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What is Special Needs Planning?
If you have a disabled child, or a disabled loved one for whom you provide financial support or care, part of your estate planning process likely should include special needs planning. Likewise, if you have a disability yourself, it is important to consider special needs planning in connection with any other estate planning you… Read More »
Top Things to Know About Medicaid for Older Adults
If you have earned a relatively good income for most of your adult life, or your elderly parents lived relatively comfortably on a steady salary during their working years, the idea that you need to know about Medicaid and Medicaid planning may surprise you. For many Connecticut residents, they know about Medicaid solely as… Read More »
How Much Does Long-Term Care Cost?
One of the major issues that elder law attorneys assist clients with on a regular basis is the matter of paying for long-term care. Much too often, older adults do not plan ahead with any strategies for asset protection or paying for long-term care. Then, in what seems like a mere moment, that older… Read More »
Retaining a Life Estate in Your Home
Part of any estate planning process in Canton or elsewhere in Connecticut involves working with an attorney to consider who will inherit your assets after you die, and how those individuals or entities will inherit your assets. In addition, for many people, estate planning involves discussions with a Connecticut estate planning lawyer about protecting… Read More »
Estate Planning and Digital Assets
Estate planning in Connecticut often involves a range of documents and tools to ensure that assets are protected and that family members, loved ones, and charitable entities will be able to receive those assets smoothly after your death. The specific documents that make up a person’s estate plan will depend in part on the… Read More »
Should Millennials Consider Estate Planning
A common misconception about estate planning — a process that involves creating a will, considering guardianship issues, executing advance directives, establishing trusts, and more — is that it is only something you need to do when you are much older or if you become ill. Yet in truth, all adults should be thinking carefully… Read More »
Understanding Temporary Conservatorship
Conservators are individuals in Connecticut who can be appointed to manage the financial or personal affairs of another person. In the context of aging adults and elderly parents, it is important for adult children to have a general understanding of how conservatorships work in the state and to know that conservators can be appointed… Read More »
How Can a Connecticut Elder Law Attorney Help?
Many older adults resist the idea of seeking advice from an elder law attorney, and it can be difficult for adult children to convince their aging parents that they should obtain legal advice about issues such as asset protection and estate planning. Even though it may be difficult to convince your elderly parents that… Read More »
How to Leave Assets to Your Adult Children
Many older adults in Connecticut who are just beginning to think about estate planning want to ensure that they are able to leave important assets and possessions to their adult children. Often, elderly Connecticut residents who have never worked with an estate planning attorney on such matters assume that the only way to leave… Read More »
10 Things to Know About Powers of Attorney in Connecticut
Creating a power of attorney is an important part of estate planning in Connecticut. Yet many people do not understand exactly what a power of attorney is, what it does, or how it works. Our Connecticut estate planning lawyers can help. The following are ten things to know about powers of attorney in Connecticut…. Read More »