With nursing home care in some parts of the country costing as much as $10,000 a month, a long-term need for care can deplete even the best-planned estate. As a result, many seniors buy long-term care insurance to cover this risk. One great advantage of this insurance...
Massachusetts’ highest court holds that a conservator was acting pursuant to a judge’s approval when she evicted a tenant and sold a house, so she is a quasi judicial officer and is immune from claims that she breached her fiduciary duty and converted...
Nebraska’s highest court declares a deceased woman’s marriage void and reverses financial transactions she made benefiting her husband, finding that she lacked the mental capacity to enter into the marriage. Malousek v. Meyer (Neb., No. S-20-470, July 30, 2021). Molly...
As COVID-19 cases start to rise again due to the highly contagious Delta variant, nursing homes are considering requiring staff members to be vaccinated. Only 59 percent of nursing home staff are partially or fully vaccinated nationwide, and the percentages are much...
Families of children with special needs face a daunting challenge when their dependents age out of school. Right now, there is a paucity of state support in America for people whose disabilities mean they are unable to care for themselves, leaving family members,...
This is a difficult question and one reason to avoid joint accounts. While joint accounts permit the joint owner to manage financial affairs for the original owner, they also remain the joint owner’s property when the original owner passes away. However, in many cases...
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