Mirele focuses her practice on estate planning, estate tax planning, and trust administration. She has experience devising and drafting estate plans, counseling clients on tax-efficient estate planning techniques, and advising clients on trust issues and administration. She also represents clients in a broad range of probate matters, including contested cases, as well as guardianship and conservatorship proceedings.
Prior to joining Mintz, Mirele was an associate and previously a law clerk at a Massachusetts estate planning law firm, where she focused on estate planning, trust administration, and probate matters.
While attending law school, Mirele served as a judicial intern for Honorable Allison D. Burroughs of the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts and worked as an environmental law clerk at a Boston-based law firm. In law school, Mirele served as a student attorney for Northeastern University School of Law’s Immigrant Justice Clinic and a research assistant for the school’s Prisoners’ Rights Clinic.
Before attending law school, Mirele served as an intern at an immigration law firm in Michigan and worked for nonprofit organizations in Nicaragua, Bolivia, Israel, and the United States. In her role as director of special projects for a nonprofit focused on citizen diplomacy in Detroit, Mirele developed international exchange programs for professionals sponsored by the Department of State.
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Can a beneficiary serve as a witness in a will contest without losing their inheritance? The Massachusetts Appeals Court says yes.
November 8, 2024 | Blog | By Mathilda McGee-Tubb, Mirele A. Sagan
In light of the McLoughlin decision and the Court’s seeming commitment to interpreting in terrorem clauses narrowly, estate planners and testators alike should keep the following considerations in mind when including in terrorem clauses in estate plans.
January 1, 2025 Deadline Is Fast Approaching for Compliance with the Corporate Transparency Act
October 29, 2024 | Advisory | By Peter Miller, Kurt Steinkrauss, Alison Glover, Susan Kealy, Quinn Hetrick, Mirele A. Sagan
Read about compliance deadlines associated with the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA), types of entities subject to CTA reporting requirements, information required in a BOI report, and filing requirements for BOI reports.
Compliance with the Corporate Transparency Act Necessary for Many Estate Planning Clients
December 13, 2023 | Alert | By Peter Miller, Kurt Steinkrauss, Alison Glover, Susan Kealy, Quinn Hetrick, Mirele A. Sagan
In this alert, we discuss the reporting entities, information to be reported, ongoing reporting requirements, and additional considerations applicable to estate planning clients.
Estate Tax Changes Included in New Massachusetts Tax Relief Package
October 6, 2023 | Alert | By Peter Miller, Kurt Steinkrauss, Alison Glover, Susan Kealy, Quinn Hetrick, Mirele A. Sagan
Read about a Massachusetts tax relief package recently signed into law, which subjects only estate assets above $2 million to state-level estate tax and makes several changes to Massachusetts income tax laws.