Category Archives: Medicaid
How Soon Should I Get Started on Medicaid Planning in Stuart?
Many seniors don’t like to think about what might happen if their health should decline, and for obvious reasons. It makes more sense to enjoy the “here and now” than to dwell on the worst-case scenario. That said, those who spend a little time planning for things like Medicaid could enjoy enormous benefits within… Read More »
How Asset Protection Planning Can Help Safeguard Your Legacy
Asset Protection Attorneys Palm Beach County and Martin County FL Most people spend a lifetime carefully accumulating whatever financial wealth and tangible assets they can, in order to live comfortably, eventually passing the balance of that legacy on to their beneficiaries. Comprehensive and highly-personalized estate plans and elder law measures should include strategies related… Read More »
How Medicaid Planning Today Can Help Pay for Long-Term Care Tomorrow
Medicaid Planning and Elder Law Attorneys, Palm Beach County and Martin County FL The Medicaid program was established to provide medical coverage to low-income American individuals and families for their healthcare needs. Among the benefits provided within Medicaid is financial coverage for those 65 and older, for long-term care in facilities such as assisted… Read More »
Palm Beach County Medicaid Planning Lawyers
“The Best Laid Plans…When Medicaid Planning Blows Everything Up and Why” You have taken great care of your clients. You have advised them well and carefully made certain all their legal documents are in order, their assets are titled correctly and their estate plan is fully implemented. You have gone to great lengths to… Read More »
What Is the 5-Year Look Back Period for Medicaid?
Most Florida residents considering Medicaid planning measures are aware that Medicaid has a five-year look back period that applies to asset transfers. However, they don’t precisely know how this works, nor how it affects their eligibility for Medicaid benefits. Before explaining the five-year look back period, though, we first need to explain how Medicaid… Read More »
Florida Medicaid Planning to Preserve Your Wealth
As you grow older, you or your loved ones may require long-term nursing home services that threaten to completely drain your savings. Although Medicaid is designed to pay for these kinds of costs if financial circumstances prevent a family from being able to afford them, Medicaid will not go into effect until all your… Read More »
Planning for Long-Term Care in Florida
Most Florida residents reading this article are probably healthy enough to take care of themselves right now, but we all grow older. Sooner or later, many of us will need some help completing our daily living tasks through long-term care. Long term care might include living in a nursing home with round-the-clock nurses and… Read More »
Medicaid and Long Term Care Planning
Kitroser Lewis & Mighdoll helps individuals and families with their long term care planning needs. We know how difficult it is to think about your future, when you might be incapacitated and unable to care for yourself, but we also know that individuals who are prepared for this possibility ahead of time will have… Read More »
What Does a Florida Elder Law Attorney Do?
Nobody wants to grow old but until we come up with a solution for this problem, it is a necessary part of life. Also, when it comes to estate planning for the elderly population, many aging Florida residents wonder if they have created an estate plan sufficient to finance the cost of future medical… Read More »
Don’t Avoid Long Term Care Planning: Tips to Cut Costs
When it comes to long term care planning, many Floridians are avoiding it. This is primarily because they are uninformed or unable to afford insurance. Many people are also in denial. However, the statistics don’t lie. At some point, approximately 70 percent of Americans age 65 or older will require nursing home care or… Read More »