The Special Needs Planning Guide: How to Prepare for Every Stage in Your Child’s Life
This book is a general guide for helping families plan for two generations (i.e., the financial planning needs of the primary caregiver and the person with disabilities). For some readers, it will relieve their anxieties about planning, and for others it will raise their awareness about the need to plan. Since every family’s specific situation is unique, the book is not intended to provide a specific formula for success. However, it bridges the gap between the ultimate vision a family has for their child and the financial realities of making these dreams come true. The structure of the book follows a chronological guideline of the critical transition periods that families face. The book also focuses on identifying and protecting government benefits as well as strategies to supplement government benefits. In addition to the basics of financial planning, the book includes family case studies; sample intent letters, checklists, forms, and other planning tools; a glossary of terms; and resources.
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The Elder Law Hawaii Handbook: Protecting Your Health, Wealth, and Personal Wishes (Latitude 20 Books)
This text describes the essential information needed by individuals and their families or partners who face serious issues such as declining health and the need for long-term care, appropriate legal and financial planning, and dealing with death, bereavement and grief. In straightforward language, the authors discuss basic legal, financial and healthcare preparations, including information about lawyers and how they can help you in planning your future, drawing up a valid will, probate, executing a durable power of attorney, eligibility requirements for Medicare, Medicaid and other state and federal medical assistance programmes.
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Estate Planning for Blended Families: Providing for Your Spouse & Children in a Second Marriage
In almost half of all stepfamilies, each parent brings one or more children to a new marriage and while other books give general information about wills, trusts, and taxes, many of them may not apply to couples in second marriages.
Estate Planning for Blended Families is the first book for parents in second marriages who want to provide both for their current spouse and their children from the current and prior marriages. Author Richard Barnes has years of experience guiding couples through the process of setting goals, discussing competing priorities, and choosing strategies and this book covers:
Estate Planning for Blended Families will also provide sample estate plans as well as the latest information regarding federal and state laws. (20090502)
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New Times, New Challenges: Law and Advice for Savvy Seniors and Their Families
If your parents are growing older, if you are growing older (or at least you hope to), you will face new times and new challenges. This book will help. A law professor and a leading elder law lawyer team up to offer legal and practical advice on retirement issues (finances, housing, health care), walk you through various estate planning options (living trusts, wills, advance directives), and help your family in truly sad times, disability and death in the family. They also help you avoid, and, if that’s too late, deal with bad folks: caretakers who abuse elders, obnoxious bill collectors, scam artists, identity thieves, and those discriminate on the basis of age or disability. Alas, there are even legal problems associated with grandparenting and remarriage (the triumph of hope over experience).
As to driving and sex, while there is both good and bad news, one message stands out: never at the same time.
The topics may be sobering, but the style is not. It’s a good read, often funny and even, on occasion, profound. Charles Sabatino, the director of the American Bar Association’s Commission on Law and Aging, writes that the book is ”an encyclopedic legal reference with the down-home philosophy and wit of Will Rogers, wryly enriched by poetry, humor, and existential musings.” Doctor Andrew Weil finds the book ”entertaining and uplifting with very practical and sensible suggestions.” He will use it himself and will recommend it to patients, friends, and loved ones.
Whether you buy this book or not, the time is now to face the new challenges that are hurrying near. How? Sit down for an hour and write a letter to your family, covering such things as end-of-life care, living arrangements in the case of disability, and who gets the grandfather clock. (There is a suggested model in the book.) Discuss your letter with loved ones. You will save you and your family, money, confusion, and heartbreak. Challenges, unaddressed, fester.
Professor Hegland has spent his career teaching law, mostly at Arizona but also UCLA and Harvard. He has degrees from Stanford, UC Berkeley, and Harvard. Author of several legal books, he is known for his wit and clarity. Robert Fleming has spent his career practicing elder law. He lectures nationally and authors a legal treatise used by many of the nation’s elder law lawyers.
They know their stuff. And now you can too.
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Protecting Your Family’s Assets in Florida: How to Legally Use Medicaid to Pay for Nursing Home and Assisted Living Care
In Florida, private-pay costs at nursing facilities can exceed ,000 per month. Many families cannot afford to pay such excessive amounts which can total more than ,000 per year. The Florida Medicaid program can offer a solution to the high cost of nursing home and assisted living care. But Medicaid has such strict asset-and-income limitations that most people believe it can be used by only the very poor. Fortunately, the U.S. Congress and Florida law provide opportunities to help families receive financial assistance through Medicaid and protect hard-earned assets. With proper planning, even those whose assets and income greatly exceed the limits for Medicaid can qualify for benefits. Florida Eldercare Attorney John R. Frazier describes multiple strategies that families can use to qualify for Medicaid assistance. Protecting Your Family’s Assets in Florida includes details covering the following topics, specific to both Florida and Eldercare: An Overview of the Benefits of Medicaid; Three Florida Agencies that Handle Medicaid; The Three Tests for Medicaid Qualification; Three Medicaid Programs for Nursing Homes and Assisted Living Facilities; Veterans Benefits; How Single People Can Protect Their Assets; Additional Ways Married Individuals Can Protect Their Assets; The Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 (DRA) in Florida; Other Important Medicaid Planning Considerations; and, Life Care Planning. Whether planning for a family’s future or in immediate, desperate need of lawful answers for the reader, a spouse or a loved one, Protecting Your Family’s Assets in Florida can help. Written in easy-to-read language, it provides examples for the most common Medicaid scenarios faced by families in Florida. Complete with a glossary that defines terms specific to both Eldercare law and applications for Medicaid in Florida.
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