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Mom Doesn't Have an Estate Plan. How Do We Manage Her Money?
If my mother does not have a living trust/estate plan and becomes incapacitated, how does the conservator manage the savings, properties, and her monthly annuity and Social Security?...
Read moreHow Do Beneficiaries Find Out Someone Is Contesting a Will?
If the executor/trustee is contesting a will, how would they go about notifying the beneficiaries?...
Read moreHow Do I Calculate Spousal Impoverishment Numbers?
How does a person go about implementing the spousal impoverishment to their situation? I see all this information, calculators, etc., but nowhere do I find direct instructions about how to get it going.
Read moreHow Do I Resign From a Power of Attorney?
How do I resign from medical and financial power of attorney and as executor of a will?...
Read moreWill Selling a Co-Owned Car Affect Medicaid Long-Term Care?
If I sell a car in North Carolina for salvage (for $800), will it affect Medicaid for long-term care in Texas? (The car is co-owned by my husband, who is in a nursing home in Texas.)...
Read moreCan My Spouse's Ex Make Him Give Her Access to His Accounts?
My husband is a dementia patient. His ex-wife and son took him to his bank recently to access his bank accounts, without my knowledge. Is this legal?...
Read moreWhen Does Medicaid Estate Recovery Apply?
If at a different time in your life, you received Medicaid as your insurance, as you get older, will this be held against you? Will Medicaid take from your estate just for having Medicaid insurance?...
Read moreCan Medicaid Deny an Applicant If I Don't Have Some Records?
I am applying for Institutional Medicaid in New York for my father. He passed away after I submitted application, and they are asking for certain bank records, some of which I have, but others I don't have and cannot locate...
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