Follow our attorney blog to stay current on the estate planning issues you should be thinking about as you near retirement, face a medical crisis, or as a parent ages. Our attorney shares insights based on his many years of experience in estate planning and elder law in these posts.
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Medicare's Post-Hospital Care Options Hospital patients who need additional care after being discharged are sent to an inpatient rehabilitation facility or a skilled nursing facility. -
Tips on Creating an Estate Plan that Benefits a Child with Special Needs Parents want their children to be taken care of after they die. But children with disabilities have increased financial and care needs. -
What is the Difference Between a Living Will and a Do-Not Resuscitate Order? It is a very good idea to create advance directives in order to plan for the possibility that you may one day be unable to make your own medical decisions. -
Protecting Your House from Medicaid Estate Recovery After a Medicaid recipient dies, the state must attempt to recoup from his or her estate whatever benefits it paid for the recipient's care. -
What is a Health Care Proxy and Why Do I Need One? If you become incapacitated, who will make your medical decisions? A health care proxy allows you to appoint someone to act as your agent for medical decisions. -
10 Facts Funeral Directors Don't Want You to Know It is possible to spend much less money if you don't let funeral directors pressure you into buying goods or services you don't want or need. -
Retirement Account Beneficiaries While the execution of wills requires formalities like witnesses and a notary, the reality is that most property passes to heirs through other less formal means -
When To Review Your Estate Plan How frequently you should review your estate plan depends on how old you are and whether there has been a significant change in your circumstances. -
A Tax Break to Help Working Caregivers Pay for Day Care Tax credit available to help working caregivers defray the costs of day care (called "adult day care" in the case of the elderly). -
Can Medicaid Pay Me If I Take Care of My Ill Parents? Getting Paid as a Family Caregiver Through Medicaid