Newspaper Column Avoiding Elder Financial Abuse Recently, the Internet Crime Complaint Center of the FBI reported almost ten thousand complaints involving tech scams targeting older adults … September 30, 2025 1 MIN READ
Newspaper Column Why Some Estate Plans Fail Clients become legally disabled when their treating physician determines that they are unable to handle their legal and financial affairs. … September 30, 2025 2 MIN READ
Newspaper Column Leaving Assets To Spendthrift Children Today, middle class people are leaving hundreds of thousands of dollars or more to their children. Often, parents are concerned … September 30, 2025 2 MIN READ
Newspaper Column Medical Order For Life-sustaining Treatments Medical Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (MOLST) forms are medical directives signed by a doctor and used to convey a patient's … September 30, 2025 2 MIN READ
Newspaper Column Cashing In Your Life Insurance Policy Everyone knows that you may surrender a life insurance policy at any time for the "cash surrender value". However, a … September 30, 2025 2 MIN READ
Newspaper Column Second Marriage Planning In second marriage planning, a co-trustee is sometimes recommended on the death of the first spouse. While both spouses are … September 30, 2025 2 MIN READ
Newspaper Column “Disclaimer Trusts” For Couples With Taxable Estates Here's how they work. Each spouse sets up their own revocable living trust. Husband and wife are co-trustees of his … September 30, 2025 2 MIN READ
Newspaper Column The State Of Estate Taxes The current exemption from New York estate taxes is 5.93 million, indexed for inflation. For example, last year it was … September 30, 2025 2 MIN READ
Newspaper Column Special Needs Children And Grandchildren Parents or grandparents of a disabled child should leave assets in a Special Needs Trust, to avoid the child being … September 30, 2025 2 MIN READ
Elder Law Green House Homes for the Elderly In decades and centuries past when people got old their children and younger relatives would care for them until they … January 7, 2015 2 MIN READ
Elder Law, Elder law estate planning Home Care and Hospice Services Still Uncertain about Federal Vaccine Requirements Frustration is growing for medical professionals including those who work at hospices as they wait for President Biden to reveal … November 11, 2021 2 MIN READ
Asset Protection, Estate Planning, Wills Reasons to Write an Electronic Will Regardless of Age While we don’t like to confront the thought none of us lives forever. When we pass we understandably want to … March 1, 2022 2 MIN READ