Hyannis, Cape Cod · Since 1976

Your family. Your wealth. Your next step.

Estate planning and wealth protection for families on Cape Cod and across the country. We translate wills and trusts into plain English: “Keep it understandable.”

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1976Founded by a father and son
AVMartindale-Hubbell peer rating
5Massachusetts counties served
50 statesFamilies nationwide

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Choose a topic. Each path leads to information and a next step.

  1. Estate Planning

    Wills, Trusts, and planning for the people you love.

  2. Wealth Protection Planning

    Ways to help preserve what you have built and pass it on with purpose.

  3. Massachusetts Estate Taxes

    How Massachusetts Estate Taxes may affect your family and your plan.

  4. Planning for Retirement Accounts

    Planning for the retirement accounts you intend to leave your loved ones.

  5. Estate & Trust Administration

    Guidance when handling a loved one’s estate or serving as a trustee.

  6. Seminars & Webinars

    Educational presentations about your planning options.

  7. Articles & Insights

    Answers and planning ideas at your own pace.

  8. Talk With Our Team

    Connect with F. Keats Boyd III and Whitney N. Tashjian to discuss your next step.

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About the firm

Compassionate attorneys helping Cape Cod families for over 40 years

The Law Offices of Boyd & Boyd was founded in 1976 and incorporated in 1992 by a father and son. The staff includes several family members. Our approach is compassionate, translating the complexities of estate planning, wills and trusts into plain English.

Boyd & Boyd, P.C. holds the highest rating in the Martindale-Hubbell Legal Directory, the peer-granted “AV” rating, and is listed in the Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers.

For most clients, trusts are the means of testamentary disposition, incapacity care planning, probate avoidance and estate tax avoidance. Let our family help your family.

Boyd & Boyd, P.C. lighthouse logo celebrating 50 years

What we handle

  • Advising Personal Representatives (Executors) & Trustees
  • Estate Administration
  • Trust Administration
  • Probate and Settlement of Estates
  • Trustee Services
  • Elder Law
  • Asset Protection Planning
  • Special Needs Planning
  • Tax Law
  • Charitable Planning
  • Business & Succession Planning
  • Estate & Gift Tax Planning
  • Tax Return Preparation

Meet our team

The attorneys

F. Keats Boyd III

Shareholder & President

Concentrates in estate, trust and retirement planning, administration and management, asset protection, business succession, charitable planning, elder law, special needs planning, tax law and trustee services.

Holy Cross graduate; served in the US Air Force as a Captain; earned his law degree cum laude from Suffolk University Law School. Over 30 years helping families, with clients across the state and the eastern seaboard, and as far as Arizona, California, Hawaii and Washington. A respected lecturer and author. Admitted in Massachusetts, the US Tax Court, the US District Court of Massachusetts, the First Circuit and the US Supreme Court.

Whitney N. Tashjian

Shareholder Attorney

Practices in estate planning, estate & trust administration, trusts, wills and living wills, probate and powers of attorney. Licensed in Massachusetts and D.C. since 2017.

Suffolk University Law School (JD, 2015) and College of the Holy Cross (BA, 2007). Joined Boyd & Boyd in 2019 as an associate and became a shareholder in 2024. Previously counsel at the Law Office of Lindsey M. Straus and a securities litigation paralegal at Mintz Levin. A former competitive figure skater who grew up spending summers on the Cape.

F. Keats Boyd, Jr.

Our Founder · 1936–2017

Founded the firm. Graduated cum laude from Holy Cross and earned his law degree from Stanford. More than 40 years of practice, named among Boston’s Top Rated Lawyers (2012, 2014) and New England’s top-rated lawyers in “Legal Leaders” (2013), with the highest rating in Martindale-Hubbell.

A well-known lecturer, he served clients along the eastern seaboard and as far west as California.

Free educational webinar

Is Your Estate Plan a Tax Time Bomb?

A Will or Trust tells you who gets what. But what about taxes, control, and the risks facing the inheritance you leave? Our free webinar shows how Trusts, taxes, control of assets and risks to an inheritance fit together, whether you already have a plan or need one.

Questions, or ready to register? Call us.

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Service areas

A Massachusetts home base. Families nationwide.

Families outside Massachusetts may come to our office to sign, or we may work with co-counsel licensed in their home state.

  • Barnstable County
  • Plymouth County
  • Bristol County
  • Norfolk County
  • Dukes County

Contact

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Boyd & Boyd, P.C. 1555 Iyannough Road (Route 132), Unit 1BW
Hyannis, Massachusetts 02601 (508) 444-9688 [email protected]

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