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Meet John Michaelson

John Michaelson

Michaelson Law

John Michaelson is the owner and managing partner of Michaelson Law. Over the last 20 years, John has helped thousands of clients build and protect their businesses and estates. He is known for taking a personal interest in his clients and is an active member of several local and national organizations that are dedicat...

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Meet Laura Stubberud

Laura Stubberud

Laura E. Stubberud, Esq.

Laura Stubberud has three decades of experience in the practice of estate planning, probate and trust administration and special needs and elder planning. After graduation from UCLA, she studied law at Southwestern University School of Law , graduating in 1992.  Laura Stubberud is a member of both the Nevada and...

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Meet Kim Boyer

Kim Boyer

Boyer Law Group

Kim Boyer is Certified as an Elder Law Attorney by the National Elder Law Foundation. She practices in the areas of probate, trust administration, elder law, estate planning, guardianships, trusts, powers of attorney, and other estate planning matters. Ms. Boyer received her law degree magna cum laude, from the Un...

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Meet Daniel Goodsell

Daniel Goodsell

Goodsell Law Group

ESTATE PLANNING ESTATE PLANNING UPDATES INDEPENDENT REVIEW ASSET PROTECTION GUARDIANSHIP FIDUCIARY GUIDANCE MEDICAID PLANNING SPECIAL NEEDS TRUSTS PROBATE DEFENSE ESTATE ADMINISTRATION FIDUCIARY LITIGATION CREDITOR CLAIMS

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Meet John Michaelson

John Michaelson

Michaelson Law

John Michaelson is the owner and managing partner of Michaelson Law. Over the last 20 years, John has helped thousands of clients build and protect their businesses and estates. He is known for taking a personal interest in his clients and is an active member of several local and national organizations that are dedicat...

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Meet Charlotte Johnson

Charlotte Johnson

Elder Law of Arizona

For the past several years, Charlotte C. Johnson has practiced elder law, long term care planning (ALTCS/VA), special needs planning, and estate planning exclusively.  She enjoys helping her clients find legal solutions for the common issues that face the aging and special needs populations.  Ms. Johnson was...

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Meet Peter Robinson

Peter Robinson

API Law

For the past several years, Peter H. Robinson has practiced special needs and estate planning. Peter enjoys helping his clients find legal solutions for the common issues that face all families in our modern day and age.  He is a graduate of a Seton Hall University School of Law in Newark, New Jersey. Prior to at...

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Meet Esther Wang

Esther Wang

The Elder and Disability Law Firm, APC

Principal Attorney Esther C. Wang has been providing quality legal services since 1991. She is an accredited attorney by the Department of Veterans Affairs to represent veterans and their family members. Esther is also a member of the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys, California State Bar Association, and the Sa...

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Meet Debra Streeter

Debra Streeter

Streeter Law Group APC

About Debra Leffler Streeter: While I have worked in other areas of law, I have found that my passion is in working with families that want to make sure they have a plan in place to protect their decisions and their assets. You have worked hard for your assets, whether as business owners or by being smart with saving,...

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Medicaid 101
What Medicaid Covers

In addition to nursing home care, Medicaid may cover home care and some care in an assisted living facility. Coverage in your state may depend on waivers of federal rules.

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How to Qualify for Medicaid

To be eligible for Medicaid long-term care, recipients must have limited incomes and no more than $2,000 (in most states). Special rules apply for the home and other assets.

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Medicaid’s Protections for Spouses

Spouses of Medicaid nursing home residents have special protections to keep them from becoming impoverished.

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What Medicaid Covers

In addition to nursing home care, Medicaid may cover home care and some care in an assisted living facility. Coverage in your state may depend on waivers of federal rules.

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How to Qualify for Medicaid

To be eligible for Medicaid long-term care, recipients must have limited incomes and no more than $2,000 (in most states). Special rules apply for the home and other assets.

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Medicaid’s Protections for Spouses

Spouses of Medicaid nursing home residents have special protections to keep them from becoming impoverished.

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Medicaid Planning Strategies

Careful planning for potentially devastating long-term care costs can help protect your estate, whether for your spouse or for your children.

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Estate Recovery: Can Medicaid Take My House After I’m Gone?

If steps aren't taken to protect the Medicaid recipient's house from the state’s attempts to recover benefits paid, the house may need to be sold.

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Help Qualifying and Paying for Medicaid, Or Avoiding Nursing Home Care

There are ways to handle excess income or assets and still qualify for Medicaid long-term care, and programs that deliver care at home rather than in a nursing home.

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Are Adult Children Responsible for Their Parents’ Care?

Most states have laws on the books making adult children responsible if their parents can't afford to take care of themselves.

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Applying for Medicaid

Applying for Medicaid is a highly technical and complex process, and bad advice can actually make it more difficult to qualify for benefits.

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Alternatives to Medicaid

Medicare's coverage of nursing home care is quite limited. For those who can afford it and who can qualify for coverage, long-term care insurance is the best alternative to Medicaid.

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ElderLaw 101
Estate Planning

Distinguish the key concepts in estate planning, including the will, the trust, probate, the power of attorney, and how to avoid estate taxes.

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Grandchildren

Learn about grandparents’ visitation rights and how to avoid tax and public benefit issues when making gifts to grandchildren.

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Guardianship/Conservatorship

Understand when and how a court appoints a guardian or conservator for an adult who becomes incapacitated, and how to avoid guardianship.

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Health Care Decisions

We need to plan for the possibility that we will become unable to make our own medical decisions. This may take the form of a health care proxy, a medical directive, a living will, or a combination of these.

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Estate Planning

Distinguish the key concepts in estate planning, including the will, the trust, probate, the power of attorney, and how to avoid estate taxes.

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Grandchildren

Learn about grandparents’ visitation rights and how to avoid tax and public benefit issues when making gifts to grandchildren.

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Guardianship/Conservatorship

Understand when and how a court appoints a guardian or conservator for an adult who becomes incapacitated, and how to avoid guardianship.

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Health Care Decisions

We need to plan for the possibility that we will become unable to make our own medical decisions. This may take the form of a health care proxy, a medical directive, a living will, or a combination of these.

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Long-Term Care Insurance

Understand the ins and outs of insurance to cover the high cost of nursing home care, including when to buy it, how much to buy, and which spouse should get the coverage.

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Medicare

Learn who qualifies for Medicare, what the program covers, all about Medicare Advantage, and how to supplement Medicare’s coverage.

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Retirement Planning

We explain the five phases of retirement planning, the difference between a 401(k) and an IRA, types of investments, asset diversification, the required minimum distribution rules, and more.

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Senior Living

Find out how to choose a nursing home or assisted living facility, when to fight a discharge, the rights of nursing home residents, all about reverse mortgages, and more.

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Social Security

Get a solid grounding in Social Security, including who is eligible, how to apply, spousal benefits, the taxation of benefits, how work affects payments, and SSDI and SSI.

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Special Needs Planning

Learn how a special needs trust can preserve assets for a person with disabilities without jeopardizing Medicaid and SSI, and how to plan for when caregivers are gone.

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Veterans Benefits

Explore benefits for older veterans, including the VA’s disability pension benefit, aid and attendance, and long-term care coverage for veterans and surviving spouses.

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