I meet with a great many people and review their estate planning documents. Two of the most common estate planning documents are a power of...
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Choosing Your Final Resting Place
From time to time, a client will ask me to write a funeral instruction into his last will and testament. Whatever the directive may be, the client...
The Power of Love
Almost every day a client requests that I draft a power of attorney for them. In most cases, the client chooses a family member (their spouse or a...
Yet Another Victory for Annuities
I’m getting to sound like a broken record, but I am going to write about a recent victory in federal court involving the use of annuities for...
Revoking a Power of Attorney
Sometimes a client wants to revoke a power of attorney that he signed. A power of attorney is a document that permits one person to make decisions...
Separate Accounts Do Not Protect Assets From Medicaid
One of the most common misconceptions I encounter in Medicaid planning is the belief that ownership depends entirely on whose name appears on an...
Federal Court Upholds Use of Annuities
A recent New Jersey federal court decision reaffirms the use of annuities as a Medicaid planning device. Medicaid is a health insurance program for...
Kickin’ Dad to the Curb
When a family member needs long-term care, it is scary. It’s scary to see a loved one deteriorate. It’s scary to see someone who has taken care of...
Understanding Medicaid Discrimination Concerns
“Won’t the nursing home treat my mother differently when she goes on Medicaid?” I hear this question quite frequently. A different variant of the...
Choosing Others To Decide for Us
No one wants to think of a day when someone else will have to make decisions for them, but for many people, particularly those lucky enough to grow...
No Will, No Way
If you die without having made out a Will, what happens? Does your property just pass to the State of New Jersey, leaving your spouse and children...
Don’t Bother Asking for Help … Until You Really Need It
A recent decision of the New Jersey Superior Court, Appellate Division, highlights the difficulty of dealing with the Medicaid program from a...
Running Away with Mom
Most of us probably don’t like to admit it, but we aren’t as unique as we think. If we thought of something, chances are, someone else thought of...
Can the Nursing Home Restrain Dad?
When can a nursing facility restrain a resident? Typically, when we think of restraining a person we think of the negative implications. You are...
Supreme Court Limits Medicaid Estate Recovery
Recently, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled on a case involving Medicaid estate recovery. Medicaid is a health insurance program for...
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No Deeming and Medicaid
GOVERNMENT INTERFERENCE: A STATE OF MIND "I had to place my wife in a nursing home," says the man who has come to see me today. "I didn't want to, but she just became too much for me to handle. I'd like to qualify her for Medicaid," he continues, "but I don't want the...
Misconceptions About Medicaid and Estate Planning
THE UNWARRANTED FEAR OF LAWYERS: COSTS AND CONSEQUENCES As those who read my column on a regular basis know, I practice elder care law and only elder care law. In my "free" time, I present educational seminars on issues of elder care law to the general public and...
Medicare Choice: How to Decide What’s Right
Is Medicare+Choice the Right Choice for You? Medicare is the only national health insurance program. Persons eligible for Social Security retirement insurance who are 65 years of age or older are entitled to receive Medicare benefits. Medicare currently has three...
Medicare Home Health Aide
MEDICAID HOME HEALTH AIDE For the thousands of individuals in our society struggling to live independently in the community, the Medicare home health benefit is a crucial funding source for health care finance. When monitored and with proper advocacy, Medicare's home...
Medicare Drug Benefit: What You Should Know
MEDICARE'S NEW BENEFIT: A TOUGH PILL TO SWALLOW The Medicare program will finally have a prescription drug component. Whoopi! Medicare was established to provide medical coverage for aged and disabled individuals whom the insurance companies did not want to insure....
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