We often think that Alabama Medicaid is the only way to pay for nursing home for our spouse or parent.
However, Medicaid is simply one solution among a number of solutions.
To properly determine how to pay for nursing home care, we have to look at the risk and then all of the options before we can adopt a … (Read more)
“Estate Planning” — we often think we don’t have enough to bother with. Or it is not worth the time and cost to create a plan. Or somehow if we don’t have an estate plan, nothing bad will happen.
But even if we have done nothing — we do have an estate plan.
Let’s talk about this for a moment.
We know this expression from the police shows … (Read more)
This is a big issue because professionals of all types (doctors, lawyers, financial advisors, CPAs, social workers, etc) and others love to give advice outside their area of expertise.
So what’s the problem with this?
Any professional should be competent in his or her area.
A problem happens when that professional lets ego to get to them and they start … (Read more)
Many times when we’re helping families plan long term care, or maybe helping out families who are in a long term care crisis, the subject of annuities tends to come up.
We give money to the insurance company, and they hand us back a contract that says, “We will give you X amount of money back over a span of Y months.”
This … (Read more)
The purpose of this section is to give you a short definition of many of the common words used in estate planning and elder law. Within each definition, the italicized terms are listed in this glossary so you can find the definition of those as well. Let me know any other words you would like to see added to this in the next edition — thanks! (This is from our upcoming book).
Activities of Daily Living (ADL): These are activities … (Read more)
Most people do not have any estate planning so it is good to know you need to do something. But what? Do you need a will or a trust?
I don’t know — it all depends on what you are trying to accomplish and where you are right now.
A will does this in one way and … (Read more)