Practice Areas
- Covers legal and practical issues affecting people over the age of 65 and their caretakers, friends, and family
- Focuses on the needs of families and individuals as they age
- Senior housing and home care
- Long-term care in a nursing home
- Guardianships and Conservatorships
- Medicare
- Advise clients on how to obtain Public Benefits, including Medicaid
- Asset Protection
- Involves planning for retirement, the possibility of disability, incapacity, home health care, and placement in a nursing home
- Involves determining how an individual’s assets will be preserved, managed, and distributed after death.
- Plans for the management of an individual’s properties and financial obligations in the event they become incapacitated.
- Wills
- Trusts
- Living Wills
- Powers of Attorney
- Without an estate plan, your assets can wind up in legal limbo for years.
- Should be revisited upon marriage, divorce, the death of a spouse, or the birth of a child or grandchild.
- Probate is the process of administering and settling an estate after someone dies. It can include assets such as real estate, bank accounts, and financial investments
- Court supervised process that gives recognition to a will and appoints the Personal Representative (or Executor) who will administer the estate and distribute assets.
- Probate gives potential heirs or beneficiaries the chance to ask the Probate Court to resolve points of disagreement.
- We can help you form a corporation, including preparing Articles of Incorporation, Bylaws, and Shareholder Agreements.
- We assist clients with properly establishing a Limited Liability Company (LLC) by preparing Articles of Organization and Operating Agreements.
- Helps ensure fairness in a business transaction between other businesses involved in a deal or dispute.
- Protects the rights of business owners.