Scuteri Law Group, PLLC

Jennifer is an estate and trust litigator with many years of success in both Florida and Massachusetts recovering diverted inheritances, including life insurance policies, retirement accounts and family homes. She represents trustees, beneficiaries and wrongfully excluded heirs. She is also experienced in all aspects of estate planning including blended families and second marriages, trusts, charitable giving, durable powers of attorney, Medicaid Planning and wealth transfer strategies and succession planning for family businesses. She is a strong negotiator and often finds compromise and resolves disputes using mediation and arbitration instead of dividing families over estate and inheritance matters.

In addition to her expertise in estate planning and litigation, Ms. Scuteri also brings over a decade of experience in tax and corporate matters having represented an $11 billion cable television company as in-house tax counsel.

Ms. Scuteri has recovered millions of dollars for her plaintiff clients and has successfully defended trustees and caregiver children having obtained a defense verdict on all counts in a family litigation over a family home, received a favorable decision at the Appeals level defending an elderly mother’s competency and obtained a winning decision protecting an elderly woman’s home from a Medicaid lien. On the corporate and tax side, Jennifer’s accomplishments include a multi-million-dollar settlement representing 7 plaintiffs in their recovery from a fraudulent tax shelter investment.

Ms. Scuteri has both high wealth and moderate wealth clients working with them to develop a personalized estate plan, that addresses their family dynamic. Jennifer also serves as a trustee and trust protector to large trusts, drawing on her expertise as a tax attorney and her master’s in accounting.

Ms. Scuteri has served on the Board of the Essex County Bar Association and in Florida, serves on voter protection and environmental boards.

Politically, Ms. Scuteri was elected for two terms to the Hamilton Board of Selectman where she served as Chairman and then went on to be elected as the Town of Hamilton’s first woman, Town Moderator.

Jennifer also served as Chairman to the Patton Advisory Committee, tasked to oversee the property donated to the Town of Hamilton from the family of General Patton. Ms. Scuteri works extensively to provide recognition of veterans and for her efforts received the American Legion Certificate of Appreciation by the Veterans of Hamilton, Massachusetts.