Women in Family Business: What Keeps You up at Night? addresses the psychological, relational and financial issues impacting women in family owned businesses: women whowant their husbands to retire; mothers who want to treat their children fairly; widows who don't know whether to keep or sell the business; stepmothers who feel like outsiders; daughters who want their fathers' approval; sisters who want the same opportunities as their brothers; and daughters-in-law and sisters-in-law who wanted to be treated with respect. Written by a team of advisors, each of whom hasmore than two decades of experience consulting for family business, this book informs, entertains and provides those women in the family owned business with survival tools for taking care of themselves and their families.
Attorney Patricia M. Annino is a nationally recognized authority on estate planning and a partner in the Boston law firm or Prince Lobel Glovsky &Tye LLP where she chairs the Estate Planning and Tax Group.
A graduate of Smith College and Suffolk University Law School, she earned a Masters Degree in taxation at Boston University School of Law.
She has taught courses in the Bentley College Masters in Taxation Program on Estate and Gift Taxation and Estate Planning. She has conducted more than 120 seminars on the subject for public and private organizations, including IBM; BNY/Mellon Bank, Northeastern University, A.I.C.P.A., Boston Tax Institute, Harvard Business School, Smith College, John Hancock Life Insurance Company, Merrill Lynch, Bank of America, Foundation for Continuing Education, the American,Massachusetts, and Boston Bar Associations; and the Massachusetts Bankers Association.
Ms. Annino has received the highest (AV) rating from the Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory and has been repeatedly selected by her peers as one of the "Best Lawyers in America" (Trust and Estates). She has been voted a Massachusetts Superlawyer and a Top 50 Massachusetts Female SuperLawyer by her peers and an independent Blue Ribbon Committee (published in Boston Magazine and SuperLawyer Magazine). In 2007 her peers in the Boston Estate Planning Council voted her the "Estate Planner of the Year". She is a Fellow in the American College of Trust and Estates Counsel (ACTEC).
She is the author of several professional texts, including Estate Planning in Massachusetts, part of West Publishing Company's Massachusetts Practice Series; and Taxwise Planning for Aging, Ill, or Incapacitated Clients, published by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.
She is a graduate of Smith College, Suffolk University Law School and Boston University School of Law, where she earned a masters degree in taxation. She is the recipient of Newton Country Day School of the Sacred Heart Distinguished Alumnae Award and the Suffolk University School of Law Outstanding Alumni Achievement Award.
She is the author of "Women and Money: A Practial Guide to Estate Planning", "Cracking the $$ Code: What Successful Men Know and You Don't (Yet)" and co-author of "Women in Family Business: What Keeps You Up at Night?". All these books are available on amazon.com
