Category Archives: Asset Protection
Creditors, Death, and Protecting Your Child’s Inheritance
Few people move through this world completely free from debt, and debt does not automatically disappear when someone dies. Trying to preserve as many assets from creditors as possible is everyone’s goal, and this desire typically extends to even to a beneficiary child’s creditors, who may try to reach their inheritance in the event… Read More »
Living Trust vs. Medicaid Trust: How Relinquishing Control Can Preserve Your Estate
People spend their whole lives working and saving to build financial security into their retirement years, but this period of life often requires individuals to rethink the structure of their finances. The average person associates estate planning primarily as a way to arrange for the distribution of assets after death, which is a big… Read More »
Why Everyone Needs to Consider Asset Protection
The general goal of thoughtful and carefully-crafted estate plans is to leave a legacy to those left behind that represents the hard work performed by the deceased to amass the assets left to distribute and to ease the financial burden of loved ones once a person is gone. Proper estate planning documents are vitally… Read More »
Asset Transfers Related to Medicaid Qualification
Entering a nursing home is a decision few people consider lightly or happily, but it is one of the potential realities of growing older. Few can afford to pay the staggering costs of nursing home care without assistance, and most people turn to Medicaid to provide financial assistance to help cover this expense. However,… Read More »
When Medicaid Planning and Asset Protection Goes Wrong
With people generally living longer, healthier lives, distant from established family and friends, many do not have a support system in place in the event of a serious medical situation. Unfortunately, seniors are often lured by mailings and advertisements related to financial planning and long-term care planning, frequently sent by insurance agents, Medicaid planners,… Read More »