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Natalie Green Hosea

TrustWorks Law, PLLC

Natalie Green Hosea

TrustWorks Law, PLLC

Natalie Green Hosea

TrustWorks Law, PLLC

Natalie Green Hosea serves as the Regional Partner for TrustWorks in Georgia, leveraging her extensive experience to steer and inspire local attorneys in delivering top-tier legal services. Based in Atlanta, Natalie is celebrated for her holistic approach and adeptness in guiding clients through estate planning and probate matters since founding her own firm in 2005. Transitioning primarily to estate planning and probate law in 2015, Natalie draws from her early career to identify rare issues, empowering clients with crucial knowledge to protect their financial interests through strategic business structuring and trust creation.

Natalie's personal journey of raising a special-needs child provides her with invaluable insight into the challenges confronting similar families, reflected in her membership in the Academy of Special Needs Planners and her commitment to tailored services. Beyond her legal expertise, Natalie actively engages with her community and professional associations, holding positions such as Vice Chair of the Cherokee County Board of Ethics and participating in various sections of the Georgia Bar Association.

Licensed to practice in state and federal courts in Georgia and Tennessee, including both states' Supreme Courts and the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, Natalie embodies a fusion of legal acumen and financial strategy. She serves as a guiding beacon for clients navigating intricate legal terrains, ensuring not only their financial security but also the preservation of their legacies. In her leisure time, Natalie cherishes family moments and contributes to her husband's live concert events at Twisted Creek Farm, where she tends to her beloved Spanish horses, Benicio and Lobito.

Firm Description

Practice Areas

Estate Planning 

Estate Probate 

Special Needs Planning & Trusts

Medicaid Planning

Hours

Day From To
Monday By Appointment Only
Tuesday By Appointment Only
Wednesday By Appointment Only
Thursday By Appointment Only
Friday By Appointment Only

Cost

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Main Office

61 Linton St.
Suite 401
Woodstock, GA 30188

150 S Pine Island Rd.
Suite 270
Plantation, FL 33324

5550 Glades Road
Suite 500
Boca Raton, FL 33431

20200 West Dixie Highway
Suite 902
Aventura, FL 33180

5550 Glades Road
Suite 500
Boca Raton, FL 33431

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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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