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Why You Should Use a Lawyer for Medicaid Planning? Instead of taking steps based on what you've heard from others, doing nothing, or enlisting a non-lawyer referred by a nursing home, you can hire an elder law attorney. At the Law offices of Louis P. Lepore can help you save money in the long run as well as make sure...

Medical Professionals, Elder Law Attorneys and Their Older Patient/Clients All Benefit When the Professionals Work Together There are often situations in which an older person needs the services of an attorney and medical professionals. A recent ai e in Bifocal, a publication of the American Bar Association, highlighted six scenarios in which such a collaboration would be beneficial to the...

Beyond Wills and Trusts: 3 Documents Everyone Needs When it comes to estate planning, you probably think of wills Lepore Law Website and trusts. But there are three other estate planning documents Blog you should think about to make your plan complete: 1. A Living Will 2. A Healthcare Directive, also called an Advance Directive, Medical or Healthcare Power of...

Medicaid and Trusts With careful Medicaid planning, you may be able to preserve some of your estate for your children or other heirs while meeting the Medicaid asset limit (in most states, a nursing home resident covered by Medicaid may have no more than $2,000 in "countable" assets). The problem with transferring assets is that you have given them away....

The Perils of Outright Distributions and Gifts "Whatever can go wrong, will go wrong." Murphy's Law applies itself with surprising vigor in the estate planning field. If your clients are leaving outright, no-strings- attached inheritances or gifts to their beneficiaries, they are practically inviting disaster. But, there's hope. A properly designed estate plan protects a client's beneficiary and can help...

Lack of a Will Could Mean Chaos for Prince's Estate The famed recording artist Prince died leaving an unknown fortune and possibly no will or estate plan to dictate what to do with that fortune. Prince's sister, Tyka Nelson, told the probate court in the Minnesota county where Prince lived that her brother did not have a will, which means...