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Nikki Marie Sherwood, a partner in Nutter’s Private Client Department, weighed in on the importance of careful drafting in durable powers of attorney in Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly. In the article, “Sons could make gifts to themselves from mother’s estate,” Nikki said, “In exercising gifting authority, fiduciaries must act in good faith and consistent with what the principal would have intended, but a principal can always authorize agents to make gifts, including to themselves.”