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Planning for the life of your special needs child after you’re gone can be stressful. Working with specialized professionals and companies can help.

Britt Dorton is preparing to go to law school to become an attorney who focuses on disability and prisoner’s rights.

Here are some steps you can take to ensure your finances are in order in an emergency.

From wills to advanced directives, these legal moves can help protect LGBTQ+ families in the event of a serious illness or death.

Trying to be a good, law-abiding citizen in Massachusetts? It may be harder than you think. We found and rated some of Massachusetts’ weirdest laws, ones that could easily be broken.

Myanmar’s ousted leaders Aung San Suu Kyi and Win Myint have not been given their full “pre-trial rights,” according to a lawyer representing both of them.

Aside from the price tag of divorce, other parts of the process can unexpectedly end up costing one spouse if not handled properly.

If you are considering divorce or are already in the midst of it, be aware that division-of-asset mistakes can result in unanticipated taxes.

The former administrative assistant for a Massachusetts police department is facing larceny charges after an audit determined about $5,200 in cash payments for firearms licenses was missing.

New Hampshire state police say a driver has been accused of traveling at 120 miles an hour on Interstate 95.

Police allege a Worcester boxer knocked a man unconscious outside a local restaurant. Khiary Gray was arraigned on numerous charges included assault and battery and unarmed robbery on Nov. 22. Officer Trevis Coleman alleges that Gray and several others knocked a man to the ground and then robbed him while he was unconscious.

John Bolton’s attorney suggested Tuesday that a court order directing former White House counsel Don McGahn to appear before Congress has no bearing on whether his client and another ex-national security official he represents will testify. The statement from attorney Charles Cooper aimed to blunt public speculation that the judge’s order in the McGahn case could influence the actions of...

The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a Maryland man’s bid for a new trial based on information uncovered by the hit podcast “Serial.”

In September, Amer Fakhoury closed his New Hampshire restaurant to take his first vacation in years to visit family in his native Lebanon — a country he hadn’t been to for nearly two decades. He hasn’t returned to the United States. Soon after his arrival in Lebanon, the 57-year-old American citizen was detained by authorities and remains jailed there. Doctors...

Geena Davis testified Thursday that she does not believe she was ever legally married to a plastic surgeon who filed for divorce from her in 2018 even though a video of a 2001 ceremony shows her vowing to love him as her husband until death.

The driver convicted in the death of a Massachusetts State Police trooper on the turnpike in 2017 was sentenced to 5-7 years in prison on Thursday.

The lawyer of one of the two American teenagers jailed in Rome over the slaying of a Carabinieri police officer says their trial has been fast-tracked and will begin early next year.

Lawyers for the victims of sex offender Jeffrey Epstein say Prince Andrew should speak to U.S. investigators immediately, after the senior British royal withdrew from public duties over what he called his “ill-judged association” with the convicted pedophile. U.S. attorney Gloria Allred said Andrew should contact American authorities “without conditions and without delay.” Andrew announced Wednesday that he was pulling...

The man found guilty of multiple charges in the death of a 44-year-old Massachusetts State Police trooper learned his fate on Thursday afternoon. David Njuguna, of Webster, was sentenced to 5-7 years in prison in the crash that killed Trooper Thomas Clardy on the Massachusetts Turnpike in Charlton on March 16, 2016. Njuguna was found guilty last week in Worcester...

A new local program could wipe out student loan debt for some borrowers, but it is an extreme solution.