Medicaid Planning

A federal court has ruled that banks can’t foreclose on surviving spouses of reverse mortgage holders when the spouses can’t pay off the mortgage. ...

When one member of a couple moves to a nursing home, we expect that spouse will be the first to die, but this isn’t always the case. What happens if a Medicaid recipient's spouse dies first?...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has released the 2014 federal guidelines for how much money the spouses of institutionalized Medicaid recipients may keep and the limit on how much a home can be worth for its owner...

A fear that the government will seize their house after they die is causing some people to not sign up for expanded Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act.

For many Medicaid applicants, individual retirement accounts (IRAs) are one of their biggest assets.

Many seniors consider transferring assets for estate and long-term care planning purposes, or just to help out children and grandchildren.

Here are some issues grandparents should consider before making gifts to grandchildren or other family members.

Nursing home patients are less likely to be subjected to unwanted medical interventions or hospitalizations under a program . . .

The authors of a nationally syndicated newspaper column on elder law have written a book based on decades of experience helping people both on the page and in the elder law office.