BRATTLEBORO — Taking Steps Brattleboro will present “Being an Executor: What you need to know,” with presenters Amelia W.L. Darrow and Robert Szpila, a free program on Thursday, Sept. 16, from 4 to 5:30 p.m., at the Brattleboro Museum and Art Center.
Have you been asked by a family member or friend to be the executor of their estate and are wondering what is involved? Or perhaps you are considering asking someone to take on this role for you? This presentation by Darrow and Szpila will help you learn more.
As an executor, you are the personal representative for someone who has died. You ensure that taxes and debts of the estate are paid off and what is left is dispersed to those designated in the will. The role can be fulfilling and helpful, as well as complicated and time consuming.
Darrow is a partner at Windham Law, PLC, in Brattleboro. Her practice focuses on estates and trusts law, elder law, and real estate. A longtime resident of southern Vermont, she received her juris doctor from Vermont Law School, cum laude. Her work has included issues of international criminal law, international and humanitarian law, immigration and refugee law, business law, and intellectual property law.
Having served on many boards in the past, she is a current board member of the Vermont Bar Foundation, the Gathering Place, the Windham County Bar Association, and the Professional Responsibility Board of the Vermont Judiciary. She lives in Brattleboro.
Szpila founded The Passing On, LLC in 2020 to help people named as the executor or administrator of an estate with its many practical and emotional requirements. He serves on the boards of Brattleboro Area Hospice, Brattleboro Rotary Club, and the Brattleboro Literary Festival. Szpila has a master's degree in divinity from Weston Jesuit School of Theology, now part of Boston College.
This presentation has been arranged by Taking Steps Brattleboro, a program of Brattleboro Area Hospice that provides free assistance to anyone in Windham County to complete their advance directive.
While this event is free, registration is required due to limited seating. Contact Brattleboro Area Hospice at 802-257-0775 or info@brattleborohospice.org to reserve a seat with your phone number or email address. COVID-19 protocols in effect at this time of this event will be followed.