Narrative
Medicaid Asset Protection Planning
- Nursing Home Medicaid Planning
- No one wants to go to a nursing home. Sometimes our loved ones have to go to the nursing home for legal or medical reasons. Nursing homes may charge several thousand dollars per month. A long-term plan may help you in preserving most of your assets for your family and avoid Medicaid imposed penalties for gifts.
- Crisis Medicaid Asset Preservation and Medicaid Application
- I may be able to preserve assets. I will help you with all the Medicaid rules, applications, approvals and appeals.
Estate Planning – Wills and Trusts
I can assist you with signing advance legal documents that provide for the legal and orderly transfer of your death to the intended beneficiaries. Your wishes to provide for your loved ones, such as a spouse, children, grandchildren will be met.
Attorney Bennett will assist in drawing legal documents that will provide for the support and educational needs of your loved ones, all while eliminating or minimizing estate taxes to transfer your financial legacy to your family instead of the government.
Estate Planning – Probate Avoidance
You can choose to prepare documents, such as living trusts, irrevocable trusts or transfer on death deeds to avoid the lengthy probate process.
Incapacitation
- Advance Planning for Incapacitation
- A person can be left incapacitated due to a number of reasons, such as accidents, strokes, diseases, and more. If you become incapable of handling your health or finances, well-drafted documents you signed in advance can help you to avoid expensive guardianships. It will also help you to receive the care you deserve.
- Crisis Incapacitation
- Let Mark A. Bennett Attorney At Law help you with Supportive Decision Making Agreements or Guardianship to plan for incapacitation.
Post Death Settlement
Upon a person’s death, the collection of assets, payment of debts, liens, taxes, fulfillment of obligations, and the distribution of assets is passed on to the beneficiaries based on the deceased’s legal documents. It must be done according to the law, and Mark A. Bennett Attorney At Law can assist in that.
Even if the deceased hasn’t left behind any such documents, the process must be done legally. The process can be frustrating, costly, open to legal challenge, and more.
An experienced attorney can save you time and money by legally proceeding under a will, a trust, or neither.