August 5, 2013

Drafting Your Will to Avoid LawsuitsPut this under “Why LegalZoom isn’t the right place to get your Will done.” You can obviously pay much less doing a “do-it-yourself” Will than you will by having me do it. Often a client will ask me why they should pay me to do their documents when the internet offers

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July 24, 2013

Caregivers: Who Can You Trust? Trust is a hard thing to maintain when there’s a lot of money at stake. Health care in 2015 was a $3.2 TRILLION dollar industry. This means that 18 cents of every dollar spent in the entire country last year was on health care. Think about that the next time

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July 19, 2013

Trust Protectors: A Backup Plan for Future Beneficiaries This article isn’t new, but it serves to illustrate the point I want to make today about irrevocable trusts, a common device when talking about estate planning and Medicaid planning. One of the main hesitations and drawbacks to using trusts is a perceived loss of control over

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July 16, 2013

Who Can Help Me Care for My Elderly Relatives At Home?If you’ve made the decision to care for an elderly relative at home, you may find that you need assistance down the line – but which home health agencies can you trust? There are so many names of agencies, and in their attempts to differentiate

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July 11, 2013

“But I Just Need a Power of Attorney!”No, you don’t. I get people calling the office from time to time claiming that they need to get a power of attorney signed RIGHT THIS MINUTE so they can do things on behalf of an ailing relative. I have tried to ask them, “Do you think you might

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