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- Protecting SSI For Your Special Needs Child
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- Competency vs. Capacity
- Benefits For An Aging Veteran
- Should nursing home residents have a medical power of attorney?
- No will or trust for your estate: What happens at your death?
- What is Medicaid Estate Recovery?
- Protect your assets from Medicaid’s estate recovery program
- How you can choose the best nursing home for your loved one?
- What nursing home red flags should I look out for?
- Estate planning and financial tips for late-in-life parents
- What A Will Cannot Do
- Does it matter what kind of trust I have?
- When To Modify Your Estate Plan
- Is it time to update your plan?
- 4 ways to pay for the long-term care of an aging parent
- Protecting your child’s inheritance from his or her spouse
- Funding a living trust
- 3 ways to avoid probate
- Do you know the signs of elder abuse?
- What is the importance of titles in estate planning?
- 3 characteristics of an effective special needs trustee
- The Medicaid Look-Back Period
- Long-term care planning concerns affecting women
- What can you accomplish by establishing a trust?
- Advantages offered by Medicare Advantage plans
- Is it time to revisit your plans?
- Reports show risks of abuse and neglect in Georgia nursing homes
- What can a special needs trust cover without hurting SSI?
- Will my child’s inheritance stay in the family?
- Crisis vs. Long-Term Medicaid Planning
- When is it time to move your parents into a nursing home?
- Can I limit the powers of a guardian?
- Understanding A Medicaid Spend Down
- Do special needs adults need guardians?
- 3 things you should know about Medicaid planning
- 3 red flags during your tour of a prospective nursing home
- 3 ways to help your loved one adjust to a nursing home
- What are the different ways you can title your assets?
- How estate planning offers you protection and preparation
- Are you up to date on Georgia’s advance directive for healthcare?
- Key strategies for asset protection and long-term care
- How does a divorce affect your will?
- What if my mother does not like the nursing home?
- Alzheimer’s & Estate Planning
- 3 tips for adding digital assets to your estate plan
- 4 Tips For Aging Gracefully
- Government benefits and long-term care
- What does a special needs trustee do?
- How should you prioritize your estate plan review?
- Two trusts that can benefit your loved one with special needs
- What are the Georgia asset and income limits for Medicaid long-term care?
- What is joint tenancy?
- Recognizing the signs of Alzheimer’s disease
- Would setting up a revocable trust ease some of your concerns?
- Protect The Aging Veteran In Your Life
- Role of the personal representative in Georgia probate
- How do you know when your aging parent needs a guardianship?
- Is a Medicaid spend down legal?
- Who makes medical decisions if you become incapacitated?
- What are the most common reasons people need long-term care?
- Understanding Medicare
- What are the most common reasons adults need long-term care?
- How does Medicare’s nursing home rating system work?
- Ensuring your loved one with special needs retains SSI
- I have a special needs child: how do I split my estate?
- How can I ensure I choose the best Georgia nursing home?
- Recognizing the Early Signs of Dementia
- What does a special needs trustee do?
- What do you know about filling in Medicare gaps?
- Arranging your finances to care for aging parents
- What should I consider before becoming a guardian?
- 3 tips for picking your children’s guardian
- The 3 kinds of special needs trusts
- Watch out for this nursing home red flag while planning ahead
- What is the difference between a medical and financial power of attorney?
- What if my loved one does not like the nursing home?
- How should you handle the estate plan talk with your parents?
- Mistakes to avoid when planning for your estate
- 3 ways a trust could protect your adult child’s inheritance
- How can you afford your parents’ long-term care?
- 3 benefits of a revocable trust
- How can my estate avoid probate court?
- Will we lose everything if my spouse needs nursing home Medicaid?
- The benefits of reviewing your estate plan
- How does a long-term care plan establish a living arrangement?
- Five Ways to Reduce Your Estate Taxes
- What are the traits of a good executor?
- What if my elderly parent refuses to leave home?
- 3 reasons to think about estate planning now
- The benefits of addressing your digital assets
- Have you discussed a long-term care plan with your parents?
- Are estate taxes required in Georgia?
- Types of powers of attorney
- Five Times in Life When You Should Update Your Estate Plan
- What are the essential estate planning documents?
- How can you avoid fighting over your estate plan?
- What are some types of special needs trust?
- The importance of an advance directive for health care
- Special Needs and Autism Awareness Month: Four Considerations for Estate Planning
- If you suspect abuse at your loved one’s nursing home
- Why is probate such a big deal?
- How does a child with special needs affect a retirement plan?
- How do I choose a nursing home?
- How can I prove elder financial abuse?
- Why is a revocable trust a better choice than an irrevocable trust?
- Establishing ABLE accounts for disabled Americans
- The consequences of neglecting to create an estate plan properly
- What Actually Is Estate Planning?
- Estate planning amid complicated family dynamics
- What are the red flags of a bad nursing home?
- Can elderly people stay in their homes and get the care they need?
- Steps to take when having an elderly parent move into your home
- How much should I put in a special needs trust?
- When should you update your estate plan?
- 3 estate planning considerations for blended families
- Does one parent have to give it all up for another’s Medicaid?
- Why Titling Assets is So Important in Estate Planning
- Create an estate plan that protects your assets and your family
- Can joint tenancy help me avoid probate?
- What is intestacy and how can you prevent it?
- The privacy benefits of a revocable trust
- How is a guardianship different from a power of attorney?
- Revocable vs. Irrevocable Trusts: What’s the Difference?
- Become a parent’s guardian
- Coordinating an estate plan for your special needs child
- Does Medicare cover long-term care?
- When you need a special needs trust
- How can a trust keep assets safe from poor spending habits?
- Strategies to combat loneliness for seniors
- Distinguishing between Medicare and Medicaid
- Tips to help you avoid probate
- Why is elder law a growing area of concern?
- Why is a business successor crucial?
- What wills are valid in Georgia?
- It is never too early for estate planning
- Can you protect your wealth from your child’s spouse?
- Maintaining ownership of your assets with a revocable trust
- Including online accounts in your estate plan
- What are the benefits of using a trust to build your estate plan?
- What are the benefits of a revocable trust?
- Should you establish a special needs trust?
- Do you know these strategies for saving on elderly medical care?
- Factors to consider when choosing an estate executor
- What aspect of special needs planning do people often overlook?
- Demystifying Medicaid: What do the different programs cover?
- What is the best way to open a discussion about long-term care?
- What do you know about paying for nursing home costs?
- Maintaining control over the guardian selection process
- What should I know about nursing homes?
- Legal considerations for a loved one with dementia
- Careful planning needed with special needs trusts
- What can a revocable trust do for my estate plan?
- Ethical wills: leaving behind words of wisdom for loved ones
- How can your estate avoid probate?
- 3 things to consider when choosing power of attorney
- 3 reasons Millennials should create wills
- The Difference Between Wills & Trusts
- When is it time to consider a nursing home?
- The estate planning myths we tell ourselves
- It’s not just about after you die
- How coronoavirus affects state planning for special needs kids
- How to construct a comprehensive living will
- Leaving money to your daughter when you do not trust her husband
- Choosing a guardian for your child with special needs
- Turning 18? Why You Need to Establish Powers of Attorney
- The 4 elements of an effective advance directive
- Staying connected with seniors while social distancing
- A legal checklist for moving a parent into a memory care home
- What should I know about a Medicaid spend down?
- Three Things You Should Do If You Have a Special Needs Family Member
- 4 Considerations for Helping Aging Parents and Grandparents
- Will I Lose My Home If I Go Into a Nursing Home?
- 3 things an estate plan should cover
- How to protect an inheritance from a child’s failing marriage
- Helping a parent or loved one age in place
- How could the SECURE Act affect your retirement?
- How can I make my home safe for a senior relative?
- Planning for the final disposition of your body
- What is intestate succession?
- 3 reasons to stop delaying estate planning
- Solid estate planning depends on keeping your trust flexible
- What estate planning mistakes should you avoid?
- Creating and funding a special needs trust
- Who is eligible for Medicare and Medicaid in Georgia?
- Planning for a guardianship with an advance medical directive
- Be alert for signs of mental illness in an elder loved one
- How a trust can protect your legacy in your golden years
- Nursing home issues can spark elder law problems
- Conservatorship: Whether it overrides a POA depends on this
- Family support or residential care for special needs adults?
- Conservatorship: Problems can arise if family members disagree
- What to look for in a nursing home for a loved one
- A financial power of attorney is a helpful estate planning tool
- Long-term care planning: Build a strong support network
- How to estimate the costs of care for a special needs adult
- How to fund a living trust
- Bank named conservator of lake property, sibling rift results
- Getting married late in life? Discuss estate planning
- Special needs trusts can help protect assistance benefits
- Naming the right person as trustee for a special needs trust
- Sisters do not trust brother re petition to be legal guardian
- Helping a Georgia loved one resolve nursing home issues
- Is it time to talk to your parent about assisted living?
- Help your aging loved ones plan for future medical decisions now
- Who will advocate for your loved one’s assisted living needs?
- If your kids have grown up and moved out, update your will
- Asset protection is critical factor toward long-term elder care
- Helping a loved one optimize long-term care options
- Basic issues to consider regarding long-term care planning
- Incapacitation: One of many elder law issues in Georgia
- Trust planning and estate planning often go hand in hand
- Durable power of attorney protects those in cognitive decline
- How do most people pay for long-term care?
- Guardianship and possible hidden assets are central focus of case
- Should you create a trust for your special needs grandchild?
- Changes in your family can mean changes to your power of attorney
- Medicare versus Medicaid: Be sure you understand the difference
- Who determines if a court-appointed guardian is needed?
- When your family depends on you, an updated will is important
- Clarifying information regarding Medicaid for Georgia residents
- Protecting loved ones in Georgia nursing homes
- Trust: Understanding types and determining which is best
- Elder law issues: When a parent has dementia
- Have you factored in your kids when planning for retirement?
- Taking care of yourself when you support your kids and parents
- Why estate planning matters so much to elders
- How do you pick the right person to receive power of attorney?
- Contentions rise in a legal guardian case in another state
- Choosing a nursing home: How to tell the good ones from the bad
- You need plans for when your autistic child can’t go to school
- Conservatorship: What is it and when is it necessary?
- Long-term care planning: Think about your home
- Georgia senior citizens are targets for financial crimes
- Trusts can secure your special needs child’s future
- Protecting loved ones may include financial power of attorney
- Georgia senior citizens may be concerned with these issues
- Long-term elder care: Benefits and downsides of assisted living
- A court appointed guardian may affect your loved one’s rights
- How can you bring up estate planning with your parents?
- Do these things to help a parent find a nursing home
- What are the top medical needs of Georgia elders?
- Estate planning is not just about signing a will
- Senior citizens often experience problems in assisted living
- Grandparents can provide for special needs grandchildren
- A trust can help divorced parents protect a child’s inheritance
- Things to know about irrevocable trust when helping elders plan
- Care considerations for older adults with dementia
- Assisted living issues that may apply to your situation
- Attention Georgia elders: Avoid these estate planning pitfalls
- When can doctors ignore a health care directive?
- A parent is forgetful: Does that mean mental illness is present?
- Where to seek support for long-term care planning issues
- An “in terrorem” clause could prevent Georgia estate challenges
- Many situations can keep older adults from staying in the home
- Learning from your parents’ estate planning
- Georgia senior citizens often face these issues
- Will your nursing home kick you out if your Medicare runs out?
- Estate planning pitfalls Georgia elders will want to avoid
- Understanding the ABCs of Medicare
- Mental illness: What are the signs in the elderly?
- Issues that can trigger mental illness in the elderly
- Assisted living officials say woman is too frail to live there
- Comedian Tim Conway’s family fighting over conservatorship
- Residential care and special needs trusts for disabled adults
- Staff numbers important when protecting loved ones is the goal
- Beyond a will: Other essential estate planning documents
- Avoid these errors when naming a beneficiary
- Long term care planning: How to overcome obstacles that arise
- How to tell if a Georgia nursing home makes the grade
- There are many ways to pay for nursing home care
- Does your aging loved one require a special needs trust?
- Differences between a living and a testamentary trust
- Using a trust to skip a generation in inheritance
- Yes, it’s possible to protect assets against Medicaid
- Long-term care planning: Often ignored but critically needed
- Long-term care: Is it time for an assisted living plan?
- Scheduled trust in place for Anthony Bourdain’s daughter
- Should I fund an incentive trust?
- Senior citizens in Georgia often worry about these things
- Medicare does not pay for non-skilled living assistance
- Time to choose a legal guardian? Read this first
- Long-term care and estate planning with your parent
- How Banking and Estate Planning Protect You and Your Family’s Financial Future
- How to find a good nursing home in Georgia or beyond
- The Medicaid look back period will impact your end-of-life plan
- Assisted living facilities fight back after Medicaid rate cuts
- The importance of a living will increases as your parents age
- The many times to update your estate plan
- Understanding difference between trustee, trust and related terms
- How mental illness can impact a person’s estate
- Who will care for your special needs child when you pass on?
- Geriatric care support available for senior citizens
- Asset protection: Dont’ let nursing home costs gain upper hand
- Banking, Elder Law, and Protecting the Financial Future of Older Adults
- Watch out for these potential problems when nursing home shopping
- Critical factors of solid estate planning care for elders
- Financial power of attorney documents can protect older adults
- Advocates seek government assistance in protecting loved ones
- Finding a long-term care facility that best fits an elder’s needs
- Critical factors in long-term care for senior citizens
- When should a nursing home option be considered?
- Long-term care planning now can ensure you leave something behind
- How Financial Planning Supports the Long-Term Wellbeing of Older Adults
- Dementia diagnosis: Will guardianship be the next step?
- Medical needs can be addressed in an advance directive plan
- Can Medicaid help with my parents’ long-term care?
- Long-Term Care Options for Estate Planning
- Special needs trusts can help your child access state support
- Protecting loved ones not always possible in nursing homes
- Protecting your family legacy with the use of trusts
- The Importance of Financial and Estate Planning for Older Adults
- Estate planning facts that elders should know
- Might in-home care be part of your long-term care planning?
- How an irrevocable trust can help provide for loved ones
- How Financial Planning Improves Your Elder Law Protection
- Nursing home fined for harm to patients
- Your will should address medical and financial power of attorney
- Understanding estate planning terminology
- Consider these issues as your parents get older
- Two Georgia workers arrested and charged with nursing home abuse
- Protecting loved ones from harm not always possible
- What happens to your special needs child after you die?
- No such thing as a perfect nursing home, but safety is important
- Determining whether home care is a long-term care planning option
- 3 steps to take before turning to a nursing home for help
- Marriott empire battling over trust
- Choosing a trustee: It’s no small matter
- Talk to parents about long-term care sooner rather than later
- Nurse’s aide charged with abuse and other nursing home crimes
- Important issues regarding long-term care and estate planning
- A special needs trust can protect your autistic child
- Mental illness and other possible health problems for the elderly
- What you need to know about granting power of attorney
- Nursing home situation leads to abuse allegations
- Grandparents should be mindful of gift taxes this holiday season
- Questions regarding a court appointed guardian issue?
- How to leave out your in-laws when drafting your estate plan
- Time for assisted living? Know how to find a good facility
- Nursing home under scrutiny following reports of elder abuse
- When adult children fight of estate planning issues
- How Elder Care Law Attorneys Help Make Medicare Decisions
- How an Irrevocable Trust Benefits Your Estate Planning and Future
- Is it time to explore assisted living options?
- Power of Attorney Abuse: Recognizing its Signs to Protect You and Your Loved Ones
- Specific wording needed in residuary clauses for asset protection
- The many benefits of a trust in Georgia estate planning
- Daughter of nursing home patient outraged at signs of abuse
- Long-Term Care Options for Estate Planning
- When siblings fight over a trust, resolution may be challenging
- Need the low down on trust planning?
- A trust may be an option if avoiding probate is a high priority
- A checklist is a good tool to help parents with estate planning
- Creating a special needs trust to protect an autistic child
- What type of medical care do you want, or not want?
- Have your aging parents created a health power of attorney?
- Are you in your 50s? Follow these estate planning tips
- To protect your loved one’s wellbeing, planning truly is critical
- A trust can protect your child’s inheritance in case of divorce
- Study: Only a third of us have living wills or healthcare proxies
- A long-term partnership policy may make home care more affordable
- Tips to help bring up long-term care with your parents
- What will happen to your digital treasures once you die?
- Immunity versus liability re this estate planning document
- Make plans now for your special needs child after you are gone
- 5 proposals aimed at doubling the long-term care insurance rate
- Survey shows large gender gap on financial literacy in retirement
- How do you know when you are too old to manage money?
- 10 things you’ll need if your parent has a serious health crisis
- Long-Term Care Options for Estate Planning
- Keep this in mind to protect your parent’s assets
- Protect your loved one by watching for elder abuse
- Estate planning and second marriages
- Why your estate plan needs a power of attorney for medical issues
- Do you have a health care power of attorney?
- Choosing a long-term care facility is a big decision
- Estate planning for adults with special needs
- Understanding resident rights in long-term care facilities
- Taking care of aging parents? Care for yourself, too
- Securing the future of your special needs child
- Understanding the benefits of a living trust
- Trusts: 3 reasons a pet trust Matters
- How life insurance can present estate planning complications – III
- Conservatorships and guardianships
- Why Trump may not use a blind trust like other presidents
- What do you really know about guardianship and conservatorship?
- Living trusts, houses and estate planning
- 6 Self-Care Tips For Caregivers
- Angel investors and estate planning
- What is Elder Law?
- Using a trust protector to help manage a trust
- Why long-term healthcare insurance is a smart financial move–at any age
- Will your special needs child get the medical care they deserve as an adult?
- Using a trust when a child is bad with money
- Why you need a will at any age
- Estate planning, trusts and end-of-life planning
- When to make a trust in Georgia
- When irrevocable trusts make sense
- Trusts are still valuable financial tools
- Planning to preserve family wealth
- When Is The Right Time To Update My Will?
- Planning for the future? Don’t forget to look back.
- What are my options for long-term care?
- What is a Special Needs Trust?
- Creating a qualified personal residence trust
- Why healthcare directives should be included in every estate plan
- The importance of preparing for incapacity in an estate plan
- Trusts and annuities
- Divorce and estate planning
- How a revocable living trust can make life easier
- Money fights and strategies for avoiding them
- Extensive Prince coverage highlights something important to us all
- The importance of beneficiary designations
- The versatility of trusts for children
- The hidden culprit inside many nursing home contracts
- The role of the settlor of a trust
- The importance of will and trust reviews
- Worried about nursing home costs? Don’t transfer your assets
- Special needs planning: Are ABLE accounts coming to Georgia?
- A change in housing requires careful consideration for seniors
- 3 times when you will want to revisit your long-term care plans
- Update your estate plan to reflect life events
- What do you really know about guardianship and conservatorship? – III
- What do you really know about guardianship and conservatorship? – II
- How life insurance can present estate planning complications – II
- Understanding the truth about trusts
- How life insurance can present estate planning complications
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- What To Do Before We’re Gone
- The Question Everyone Needs To Ask
- Challenges, Medicaid IRMAA, & False Shortcuts
- What Happens If I Pass Away First: A Conversation About Special Needs Planning
- Here’s Why You May Be Putting Off Estate Planning
- When You Become An Empty Nester
- Increased Costs On A Fixed Budget & Other Concerns Associated With Nursing Homes
- Estate Planning & Presidents
- Let’s Talk About Asset Protection
- Estate Planning Basics: A Revocable Living Trust
- The One Thing That Means Everything
- Choosing A Trust Instead Of A Will
- Protecting SSI For Your Special Needs Child
- Self-Settled & Third-Party Special Needs Trusts
- Estate Planning & Elder Law: Distinct But Complementary
- Prepping For Your First Estate Plan
- Competency vs. Capacity
- Benefits For An Aging Veteran
- Should nursing home residents have a medical power of attorney?
- No will or trust for your estate: What happens at your death?
- What is Medicaid Estate Recovery?
- Protect your assets from Medicaid’s estate recovery program
- How you can choose the best nursing home for your loved one?
- What nursing home red flags should I look out for?
- Estate planning and financial tips for late-in-life parents
- What A Will Cannot Do
- Does it matter what kind of trust I have?
- When To Modify Your Estate Plan
- Is it time to update your plan?
- 4 ways to pay for the long-term care of an aging parent
- Protecting your child’s inheritance from his or her spouse
- Funding a living trust
- 3 ways to avoid probate
- Do you know the signs of elder abuse?
- What is the importance of titles in estate planning?
- 3 characteristics of an effective special needs trustee
- The Medicaid Look-Back Period
- Long-term care planning concerns affecting women
- What can you accomplish by establishing a trust?
- Advantages offered by Medicare Advantage plans
- Is it time to revisit your plans?
- Reports show risks of abuse and neglect in Georgia nursing homes
- What can a special needs trust cover without hurting SSI?
- Will my child’s inheritance stay in the family?
- Crisis vs. Long-Term Medicaid Planning
- When is it time to move your parents into a nursing home?
- Can I limit the powers of a guardian?
- Understanding A Medicaid Spend Down
- Do special needs adults need guardians?
- 3 things you should know about Medicaid planning
- 3 red flags during your tour of a prospective nursing home
- 3 ways to help your loved one adjust to a nursing home
- What are the different ways you can title your assets?
- How estate planning offers you protection and preparation
- Are you up to date on Georgia’s advance directive for healthcare?
- Key strategies for asset protection and long-term care
- How does a divorce affect your will?
- What if my mother does not like the nursing home?
- Alzheimer’s & Estate Planning
- 3 tips for adding digital assets to your estate plan
- 4 Tips For Aging Gracefully
- Government benefits and long-term care
- What does a special needs trustee do?
- How should you prioritize your estate plan review?
- Two trusts that can benefit your loved one with special needs
- What are the Georgia asset and income limits for Medicaid long-term care?
- What is joint tenancy?
- Recognizing the signs of Alzheimer’s disease
- Would setting up a revocable trust ease some of your concerns?
- Protect The Aging Veteran In Your Life
- Role of the personal representative in Georgia probate
- How do you know when your aging parent needs a guardianship?
- Is a Medicaid spend down legal?
- Who makes medical decisions if you become incapacitated?
- What are the most common reasons people need long-term care?
- Understanding Medicare
- What are the most common reasons adults need long-term care?
- How does Medicare’s nursing home rating system work?
- Ensuring your loved one with special needs retains SSI
- I have a special needs child: how do I split my estate?
- How can I ensure I choose the best Georgia nursing home?
- Recognizing the Early Signs of Dementia
- What does a special needs trustee do?
- What do you know about filling in Medicare gaps?
- Arranging your finances to care for aging parents
- What should I consider before becoming a guardian?
- 3 tips for picking your children’s guardian
- The 3 kinds of special needs trusts
- Watch out for this nursing home red flag while planning ahead
- What is the difference between a medical and financial power of attorney?
- What if my loved one does not like the nursing home?
- How should you handle the estate plan talk with your parents?
- Mistakes to avoid when planning for your estate
- 3 ways a trust could protect your adult child’s inheritance
- How can you afford your parents’ long-term care?
- 3 benefits of a revocable trust
- How can my estate avoid probate court?
- Will we lose everything if my spouse needs nursing home Medicaid?
- The benefits of reviewing your estate plan
- How does a long-term care plan establish a living arrangement?
- Five Ways to Reduce Your Estate Taxes
- What are the traits of a good executor?
- What if my elderly parent refuses to leave home?
- 3 reasons to think about estate planning now
- The benefits of addressing your digital assets
- Have you discussed a long-term care plan with your parents?
- Are estate taxes required in Georgia?
- Types of powers of attorney
- Five Times in Life When You Should Update Your Estate Plan
- What are the essential estate planning documents?
- How can you avoid fighting over your estate plan?
- What are some types of special needs trust?
- The importance of an advance directive for health care
- Special Needs and Autism Awareness Month: Four Considerations for Estate Planning
- If you suspect abuse at your loved one’s nursing home
- Why is probate such a big deal?
- How does a child with special needs affect a retirement plan?
- How do I choose a nursing home?
- How can I prove elder financial abuse?
- Why is a revocable trust a better choice than an irrevocable trust?
- Establishing ABLE accounts for disabled Americans
- The consequences of neglecting to create an estate plan properly
- What Actually Is Estate Planning?
- Estate planning amid complicated family dynamics
- What are the red flags of a bad nursing home?
- Can elderly people stay in their homes and get the care they need?
- Steps to take when having an elderly parent move into your home
- How much should I put in a special needs trust?
- When should you update your estate plan?
- 3 estate planning considerations for blended families
- Does one parent have to give it all up for another’s Medicaid?
- Why Titling Assets is So Important in Estate Planning
- Create an estate plan that protects your assets and your family
- Can joint tenancy help me avoid probate?
- What is intestacy and how can you prevent it?
- The privacy benefits of a revocable trust
- How is a guardianship different from a power of attorney?
- Revocable vs. Irrevocable Trusts: What’s the Difference?
- Become a parent’s guardian
- Coordinating an estate plan for your special needs child
- Does Medicare cover long-term care?
- When you need a special needs trust
- How can a trust keep assets safe from poor spending habits?
- Strategies to combat loneliness for seniors
- Distinguishing between Medicare and Medicaid
- Tips to help you avoid probate
- Why is elder law a growing area of concern?
- Why is a business successor crucial?
- What wills are valid in Georgia?
- It is never too early for estate planning
- Can you protect your wealth from your child’s spouse?
- Maintaining ownership of your assets with a revocable trust
- Including online accounts in your estate plan
- What are the benefits of using a trust to build your estate plan?
- What are the benefits of a revocable trust?
- Should you establish a special needs trust?
- Do you know these strategies for saving on elderly medical care?
- Factors to consider when choosing an estate executor
- What aspect of special needs planning do people often overlook?
- Demystifying Medicaid: What do the different programs cover?
- What is the best way to open a discussion about long-term care?
- What do you know about paying for nursing home costs?
- Maintaining control over the guardian selection process
- What should I know about nursing homes?
- Legal considerations for a loved one with dementia
- Careful planning needed with special needs trusts
- What can a revocable trust do for my estate plan?
- Ethical wills: leaving behind words of wisdom for loved ones
- How can your estate avoid probate?
- 3 things to consider when choosing power of attorney
- 3 reasons Millennials should create wills
- The Difference Between Wills & Trusts
- When is it time to consider a nursing home?
- The estate planning myths we tell ourselves
- It’s not just about after you die
- How coronoavirus affects state planning for special needs kids
- How to construct a comprehensive living will
- Leaving money to your daughter when you do not trust her husband
- Choosing a guardian for your child with special needs
- Turning 18? Why You Need to Establish Powers of Attorney
- The 4 elements of an effective advance directive
- Staying connected with seniors while social distancing
- A legal checklist for moving a parent into a memory care home
- What should I know about a Medicaid spend down?
- Three Things You Should Do If You Have a Special Needs Family Member
- 4 Considerations for Helping Aging Parents and Grandparents
- Will I Lose My Home If I Go Into a Nursing Home?
- 3 things an estate plan should cover
- How to protect an inheritance from a child’s failing marriage
- Helping a parent or loved one age in place
- How could the SECURE Act affect your retirement?
- How can I make my home safe for a senior relative?
- Planning for the final disposition of your body
- What is intestate succession?
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