YOUR FAMILY, YOUR MONEY: LET THE FIGHTING BEGIN In the coming years, a tremendous amount of wealth will pass from one generation to the next. As a...
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Can I Make Mom Get the Care She Needs?
A common question I get from people who come to see me for a consultation goes like this: “How do I get my mom to go to a nursing home? She doesn’t...
Medicaid Might Pay Your Family Member To Care for You
Recently, a few of my clients have mentioned a Medicaid program that allows a family member to be paid for providing care to a loved one. The...
Who Pays for Long-Term Care? Understanding Your Options
Medicaid is a health payment plan for needy individuals. Unlike private health insurance, Medicaid will pay for many of the costs associated with...
What if I don’t own the property in my will when I die?
DO YOU HAVE A WILL OR A PLAN? When a person has a Will drafted leaving a specific asset or a specific amount of money to a friend or family member,...
Spousal Income Allowance Revised
Recently, the state of New Jersey adjusted the figures used to calculate the Medicaid spousal income allowance. Medicaid is a health payment plan...
Avoid Paying More for Less in Long-Term Care
I have concentrated my practice in the area of elder law for almost twenty years now. In that time, I have represented hundreds upon hundreds of...
Medicaid Change
The manner in which the State calculates penalty periods for institutional level Medicaid care services has recently changed. Medicaid is a health...
Revising Your Will Due to Estate Tax Change
For many years, the state of New Jersey imposed an estate tax on estates with a gross value greater than $675,000. Given the fact that the populous...
A Recent Decision Changed the Medicaid Landscape
The benefit of practicing one area of the law—in my case elder law—is that during your entire workday, you work on a narrow area of the law and...
The Best Reasons to Create a Trust Have Nothing to Do With Taxes
There are various reasons why it may be unwise to directly leave someone an inheritance. The beneficiary might be a minor, he might be disabled, or...
New Jersey’s Right To Die Law
New Jersey now has a right to die law. Formally, the law is known as the “Medical Aid in Dying for the Terminally Ill Act.” The law permits a...
What Is the Most Important Estate Planning Document
What is the most important estate planning document that a person can have? In my opinion, a financial power of attorney is the most important...
Lack of Cooperation
A recent case highlights the fault in an old argument about how much help the State must provide to an applicant for Medicaid benefits. Medicaid is...
Taking Charge of Your Health
An advanced health care directive could be one of two documents or a combination of those two documents. An advanced health care directive could be...
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It’s Good To Have Help
Currently, we are all self-quarantining. When you rarely leave your home, you see how difficult it is to accomplish daily tasks. Basic things that need to get done simple aren’t getting done. We are putting off to tomorrow what we cannot do today. The government...
Another Medicaid Planning Win for a Family in Crisis
This past week I received a very favorable result in a federal lawsuit that I filed against the state of New Jersey over a Medicaid issue. The result of this lawsuit is important for several reasons that I want to quickly discuss in this brief article. First, the...
Planning for a Crisis
What the coronavirus teaches us is that we need to plan for the unexpected in life. It’s comfortable to think that nothing is going to change. Change often makes us uncomfortable, but sometimes, change is forced upon us. Change happens whether we want it to or not....
Avoiding Government Interference
Almost every week a client asks me how to avoid “government interference” of his estate after their death. The client wants his children to have an easy time accessing his assets after he dies and doesn’t want the government getting involved in his affairs. The most...
Making Your Will Enforceable
Most people draft their last wills and testaments to leave their entire estate to their children equally. A Will that leaves the entire estate equally to the decedent’s children is a lot less likely to be challenged after the death of the person making the Will. This...
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