The Medicaid Handbook 2008 – Protecting Your Assets From Nursing Home Costs
The Medicaid Handbook – 2008 edition, by elder law attorney Sean W. Scott, provides valuable information and guidance on using Medicaid to pay for nursing home care. The Medicaid Handbook explains the complex Medicaid eligibility process in simple, easy-to-understand language. It contains illustrations and diagrams of key concepts and areas of interest including income trusts, spousal diversion and look-back periods. The text describes the legal ways to avoid being impoverished by the costs of nursing home care and still qualify for benefits. The reader will learn how to overcome the barriers to accessing the Medicaid program in order to protect their savings, their house, car, and way of life. This guide makes simple the complex subject of how to qualify for nursing home Medicaid. The 2008 edition contains up-to-date information as well as the most recent federal Medicaid law changes. It contains specific information on Medicaid’s financial eligibility requirements for all 50 states.The Medicaid Handbook – 2008 edition, by elder law attorney Sean W. Scott, provides valuable information and guidance on using Medicaid to pay for nursing home care. The Medicaid Handbook explains the complex Medicaid eligibility process in simple, easy-to-understand language. It contains illustrations and diagrams of key concepts and areas of interest including income trusts, spousal diversion and look-back periods. The text describes the legal ways to avoid being impoverished by the costs of nursing home care and still qualify for benefits. The reader will learn how to overcome the barriers to accessing the Medicaid program in order to protect their savings, their house, car, and way of life. This guide makes simple the complex subject of how to qualify for nursing home Medicaid. The 2008 edition contains up-to-date information as well as the most recent federal Medicaid law changes. It contains specific information on Medicaid’s financial eligibility requirements for all 50 states.
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How to Protect Your Family’s Assets from Devastating Nursing Home Costs: Medicaid Secrets (5th edition)
Written by an elder law attorney with over 25 years of experience, this book will help anyone with a family member faced with a long-term stay in a nursing home who wishes to preserve at least some of their assets by qualifying for the Medicaid program. You don’t have to be broke to qualify! For the first time ever, the inside secrets of high-priced estate planning and elder law attorneys are revealed. Includes a summary of all income and asset rules for both married and single individuals, together with numerous examples and several case studies, which take the reader through the same thought processes that an experienced elder law attorney would go through when analyzing a real-life client’s situation. The book includes tips on: how to title your home so you do not lose it to the state; how to make transfers to family members that won’t disqualify you from Medicaid; how annuities make assets “disappear”; smart tricks for “spending down” your assets; what to change in your will to save thousands of dollars if your spouse ever needs nursing home care; avoiding the state’s reimbursement claim following the nursing home resident’s death; and much more. The 2011 Fifth Edition has been expanded, revised, and completely updated to incorporate all changes in the law as of January 1, 2011, and includes two chapters on Veterans’ benefits.
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Estate Planning Smarts: A Practical, User-Friendly, Action-Oriented Guide, 2nd Edition
This best-selling book for baby boomers and their parents is essential reading, whether you are tackling the subject for the first time or revising your plan to reflect changes in the law, your finances or your personal life.
The expanded 2nd edition, available here, replaces the 1st edition, published in 2009. It covers the important 2010 tax changes that affect everyone and explains how to:
Appoint someone to handle your finances in case you are not able to some day because of illness or disability
Protect your spouse or partner
Provide for young or disabled children, and grandchildren, too
Hand down a family business
Build a charitable legacy
Shield assets from creditors
Transfer non-probate assets, such as joint accounts, retirement plans and co-owned real estate
Avoid family conflicts
A lawyer, award-winning journalist and dynamic speaker, Deborah L. Jacobs is a frequent contributor to The New York Times and Forbes. She has also been interviewed as an expert by reporters from many different media outlets, including The New York Times, Bloomberg News, Smart Money, Reuters, U.S. News & World Report, MarketWatch and CBS TV.
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Elder Law: Cases and Materials
The Fourth Edition of Elder Law integrates new developments in law and policy into the familiar framework of past editions. A mix of the specific and the general, the book examines the response of our society to an aging population, the legal rights of the elderly, and the legal, economic, and health challenges of the elderly. The authors use carefully edited classic and new cases, excerpts from the experts, and descriptive commentary to challenge and instruct students. Questions and problems provide the instructor an opportunity to query students and expand their understanding of the material.
The perspectives of legal practice and legislative development receive due attention in chapters that cover income and employment, housing and supportive services, nursing home quality and costs, substitute health and final decision making, and elders and crime. The broad scope of the book builds on foundational legal education in property rights, civil and human rights, and government action, while permitting the teacher the opportunity to supplement or expand upon the material.
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Frolik and Kaplan’s Elder Law in a Nutshell, (In a Nutshell (West Publishing))
Elder Law in a Nutshell, 4th ed. updates the previous edition to reflect the fast pace of legal change in this area of the law. Special attention is paid to major changes in Medicare, including the new Part D prescription drug program, means-testing of premiums, Medigap policies, and appeals procedures, as well as the 2006 amendments to Medicaid eligibility requirements that pertain to asset transfers, home equity limitations, and long-term care insurance incentives. The latest edition introduces the reader to the rapidly growing legal specialty of elder law. Addressing the myriad of legal issues encountered by the elderly, the book is a succinct overview of this complex intersection of law and social policy, including such areas as health care decision-making, pensions, Social Security, reverse mortgages, nursing homes, guardianship, long-term care, age discrimination in employment, and veterans benefits. The book is designed to assist anyone who has regular contract with older persons, including lawyers, law students, social workers, health care personnel, retirement planners and gerontologists or anyone who wishes a better insight into the world of elder law.
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