Private Wealth Law

Practice Overview

Drummond Woodsum’s estate planning and administration team provides a broad array of personal legal services to help our clients accomplish their estate planning goals. In addition to preparing wills, trust agreements, financial powers of attorney, and advance health care directives, which are the foundation of almost all estate plans and are carefully tailored to meet our clients’ specific needs and wishes, we also advise individuals and families on gift and estate taxation, succession planning for business interests and the ownership of family camp/vacation home real estate, charitable giving, retirement plans, pre-marital agreements, planning for incapacity and general tax planning, and other estate planning and administration services.

We represent personal representatives, trustees, and beneficiaries in the administration of trusts and estates and pride ourselves in being able to efficiently implement and put to the test the estate plans we designed for our clients during their lifetime. We also have extensive experience in all types of proceedings in probate courts throughout the State of Maine, including guardianships, conservatorships, adoptions, and will and trust interpretation and administration issues. In collaboration with our firm’s Trial Services Group, we are able to provide skilled representation in all types of contested probate, will, and trust matters.