How Gifts Can Affect Medicaid Eligibility
What are Medicaid’s Gifting Rules? Under Medicaid law, if you gift assets within five years before applying for Long-Term Care benefits, you will be ineligible...
Is it Time to Review your Estate Planning Documents?
If you are over the age of 60 and you haven’t updated your Estate Plan in many years, it’s almost certain that you need to...
The Hazards of Online Legal Forms
The internet can be a wonderful resource for all kinds of information. Use of legal documents, unfortunately, is not one of them. Free online forms...
Estate Planning Tools – Pay on Death / Transfer on Death
What does Transfer on Death mean and how does it work as an Estate Planning tool?
What Can You Do When A Friend Loses Capacity?
Throughout all of this, though I was able to call and report my concerns, I had no right to know what was actually being done...
What is the Washington Death with Dignity Act?
In 2008, Washington became the second state to adopt the “Death with Dignity Act.” Under this act, medical doctors and osteopathic physicians must prescribe terminally...
March 2019 Newsletter
What’s the Difference Between a POLST Form and an Advanced Directive? March 2019 Newsletter – What’s the difference between a POLST form and an Advance...
Special Needs Trusts
If you have a child who has special needs and is unable to care for themselves because of those needs, you may be interested in...
Protecting Assets and Qualifying for Medicaid
In our last article, Current Medicaid Standards for Washington, we listed the requirements that must be met in order to qualify for Medicaid Long-Term Care...
