association, 1988 to 1991.
• Member, Elder Law Section of the New Hampshire Bar Association 1990 to present.
• Member, Ethics Commission of the New Hampshire Bar Association, 1991 to 1993.
• Member, International Association of Financial Planners, 1985 to present.
• Member, Education Committee, 1985 to present.-Adjunct Professor of Law, Franklin Pierce Law Center, 1990 to 1999.

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McLane, Graf, Raulerson & Middleton
Hatfield Road
Manchester, NH. 03229