CONNELLY LAW
Serving Rhode Island, Massachusetts and Connecticut
401-724-9400
Southern New England's Certified Elder Law Attorney
Rhode Island, Massachusetts and Connecticut Certified Elder Law Attorney
About Connelly Law
At Connelly Law, elder law is about more than legal documents. It is about protecting your independence, your family, and what you have worked a lifetime to build. Led by Professional Fiduciary and Certified Elder Law Attorney RJ Connelly III, we provide personalized guidance in estate planning, Medicaid and long-term care planning, asset protection, guardianships, probate, estate administration, and related elder law matters throughout Southern New England.
Whether you are planning ahead or facing an unexpected crisis, we are here to help you understand your options and move forward with confidence. Explore our services below for a brief look at how Connelly Law can help protect what matters most to you and your family.
Estate Planning is About Family
At Connelly Law, estate planning is about more than documents. It is about protecting the people you love, preserving what you have worked a lifetime to build, and making thoughtful decisions that provide security and peace of mind.
We take the time to understand your family, your concerns, and your goals. From wills and trusts to powers of attorney, health care planning, and asset protection, we create plans designed around what matters most to you. As life changes, a well-designed estate plan can provide clarity, protect your independence, and ensure the people you trust can act when needed. Because a good estate plan does more than protect assets. It protects the people, values, and wishes behind them. Click here to learn more.
Medicaid Planning ~ Planning. Protection. Peace of Mind.
Long-term care can create difficult financial and personal decisions for seniors and their families. At Connelly Law, we provide experienced guidance in Medicaid Planning and Medicaid Crisis Planning, helping families throughout Southern New England prepare for the cost and challenges of long-term care.
Whether you are planning ahead or facing an immediate nursing home crisis, we develop personalized strategies to protect assets, provide for a spouse, preserve the family home when possible, and help you make informed decisions with confidence. At Connelly Law, we don't simply plan for Medicaid eligibility. We help families protect what matters most. Click here to learn more.
Probate ~ Preserving Dignity and Providing Guidance
When a loved one passes away, families can quickly find themselves facing unfamiliar legal, financial, and practical responsibilities. Connelly Law provides compassionate guidance through probate, decedent estates, and estate administration, helping families manage these responsibilities and move toward resolution with confidence.
We help executors and personal representatives settle estates and, when appropriate, can serve in a fiduciary capacity. We also assist families with guardianships and conservatorships when an older or vulnerable individual requires additional protection or support. Our focus is on protecting people, preserving dignity, and providing steady guidance through some of life's most difficult transitions. Click here to learn more.
Professional Fiduciary Services ~ Trust. Care. Responsibility.
Sometimes an older adult needs trusted help managing finances, property, legal matters, health care decisions, or everyday responsibilities. Family members may live far away, be unable to take on these responsibilities, or a client may simply prefer the independence and continuity that comes with appointing an experienced professional.
Connelly Law can serve in a variety of fiduciary roles, including trustee, executor or personal representative, agent under a power of attorney, guardian, conservator, and other appointed capacities. Depending on the role, our services may include financial and asset management, bill payment, property oversight, recordkeeping, coordination with other professionals, and administration of trusts and decedent estates.
Our approach goes beyond managing money and paperwork. We focus on protecting the individual, preserving dignity and independence, and carrying out important responsibilities with professionalism, careful judgment, and respect. Click here to learn more.
Disability Services ~ Special Needs Trusts
Families want to know that a loved one with a disability will have financial security, appropriate support, and the resources for a meaningful quality of life, even when parents or other caregivers are no longer there to provide that support.
At Connelly Law, we help families develop Special Needs Trusts designed to provide for a person with a disability while protecting eligibility for important means-tested benefits such as Supplemental Security Income (SSI) and Medicaid when applicable. Leaving an inheritance directly to an individual receiving these benefits can affect eligibility, while a properly designed trust can allow assets to be managed for that person's benefit.
Our goal is to create a thoughtful plan that considers not only finances and benefits, but also the individual's future care, independence, dignity, and quality of life. Special needs planning is ultimately about more than preserving benefits. It is about protecting a person you love and preparing for the future with confidence. Click here to learn more.
Real Estate and Property Management
Managing a home can become difficult when an older adult moves, enters long-term care, or a family is settling an estate. Connelly Law provides practical property services designed to protect and maintain the home while helping families manage the responsibilities involved. Our services can include property cleanouts, ongoing security checks, routine property maintenance, and preparing a home for sale. When a sale is appropriate, we can also coordinate with our real estate professionals to help guide the property through the sales process. From maintaining and securing the property to preparing it for its next chapter, Connelly Law helps families manage the details and protect an important asset. Please click here to learn more.
Why Families Choose Connelly Law
Families turn to Connelly Law during some of life's most important transitions, whether planning for the future, helping an aging parent, preparing for long-term care, protecting a lifetime of assets, or settling a loved one's affairs.
Led by Attorney RJ Connelly III, our legal and fiduciary team provides experienced guidance in elder law, estate planning, Medicaid and long-term care planning, probate and trust administration, guardianships, and professional fiduciary services throughout Southern New England.
What distinguishes our approach is personal attention. We take the time to understand the individual, the family, and the larger picture behind every legal matter. We explain options clearly and develop practical strategies designed to protect independence, preserve dignity, and provide greater confidence for the future.
At Connelly Law, elder law is about more than assets and documents. It is about people, families, and protecting what matters most.
Serving Southern New England
Since 1970
Connelly Law is a Rhode Island elder law attorney specializing in estate planning and probate law as well as a variety of fiduciary services
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Rhode Island, Massachusetts and Connecticut Certified Elder Law Attorney
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"With over thirty years of experience in elder law, Connelly Law stands out as one of the premier law firms in Southern New England focusing on the needs of older adults and those with disabilities. Our services include asset protection, probate, Medicaid planning, estate planning, and professional fiduciary services. Call us today!"
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Phone: 401-724-9400
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CONNELLY LAW
Eastern Connecticut
Barring Emergency needs, all Connecticut appointments will be held through ZOOM or WebEx. Appointments at our main office also available.
860-440-7600
Rhode Island - Main Office
372 Broadway
Pawtucket, RI 02860
401-724-9400
Southeastern Massachusetts
Central Massachusetts
Martha's Vineyard
by special appointment or in our main office
508-316-2396
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