New Hampshire Practice Series: Wills, Trusts and Gifts (Volume 7)

Charles A. DeGrandpre is a native of Jaffrey, New Hampshire, where he attended local public schools. He received his B.A. degree with Honors in History from Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts, in 1958, and his J.D. from the University of Michigan in 1961. He was admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of New Hampshire in 1961, the United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire in 1964, the United States District Court of Appeals for the First circuit in 1968 and the United States Supreme Court in 1969. He served in the United States Army Reserve from 1962 to 1968, having been honorably discharged as a First Lieutenant in 1968.

Since 1961, Mr. DeGrandpre has been associated with the law firm of McLane, Graf, Raulerson & Middleton, Professional Association, of Manchester, New Hampshire, where he has been a partner since 1968. He has been the senior director in the firm's Portsmouth office since 1989. He concentrates his practice in the area of Estate Planning, Trusts and Estates and Business Law. In 1985, he was elected a Fellow of The American College of Trust and Estate Counsel.

Mr. DeGrandpre is the author of a legal treatise entitled, Wills, Trusts, and Gifts, and is co-author of a three volume treatise on New Hampshire Probate Law entitled, New Hampshire Probate Law and Procedure. Since 1968 he has authored a quarterly column entitled, Lex Loci, for the New Hampshire Bar Journal.

Mr. DeGrandpre is former Chair of the New Hampshire Bar Foundation, former Chair of the Lou and Lutza Smith Foundation, former Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees of Strawbery Banke, former Chair of the Board of Trustees of Canterbury Shaker Village, and a former director of the University of New Hampshire Foundation, and presently serves as trustee and director of several charitable organizations.

Mr. DeGrandpre has been named to Woodward's Best Lawyers in America, and was selected as the New Hampshire Bar Foundation 2006 Honorary Fellow. In 1982 Mr. DeGrandpre was the recipient of the New Hampshire "Volunteer of the Year" award from Governor Hugh Gallen, and has twice received the President's Award of the New Hampshire Bar Association for his service to the community and to the Association.