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Monthly Archives: August 2015

Woman's Efforts to Change Will Without Professional Assistance Backfire

A recent court decision in Minnesota serves as a cautionary reminder to anyone thinking of changing their estate plan on their own. 

August 27, 2015 Advance Directives, Estate Planning, Health Care Proxy, Medicaid Planning, Probate, Trusts, Uncategorized, Wills

An Elder Lawyer’s Pet Peeves

View image | gettyimages.com Here is a short list of dangers that I regularly see in my Elder Law practice. These hazards can frustrate a client’s estate plan or asset protection plan : 1) The Do It Yourself Last Will and Testament that does not work because it is improperly executed, has inconsistent clauses and/or fails to… Read More »

August 21, 2015 Advance Directives, Estate Planning, Medicaid Planning, Uncategorized, Wills

Incentive Trusts: Ensuring That an Inheritance Will Be Well Spent

Some parents, fearful of how a large inheritance will affect their heirs, set up what are known as “incentive trusts” that ensure that the trust funds support positive behavior and discourage unproductive activities. 

August 20, 2015 Advance Directives, Estate Planning, Health Care Proxy, Medicaid Planning, Probate, Trusts, Uncategorized, Wills

How to Protect Your Deceased Loved Ones From Identity Theft

We’ve all been warned about protecting ourselves from identity theft, but one group of victims can’t take action to protect themselves—the dead. Fortunately, there are steps that you can take to discourage identity thieves from targeting a deceased loved one.

August 17, 2015 Advance Directives, Estate Planning, Health Care Proxy, Medicaid Planning, Probate, Trusts, Uncategorized, Wills

10 Reasons To Choose A Revocable Living Trust

Your Last Will and Testament and the details of your estate holdings and its distribution will not be an open public record in the clerk’s office of the Surrogates Court. The trustee of your Revocable Living Trust will not need to probate your Will in multiple states in order to transfer your home, vacation home… Read More »

August 13, 2015 Advance Directives, Estate Planning, Probate, Trusts, Wills

Obama Signs Law Requiring Hospitals to Warn of Costly Medicare Loophole

President Obama has signed a new law intended to prevent Medicare beneficiaries from spending days in a hospital only to find that they hadn’t been admitted to the hospital at all – they were only under “observation.” 

Advance Directives, Estate Planning, Health Care Proxy, Medicaid Planning, Probate, Trusts, Uncategorized, Wills

Know Your Options Before Signing Up for Medicare

As you get ready to turn 65, you may be inundated with information about Medicare. All this information is confusing, but it is important to do your research before choosing your plan.  

August 7, 2015 Advance Directives, Estate Planning, Health Care Proxy, Medicaid Planning, Probate, Trusts, Uncategorized, Wills

Who Will Inherit Whitney Houston's Fortune Following Bobbi Kristina's Death — and What Are the Lessons?

Now that the late Whitney Houston’s only child, Bobbi Kristina, has herself died, what will happen to the estimated $20 million estate she was to inherit?  

August 5, 2015 Advance Directives, Estate Planning, Health Care Proxy, Medicaid Planning, Probate, Trusts, Uncategorized, Wills

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