Texas Nursing Home Medicaid Qualification: Asset Protection & Elder Law Strategies
Learn how an elder care attorney can help you create a strategy to provide asset protection and access to long-term care with Medicaid planning.
Working Past 65? How to Avoid Lifelong, Costly Medicare Enrollment Mistakes
An essential part of securing your retirement is understanding how healthcare transitions work—especially if you decide to keep working past traditional retirement age. Here is a comprehensive, updated guide on navigating Medicare when you turn 65.
Moving in Retirement? Key Financial and Estate Planning Considerations
However, if you are retired and no longer generating employment income, you should make sure you weigh the financial implications of any potential move.
Redefining the Second Half: How to Master the Retirement Transition of Time, Money, and Purpose
Many people identify themselves with their work — but when someone is no longer working, they default to labeling themselves as “retired.”
Estate Planning Tips for Aging Solo
So, what happens with your estate plans if you are not in a traditional nuclear family? There is quite a lot that can fall under the umbrella of a non-traditional family, and the recommendations will vary depending on your specific circumstances.
How to Protect Your Estate from a Rotten Son-in-Law
Whatever the reason, whether your life is a bed of roses or a getting-worse-nightmare, there are things you can do now to insure what you leave will go to who you want. And when. And in what portion or portions.
Best Home Modifications to Maintain Independence
As they get older, many — even most — Americans prefer to remain in their own homes as long as they can, AKA “age in place.” However, to do that, many will need to make their residences safer and easier to navigate, by making home modifications.
Maintaining Independence as We Age
This is also the time to consider what plans are in place to ensure you can maintain your own independence in the coming years. This includes creating or updating your estate plan, to be sure it reflects your wishes for your future and your family’s future.
Estate Planning for Blended Families
Traditional, simple estate planning may not be sufficient to accomplish estate planning goals in many blended family situations.
The Hidden Trap in Your Estate Plan: Why Beneficiary Designations Can Ruin Your Last Will
When you set up your estate plan it is important to coordinate the legal planning documents that you or you and your attorney create with the document provided by your retirement account custodian and/or your life insurance carrier called a ‘Designation of Beneficiary.’
