Massachusetts has relatively strong gun laws, but there is at least one direction for possible improvement.
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The conversation about digital afterlife
Opinion polling is poor guide to policy as to a decedent’s email accounts, but there are some good approaches under discussion.
Who Should Have Access to Your Emails After Death?
The Supreme Court of the United States may rule on the limits of a state’s ability to require disclosure of emails to an executor.
Posthumous Email and Social Media Rights
Will recently quizzed us on whether heirs should have access to a decadent’s email accounts. He didn’t specify any other logins, but all are potentially relevant probate issues. This is a thorny knot of issues that his question only grazes. Giving heirs access to just email archives is a lot more complicated than he lets …
Retroactive application of new alimony rules
House 740, a bill before the Judiciary Committee, would reopen for dispute financial arrangements in many older divorces. I cannot support House 740 and have referred it for further study.
Once Opposed, Mass. Medical Society President Ready to Give SIFs a Try
MMS President, Dr. Henry Dorkin, authored an op-ed in STAT, a national health and medicine publication, earlier this month, charting the evolution of his thinking on establishing SIFs in Massachusetts, which he now supports.