August 23, 2011Gifting Gifting, Real Estate, and the 5 Year Look Back Period Question: My 93 year old grandfather from North Carolina who is in good health moved in with my family 9...
June 14, 2011Estate Planning Should Parents Sign Over a Home to Children While Still Healthy? Question: My sisters and I worry about our elderly parents and a handicapped sister who all live in the same...
May 24, 2011Asset Protection, Short QA How to Protect Your Home Even if You Need Nursing Care Question: My father is 88 and lives in an assisted living community, private pay. My mother resides in a town...
May 20, 2011Inheritance, Short QA Homesteaded Florida Property with Low Property Tax Pay a New? Question: Will inheritor of Florida property with low property tax (homesteading) pay a new, higher tax? Answer: Thanks for the question....
March 11, 2011Asset Protection, Asset Protection Trust, Short QA Using a Trust to Protect a Home When in a Nursing Home If my mother, a widow in her 80s, sets up an irrevocable trust to protect her house, then needs nursing...
February 22, 2011Applying for Medicaid Benefits Reverse Mortgage – Countable Asset for Medicaid Application? Medicaid is a Federal/State program where the Federal government puts up most of the money, and the States administer how...