Strategic Legal Guidance
For Planning Your Future With Success
The law firm of Stillman & Associates, LLC, provides dedicated assistance to families and individuals planning for their future, who seek the necessary guidance and support to lead and assist them. From an office in Guilford, attorney Matthew T. Stillman provides comprehensive legal services in the fields of estate planning, elder law, crisis/noncrisis Medicaid planning, veterans’ benefits, and residential real estate purchases and sales throughout central and eastern Connecticut.
Based In Guilford, Stillman & Associates, LLC, Helps Clients Across Central And Eastern Connecticut
Let’s Put a Life Plan Together
Attorney Stillman believes in empowering clients to choose their own path rather than forcing them down a predetermined route.
When assisting clients formulate an estate plan, consulting on an elder law strategy, or advising on other matters, he focuses on the client’s wishes in order for them to obtain their desired outcome(s). No situation has a “one size fits all” solution, which is why he reviews each client’s situation directly with them. After listening their concerns, attorney Stillman often creates and/or drafts unique solutions and/or options for them. Often, he recommends strategies that are not suggested or provided elsewhere.
Practice Areas
Estate Planning
Elder Law And Medicaid Planning
Veterans’ Benefits
Commercial Traffic Tickets
Residential Real Estate
A Trusted Resource
For Estate Planning, Elder Law, Medicaid Planning And Veterans’ Benefits
Stillman & Associates, LLC, takes great pride in how it assists older residents and their families plan to their future, whether they seek assistance in the areas of:
Estate planning: In regards to their estate plan documents, reviews of their healthcare proxies, wills, and trusts
Elder law issues: crisis and non-crisis Medicaid planning, creation or reporting special needs trusts, ABLE accounts, and/or planning with veterans’ benefits.
Attorney Stillman’s work in these fields (amongst others) has earned him a reputation of excellence, both as a legal representative and as an advocate for his clients.
Why You Need A Local
Estate Planning Attorney In Connecticut
Here is why Stillman & Associates, LLC, is unique from both large, national estate planning/Medicaid companies and AI/online guidance:
Connecticut is only one of five 209(b) states that follow different Medicaid laws. Generic online recommendations or advice that is applicable to other states doesn’t necessarily apply to Connecticut families. Generic and/or national planning advice may not take advantage of local laws and/or local Medicaid exceptions; local counsel is needed in Connecticut.
AI advice is generally comprised from laws that are inapplicable to Connecticut. Similarly, national Elder Law companies usually don’t follow Connecticut-specific advice and/or miss out on local Medicaid planning opportunities.
Online AI, national estate planning companies, or Medicaid planning companies often have employees (not lawyers) who provide incorrect procedural advice or miss planning opportunities. Financial managers who take on these tasks, professionals in other fields, and even attorneys who practice in other fields, provide insufficient or incorrect procedural guidance based on national, not local, rules and exceptions The incorrect advice can result in financial waste and/or an incorrect course to follow, sometimes to their clients’ detriment. Once the wrong “course” is pursued, the situation may be irreversible, as the individuals may have either lost capacity and/or died. The subsequent result is that their families are then “stuck” with an incorrect and/or incomplete estate plan and/or Medicaid plan.
We are often asked to address estate plans, Medicaid plans, or asked to review estate documents for clients who have been provided incorrect or incomplete information. Financial managers, accountants, out-of-state counsel, etc….often seek our advice on local estate and Medicaid plans.
We encourage any/all clients seeking legal advice/counsel in Connecticut to engage local attorneys in these fields (even if not our office) to ensure they receive correct advise/counsel. We encourage people to ensure their hard earned livelihoods are properly managed.
People generally work 40 hrs/weekly, 50 weeks/annually, for a period of 40 years; this equates to 80,000 hours worked over one’s life. Our office’s goal is to ensure that money earned during one’s lifetime of work is well planned and accounted for as part of their estate plans and/or Medicaid plans. We welcome the opportunity to consult with clients, even if only taking only a few hours to review their current status, current documents, and advise them accordingly to update their existing estate and/or Medicaid plans.
Experienced Legal Guidance
In Residential Real Estate
Beyond his work in the fields of estate planning, Medicaid, elder law and veterans’ benefits, attorney Stillman assists his clients with residential real estate sales and purchases locally in Connecticut. Stillman & Associates, LLC, often represents clients in this area, and offers counsel on these transactions and refinances.
Meet Your Attorney
Matthew T. Stillman
Help With Commercial Traffic Tickets
And NYC Parking Tickets
Attorney Stillman started his professional career in defending commercial clients with parking and traffic tickets in New York City’s administrative law courts. His firm helped create the defenses for parking violations in New York State, and he developed a business defending against those violations in multiple jurisdictions.
Despite relocating to Connecticut, Stillman & Associates, LLC, still provides parking and traffic ticket defense for a select number of companies within the Tri-State area, including New York City. Stillman & Associates, LLC, also assists his corporate clients nationally, with defenses to traffic and administrative violations across the continental United States.
What
Clients Say
Contact The Firm
To Start Building Your Plan Today
The greatest compliment(s) Stillman & Associates, LLC, receives are the repeated referrals and repeat business from other attorneys and financial experts, often for themselves and/or their own family members, in our areas of practice. There is likely no greater recognition of our expertise than when people with knowledge and experience in our areas of expertise seek our firm’s advice and counsel.
If there’s an area of law in which you require assistance, please do not hesitate to contact attorney Stillman and Stillman & Associates, LLC. If we are unable to provide the needed assistance, we will advise the client accordingly and help them obtain expert guidance in that area. We want to be your first call and/or to help you find a solution to your issues. Please contact our office at 860-764-2980 and/or use the online contact form below.