Special Needs Law Group Blog
Will Making a Gift Conflict with Medicaid?
People usually make gifts for three reasons—because they enjoy giving gifts, because they want to protect assets, or minimize tax liability. However, gifting in one’s elder years can have expensive and unintended consequences, as reported in the article “IRS standards...
What Can Happen When You are Asked to Sign a Nursing Home Agreement?
The services provided by a skilled nursing facility are very important. They are also very expensive. The person who arrives at an elder law office with a bill from a nursing home for $19,400—$646.66 per day—is often the same person who signed an electronic version of...
Celebrating 10 Years of Service
At Special Needs Law Group of Massachusetts, we're celebrating 10 years of service in the disability community as a law firm solely dedicated to offering specialized legal services to families with disabilities. The creation of our law group in July 2012 was based on...
Financial Crimes Against the Elderly and Disabled Are Escalating
In August, it was discovered that nearly $1 million in SNAP benefits and $250,000 in DTA (Department of Transitional Assistance) cash benefits have been stolen from approximately 2,000 Massachusetts households primarily in the Brockton, Quincy, Boston area. The...
Estate Planning for Special Needs Children
Part of providing comprehensive estate planning for families includes being prepared to address the needs of family members with special needs. Some of the tools used are trusts, guardianship and tax planning, according to the article “How to Help Clients With Special...
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