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Settlements Affecting SSDI and SSI

Settlements Affecting SSDI and SSI

If you are wondering how a personal injury settlement will affect your Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) or Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits or whether you should pursue a personal injury claim at the same time, then you need to…

Comparison of Revocable and Irrevocable Trusts

Comparison of Revocable and Irrevocable Trusts

Estate planning involves many different types of trusts; the most common are revocable and irrevocable. Though there are some similarities, these two types of trusts serve different purposes.  Both can substitute for a last will and testament as an alternative…

How to Avoid Medicaid’s Penalty Period

How to Avoid Medicaid’s Penalty Period

For nursing home care, assisted living, in-home care, or adult foster care, individuals must meet certain income and asset requirements.  As a result of these rules, many candidates give away their money and resources to qualify. However, there is a…

Will-Making and Undue Influence

Will-Making and Undue Influence

Those who become quite elderly or ill are also vulnerable to being manipulated by those who would defraud or steal them. Targeted attacks on vulnerable older people to exert what attorneys deem “undue influence” constitutes elder abuse. It disrupts the older…

Five Common Estate Planning Mistakes

Five Common Estate Planning Mistakes

People spend the first half of their lives trying to achieve financial security and the second half of your life trying to maintain it. This adage is why many people spend substantial time and effort maximizing their legacy goals in…

Prepare With Your Parents for Their Future

Prepare With Your Parents for Their Future

Plan Ahead. Don’t Wait, for an Emergency. That sounds like something your mother might say, right? And how often have you wished that you’d followed mother’s good advice? Nobody really wants to think in advance about accidents or illness. But…

Life Insurance as Part of Your Estate Plan

Life Insurance as Part of Your Estate Plan

At first thought, life insurance may not seem to have a bearing on how to dispose of your assets in your estate plan. However, life insurance can be an integral, indispensably important part of a well-thought-out estate plan. There are…

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