Michelle Lavoie Beyer
Background
Michelle Lavoie Beyer is an Associate in Cummings & Lockwood’s Private Clients Group and is based in the West Hartford Office.
She advises high net worth individuals and families with complex needs on a variety of trust and estate matters including estate and gift tax planning, generational estate planning, planning for blended families, second marriages and same sex couples, divorce and creditor protection, trustee changes, planning for business owners, planning with out-of-state real estate and planning for “snowbirds.”
She develops sophisticated estate plans for clients and drafts estate planning documents including, but not limited to, wills, revocable trusts, irrevocable trusts, life insurance trusts, powers of attorney, advance medical directives, living wills, disposition of remains and anatomical gifts, trust and will revocations, rights of first refusal, no contest clauses, property transfers and appointments of guardian for minor children.
Practice Areas
Education
- University of Connecticut School of Law (J.D. with a certificate in Insurance Law and Regulation, 2023)
- Western New England University School of Law (LL.M. in Elder Law and Estate Planning, December, 2023)
- Florida International University (M.S. in International Real Estate Management, 2020)
- University of Massachusetts (B.S. in Hospitality and Tourism Management, 2016)
Bar Admissions
- Connecticut, 2023
- Florida, 2024
Professional Organizations
- Connecticut Bar Association, Elder Law, Tax, and Estates & Probate Sections
- Chair of the Necrology Committee, Connecticut Bar Association, Real Property Section
- Commercial Real Estate for Women (CREW), Member
- Estate and Business Planning Council of Hartford, Member
- Western Connecticut Estate and Tax Planning Council, Member
Civic and Philanthropic Activity
- Middletown Lions Club, Member
- iCouldBe.org, Mentor
Associate
Blue Back Square
75 Isham Road, Suite 400
West Hartford,
CT
06107
T 860-313-4925
F 860.313.4986
Background
Michelle Lavoie Beyer is an Associate in Cummings & Lockwood’s Private Clients Group and is based in the West Hartford Office.
She advises high net worth individuals and families with complex needs on a variety of trust and estate matters including estate and gift tax planning, generational estate planning, planning for blended families, second marriages and same sex couples, divorce and creditor protection, trustee changes, planning for business owners, planning with out-of-state real estate and planning for “snowbirds.”
She develops sophisticated estate plans for clients and drafts estate planning documents including, but not limited to, wills, revocable trusts, irrevocable trusts, life insurance trusts, powers of attorney, advance medical directives, living wills, disposition of remains and anatomical gifts, trust and will revocations, rights of first refusal, no contest clauses, property transfers and appointments of guardian for minor children.
- University of Connecticut School of Law (J.D. with a certificate in Insurance Law and Regulation, 2023)
- Western New England University School of Law (LL.M. in Elder Law and Estate Planning, December, 2023)
- Florida International University (M.S. in International Real Estate Management, 2020)
- University of Massachusetts (B.S. in Hospitality and Tourism Management, 2016)
- Connecticut, 2023
- Florida, 2024
- Connecticut Bar Association, Elder Law, Tax, and Estates & Probate Sections
- Chair of the Necrology Committee, Connecticut Bar Association, Real Property Section
- Commercial Real Estate for Women (CREW), Member
- Estate and Business Planning Council of Hartford, Member
- Western Connecticut Estate and Tax Planning Council, Member
- Middletown Lions Club, Member
- iCouldBe.org, Mentor