While most initial meetings with an estate planning attorney will result in some questions you likely have never considered, there are many ways in which you can prepare for a thoughtful and productive estate planning conference that will result in a better understanding of your goals and more efficient use of time with your attorney.
If you’re helping an aging parent navigate Medicaid because they don’t have long-term care insurance or you think you’ll need it yourself someday, it’s important to understand how the program works.
Attorney-client privilege requires that attorneys keep confidential and refrain from sharing all secrets and other confidences of clients.
Estate planning is the process of transferring the management of your assets, if and when you are unable to manage them yourself due to disability or death. Whether you have $100 or $100 million you should have an estate plan.
Consult an elder care lawyer preemptively, to avoid making a panicked phone call in the moment.
The possibility that a power of attorney might be rejected may be one reason not to simply pull a form off the internet and hope it will be accepted.
For most of us, considering the distribution of the property we have accumulated over our lives is a painful reminder of our mortality.
Finding and elder law attorney is as easy as googling, “elder law attorney near me.” Anyone can find an elderly law attorney but finding the right one is where things get a tad difficult. If you want your elder law case to be in the right hands, then you might have to do a bit of digging.
A revocable trust is great for many reasons, but it does NOT protect assets from nursing home expenses.
Retirees have a choice about when to claim their Social Security retirement benefits, but for most people, 62 is the earliest age at which you can start them.
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