Complete Estate Planning: If you think planning is expensive…

Most adults do not have a complete estate plan. We know—it’s expensive, time-consuming, stressful, and overall unpleasant to think about.   Not planning for your potential incapacity and your death is even more expensive and time-consuming.   If you die without a will or trust, you’ll lose control over who inherits your stuff and who…

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Complete Estate Planning: Trusts

  Setting up a complete estate plan involves addressing what will happen to your assets and your stuff after you die. This means you may be executing a will, possibly establishing and funding a trust, and updating all of your beneficiary designations.   You have to create a plan for who gets your stuff after…

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Complete Estate Planning: Advance Directives for People with Dementia

In November of last year, the Washington Post ran an opinion piece by an ER doctor titled “Doctors are torturing dementia patients at the end of their life”.  Read the article here The doctor’s experience and perspective are not unusual. As Jane Brody of the New York Times summarized “Advanced dementia, including Alzheimer’s disease, is the…

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Elder Law QuickFacts for 2020: Updated Medicaid and VA Numbers

  At the beginning of each year, there are changes in the eligibility requirements for Medicaid and benefit amounts for VA Aid and Attendance.  This is because these numbers change with each Social Security change, and Social Security changes go into effect on January 1st of each year. This year, we have a 1.6% increase…

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