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If you have it to give, you certainly can, but there may be consequences should you apply for Medicaid long-term care coverage within five years after each gift. The $15,000 figure is the amount [...]

In previous months, we’ve discussed Medicaid planning and the importance of planning ahead for the possibility of nursing home care.  But you don’t want to take planning advice from just [...]

After interrupting this two-part series on trusts to highlight Prince’s death and his lack of estate planning, this month we are going to pick up where we left off in March with further [...]

People often ask me whether they can write their own will. After all, they know who should receive their property and there must be a form for a will available on the internet. My answer to their [...]

By Linda Melancon, Attorney at Law   When you begin thinking about estate planning and which assets to leave to certain family members or friends, the china, photo albums, or expensive [...]

by Hannah Matherne, Client Services Coordinator From the premier of the film Finding Dory to the presidential election, 2016 promises to be a year full of change and opportunity. But for the [...]

    With the holidays upon us, many people are making their lists and checking them twice for the best deals of the season. Technology is exponentially changing the way that consumers [...]

Estate Planners Alert, 12/01/2015 IRS Relaxes Requirements for Tax-Favored ABLE Accounts for the Disabled In a notice, IRS has relaxed requirements set out in recently issued proposed regs that [...]

By: Hannah Matherne, Client Services Coordinator Thanksgiving is the next big, commercialized holiday – even if it’s barely holding its own with Christmas items already filling the [...]

Pablo Casals, a world renown cellist, once said, “I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.” As an Elder Law attorney, I often write or speak about [...]