For most people, receiving an inheritance is something good, but for a nursing home resident on Medicaid, an inheritance may not be such welcome news. Medicaid has strict income and resource limits, so an inheritance can make a Medicaid recipient ineligible for...
An Iowa appeals court rules that a trustee of his father’s trust is not liable for interference with a contract when he stopped paying his father’s ex-wife alimony because his duty was to preserve the estate for the beneficiaries of the trust, not to ensure that she...
Basic Facts if you are ready to have a visit in a nursing home, assisted living facility, home plus, residential health care facility or boarding care home in Kansas Visitation First you need to know your COVID-19 County Positivity Rate. Call your local public health...
When a (d)(4)(A) trust runs low on assets or is unable to find a trustee, the obvious solution is to send it to a (d)(4)(C) (pooled) trust. But there has been no Social Security Administration (SSA) policy allowing such a transfer without triggering payback...
While we are not exactly sure how this happened in your mother’s case or why the facility failed to communicate with you, we can guess what happened. The Social Security Administration does not honor powers of attorney. Instead, they require a “Representative Payee”...
When you inherit property, such as a house or stocks, the property is usually worth more than it was when the original owner purchased it. If you were to sell the property, there could be huge capital gains taxes. Fortunately, when you inherit property, the property’s...
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