Attorney-client privilege after death
Attorney-client privilege requires that attorneys keep confidential and refrain from sharing all secrets and other confidences of clients.
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.
Nursing homes are expensive with an average cost in the United States of $7,698 per month (2020 average). Most people cannot afford this expense, but they are in desperate need of the services provided by nursing homes (long-term care facilities).
Trusts are legal entities that own assets, and all trusts are not alike. They are created by a written trust document with certain provisions that can vary from trust to trust.