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- Pennsylvania May Get Seventy Percent of Special Medicaid Funding
- 12 Strategies to Prevent Alzheimer's
Estate Administration and Probate
- Why Was Probate Created?
- Before you add your child's name to your bank accounts, ask yourself this question: Do you know how much credit card debt your child has? Are you really familar with your child's credit scores?
- Finding Tips On Estate Planning at the Theatre
- Update on the Status of Federal Estate Tax
- Michael Jackson Estate Makes Land Mark Estate Deal With Sony
Asset Protection
- "Do I Qualify For Financial Assistance For Nursing Home Care?"
- Free Asset Protection Seminar For Anyone Considering Long Term Care Planning
- Medicaid and Caregiving: Who Are the Ones Taking the Lead?
- Medicaid Compromise in Health Care Bill On the Chopping Block
- Avoid Pitfalls of Medicaid
Veterans Benefits
Caregivers
- 6 Top Articles on Caregiving and Planning
- How To Keep Seniors Involved In Social Activities
- Three Things To Consider When Hiring Private Caregivers For Someone With Alzheimer's Disease
- Ask These Ten Questions Before Going Into a Retirement Community
- Elder Independence: Developing Your Own Personal Health Care Goals
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- Introducing Associate Attorney Michele Sabo
- 10 Ways To Ruin Your Retirement
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- Free Webinar From Pennsylvania AARP
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- Social Security Payback Option Eliminated...
Posted on 12/10/2010 - 2011 Seminar Page Updated...
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Medicaid
- 7 Key Tests To Qualify For Medicaid
- Planning for Medicaid: Guide To What You Can and Cannot Keep
- Paying the Nursing Home: A Married Couple's Concerns, and What To Expect in the Medicaid Planning Process
- Home care is growing as a result of the increasing incidence of Alzheimer’s and other dementias, and is the world’s largest provider of non-medical in-home care and companionship services for seniors.
- "Why a 30-Minute Consultation? Do I Really Need One?"
Living Trusts
- The Three Advantages to the Revocable Living Trust
- Understanding Financial and Legal Planning Techniques: Management of a Family Business or Real Estate With a Trust
- What is the difference between a will and a trust?
- Lessons On Probate and the Benefit of a Trust From Michael Jackson's Estate Distribution
- Myths about Revocable Living Trusts, Lawyers and Estate Planning. You want the best Elder Law Attorney and Estate Planning Attorney on your side. Call us for a FREE consultation at (800) 879 0984
Estate Administration and Probate
- What Determines the Necessity For Probate?
- What happens in Estate matters when an individual becomes incompetent?
- When Pennsylvania Estate Recovery Can Take Place By Law
- Joint Bank Accounts - Risks and Benefits
- Guidelines for Gifts and Joint Accounts
Asset Protection
- 10 Reasons to Consider Long-Term Care Insurance
- Solve Eligibility Problems Using the Personal Care Contract
- What Can Seniors and Their Families To Legally Protect Themselves In These Dire Times?
- Gift tax annual exclusion to remain unchanged in 2010. Contact us to see how this factors into your estate plan
- Gift tax annual exclusion to remain unchanged in 2010. Contact us to see how this factors into your estate plan
Veterans Benefits
General
- The Seven Stages of Alzheimer's Disease
- Three Types of Special Needs Trusts
- Future of the Estate Tax: What's Next for Estate Tax? Because Congress hasn't replaced law that expired in 2009, uncertainty is the rule.
- Alzheimer Care: 6 Advantages to Hiring Home Health Aides Through Agency
- Feel overwhelmed about a loved one's Long Term Care Planning? Start by ordering one of our many FREE reports found below, and contact us for a FREE Initial Consultation
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- Estate Administration and Probate
- Why Was Probate Created?
- Before you add your child's name to your bank accounts, ask yourself this question: Do you know how much credit card debt your child has? Are you really familar with your child's credit scores?
- Finding Tips On Estate Planning at the Theatre
- Update on the Status of Federal Estate Tax
- Michael Jackson Estate Makes Land Mark Estate Deal With Sony
- The Governator Says Health Reform Will "Beat Up" California
- When a will isn’t enough
- Want to avoid probate? You have options!
- Managing your online accounts and passwords
- Unexpected problems resulting from an untimely death
- The importance of getting the right legal advice when administering an estate
- Is it time for a beneficiary audit?
- The importance of estate planning in a down economy
- Asset Protection
- "Do I Qualify For Financial Assistance For Nursing Home Care?"
- Free Asset Protection Seminar For Anyone Considering Long Term Care Planning
- Medicaid and Caregiving: Who Are the Ones Taking the Lead?
- Medicaid Compromise in Health Care Bill On the Chopping Block
- Avoid Pitfalls of Medicaid
- How To Describe Pain in a Social Security Disability Case
- How much does long-term care really cost?
- Paying for long-term care
- Unmarried couples and estate planning issues
- Why a durable financial power of attorney makes sense
- Will proposed changes to medical estate recovery laws swallow what is left of your estate?
- Caregivers
- 6 Top Articles on Caregiving and Planning
- How To Keep Seniors Involved In Social Activities
- Three Things To Consider When Hiring Private Caregivers For Someone With Alzheimer's Disease
- Ask These Ten Questions Before Going Into a Retirement Community
- Elder Independence: Developing Your Own Personal Health Care Goals
- Caregivers: Take Care Of Yourself First
- ELDER CARE, HEALTH CARE, AND CARING IN GENERAL
- ELDER CARE, HEALTH CARE, AND CARING IN GENERAL
- ELDER CARE, HEALTH CARE, AND CARING IN GENERAL
- General
- Caring For an Alzheimer's Patient
- Introducing Associate Attorney Michele Sabo
- 10 Ways To Ruin Your Retirement
- Secrets To Happy Retirement
- Free Webinar From Pennsylvania AARP
- 2010 Blizzard and the Ghosts of Winters Past
- ELDER CARE, HEALTH CARE, AND CARING IN GENERAL
- Elder Law, Elder Care, and a Little Bit of Everything
- TIPS ON HEALTH CARE, ELDER CARE
- Contest For Caregivers
- KDKA's Jennifer Antkowiak's Cargiving Tips: Finding Peace
- IMPORTANT REPORT EVERY SPECIAL NEEDS FAMILY MUST KNOW ABOUT ESTATE PLANNING
- Tips on Elder Care: Nursing Home Reform Act
- Free Assistance Program for Seniors and Veterans
- What's So Bad About Probate?
- Long Term Care or Estate Planning? - Find an Elder Law Attorney
- Have you considered a durable power of attorney?
- New Estate Planning Radio Show on WJAS!!!
- NEW VIDEOS!!!
- Planning for your autistic child’s future can bring peace of mind
- Five estate planning mistakes made by parents with special needs children
- Safety issues for elders
- Could you benefit from a Special Needs Trust?
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News
- Social Security Payback Option Eliminated
- 2011 Seminar Page Updated
- What Next For the Estate Tax?
- Care Connection Offers Dementia Caregivers Weekly Phone Support
- New Free Report! A Guide To Alzheimer's Care
- How Britain Plans to Confront Its Long Term Care Crisis
- Rendell Says States Unlikely To Get Extra Medicaid Funds
- Upcoming Client Seminars
- Recent Round-Table With Geriatric Care Workers on Elder Law Topics
- Coming June 1st: Infomercial starring Pittsburgh Elder Law Attorneys
- How To Avoid Wasteful Spending On Health Care
- Exciting, New Partnership With Eldercare Consultants
- Health Care Reform 101: What Does It Mean For Seniors, Medicaid
- The Growing Rate of Dementia and Alzheimer's
- Let it snow! Pittsburgh Extends Property Tax Deadline
- Estate Tax, Medicaid, Social Security Changes Ring In New Year
- Health Care Debate: Long Term Insurance Overhaul
- Caregivers: For First Time State Looks To License Home Care Agencies
- Lawmakers ready to permanently fix the estate tax at 2009 levels
- Survey uncovers surprising long-term care myths and facts
- Healthcare reform may offer another option for long-term care planning
- Main beneficiary to Michael Jackson’s estate shakes up her probate team
- $6.4 million fine for companies guilty of scamming seniors with pricey legal plans
- Woman with living will allowed to die in the U.K.
- Illinois Supreme Court upholds will restricting inheritance based on religion
- Preparing a living trust for your children? Don’t forget to name a guardian
- Challenge to estate administration can happen even with “no contest” clause
- Estate plans don’t expire, but they do need to be updated
- Will the estate tax repeal go forward in 2010?
- Can you make your trust a beneficiary of your IRA?
- An unusual type of trust is becoming popular
- How proposed changes to Pennsylvania estate law could affect you
- Dozens arrested in nationwide Medicare fraud bust
- Will Pennyslvania lawmakers divert Medicaid stimulus money?
- Financial elder abuse cases on the rise as economy continues to struggle
- Will families lose their homes to reimburse Medicaid costs?
- Attorneys must untangle Pop King’s complicated estate
- Will revised estate tax laws pay for health care reform?
- The future of the estate tax is becoming clearer
- Congress considering changes to the estate tax laws
- Discrepancy in POW benefits
- Many special needs children lack plans for lifetime of care
- Are you at risk of dying intestate?
- Seniors warned to be wary of living-trust scams
- Debt collectors target the dearly departed
- Estate tax isn’t going anywhere
- Importance of Special Needs Trusts Highlighted by Non-Profit
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- Medicaid
- 7 Key Tests To Qualify For Medicaid
- Planning for Medicaid: Guide To What You Can and Cannot Keep
- Paying the Nursing Home: A Married Couple's Concerns, and What To Expect in the Medicaid Planning Process
- Home care is growing as a result of the increasing incidence of Alzheimer’s and other dementias, and is the world’s largest provider of non-medical in-home care and companionship services for seniors.
- "Why a 30-Minute Consultation? Do I Really Need One?"
- Are There Still Ways To Save the House? Transferring Property the Right Way ...
- Why Attend Our Seminar On Medicaid, Long Term Care, Vet Benefits and Estate Planning
- Living Trusts
- The Three Advantages to the Revocable Living Trust
- Understanding Financial and Legal Planning Techniques: Management of a Family Business or Real Estate With a Trust
- What is the difference between a will and a trust?
- Lessons On Probate and the Benefit of a Trust From Michael Jackson's Estate Distribution
- Myths about Revocable Living Trusts, Lawyers and Estate Planning. You want the best Elder Law Attorney and Estate Planning Attorney on your side. Call us for a FREE consultation at (800) 879 0984
- Is your living trust complete?
- Living Trust Overview
- The Differences between a Revocable and Irrevocable Living Trust
- Estate Administration and Probate
- What Determines the Necessity For Probate?
- What happens in Estate matters when an individual becomes incompetent?
- When Pennsylvania Estate Recovery Can Take Place By Law
- Joint Bank Accounts - Risks and Benefits
- Guidelines for Gifts and Joint Accounts
- Intestacy Laws Of Pa: Dangers of Not Having a Current Living Will
- Drafting Wills That Protect Clients' Interests: Every situation is different, which is why we select vehicles that meets each client's needs
- Long Term Care Insurance Details - Legally Bonded Caregiving. Contact us for a FREE consultation for long-term care planning.
- Philip K. Dick’s estate accuses Google of infringement
- 20 Questions to Find Best Home Health Care Agency
- With increasing interest in reverse mortgages as a potential source for retirement income, we want to help consumers make informed decisions regarding the use of home equity to help fund one’s retirement.
- Don't rely on Estate Planning advice from someone you can't trust, or from loved ones who may not know the full scope of the law and financial planning. Order one of our books located below, or call us for a FREE consultation to sit down and discuss all your options with an experienced, legal professional.
- Don't rely on Estate Planning advice from someone you can't trust, or from loved ones who may not know the full scope of the law and financial planning. Order one of our books located below, or call us for a FREE consultation to sit down and discuss all your options with an experienced, legal professional.
- Don't rely on Estate Planning advice from someone you can't trust, or from loved ones who may not know the full scope of the law and financial planning. Order one of our books located below, or call us for a FREE consultation to sit down and discuss all your options with an experienced, legal professional.
- What To Do When A Loved One Dies
- The Number One Enemy of Proper Estate Planning
- Confused by all the recent Pennsylvania law changes regarding Elder Law? Shields and Boris Law Firm have accredited, experienced legal and financial professionals to answer all your questions, including the importance of putting in place a power of attorney. You want the best attorney advising you, someone you can trust. Call us and get the peace of mind you were searching for.
- Death and debts: what survivors can expect
- Three ways to keep your estate out of probate
- Estate administration and online accounts: logins, passwords, and big headaches
- YOU’VE BEEN NAMED EXECUTOR…NOW WHAT?
- Three Reasons to Focus on Estate Planning
- Confused about the federal estate tax? You’re not alone
- Do you keep your estate plan and beneficiary list up to date?
- Asset Protection
- 10 Reasons to Consider Long-Term Care Insurance
- Solve Eligibility Problems Using the Personal Care Contract
- What Can Seniors and Their Families To Legally Protect Themselves In These Dire Times?
- Gift tax annual exclusion to remain unchanged in 2010. Contact us to see how this factors into your estate plan
- Gift tax annual exclusion to remain unchanged in 2010. Contact us to see how this factors into your estate plan
- This section of the site is designed to provide you with information about your Medicare eligibility and enrollment.
- Choosing whether a Roth IRA is best for you takes a discussion with a qualified financial advisor. Contact us at (800) 879-0984 to find out your best options for estate planning
- A look at the specific flaws in the leverage as an asset protection mechanism theory. Contact us at 1 800 879 0984 for more information, or a FREE consultation.
- Long-Term Care Insurance Health Qualifications - Are You Even Insurable?
- Regardless of the amount, any gift that is made is a transfer and is subject to a look-back period of five-years for Medicaid purposes. Call us today for a FREE consultation and find out the best legal and financial plans for your money.
- When it comes to making the right legal and financial decisions pertaining to long-term care, you want the best Elder Law attorney on your side! Shields and Boris Law Office provides experienced professionals who concentrate SOLELY on Elder Law - issues such as Medicaid, Medicare, Asset Protection, Veterans Benefits, Special Needs, Wills, Trusts, Estate Taxes, Probate, and how you can protect the money you've worked your entire life for so that it goes to loved ones, instead of the government, or nursing home. Call us today for a FREE consultation!
- Seniors Are Worried About the Possibility of Medicare Advantage Cuts
- New Medicaid Laws - Is Long Term Care Insurance the Answer? Is Long-Term Insurance best for you? Call us today to find out the best possible way to legally and financially prepare for long-term care planning.
- Asset Protection - What is the difference between Medicare and Medicaid?
- What is Medicaid and Why Should I Care?
- Are you prepared for the high costs of long-term care?
- What should you know about the PA Inheritance Tax?
- The importance of a durable financial power of attorney
- Estate Planning and Sole Property Ownership
- Estate Planning and Tenancy by the Entirety
- Estate Planning and Tenancy in Common
- Estate Planning and Joint Tenancy with Right of Survivorship
- General
- The Seven Stages of Alzheimer's Disease
- Three Types of Special Needs Trusts
- Future of the Estate Tax: What's Next for Estate Tax? Because Congress hasn't replaced law that expired in 2009, uncertainty is the rule.
- Alzheimer Care: 6 Advantages to Hiring Home Health Aides Through Agency
- Feel overwhelmed about a loved one's Long Term Care Planning? Start by ordering one of our many FREE reports found below, and contact us for a FREE Initial Consultation
- 21 Tips For Adapting a Home For Senior Living
- Martha Stewart shares her cargiving experience as well as a plea for the Health Care Bill to include support for the growing elderly population
- Contact our TeleDirect Service toll free at 1-800-762-0306 to make your reservation
- One-third of American adults provide care, new report finds
- Part 11 of 12 - Facts Every Special Needs Family Must Know About Estate Planning
- Part 12 of 12 - Facts Every Special Needs Family Must Know About Estate Planning
- Special Report- Part 10 of 12 Facts Every Special Needs Family Should Know About Estate Planning
- Part 9 of 12 Facts Every Special Needs Family Must Know About Estate Planning
- Part 7 of 12 - Facts Every Special Needs Family Should Know About Estate Planning
- Part 8 of 12 - FACTS EVERY SPECIAL NEEDS FAMILY MUST KNOW
- Part 6 of 12 Facts Every Special Needs Family Must Know About Estate Planning
- Special Report - Part 5 of 12 Facts Every Special Needs Family Must Know About Estate Planning
- Part 4 of 12 - Facts Every Special Needs Family Must Know About Estate Planning
- Part 3 of 12 Important Facts That Every Special Needs Family Must Know About Estate Planning
- Part 2 of 12 - Facts Every Special Needs Family Should Know About Estate Planning
- Important Report - 12 Facts Every Special Needs Family Must Know About Estate Planning
- What To Do Immediately When Someone Dies...
- Why married couples need to focus on debt planning for their estate
- The signs of financial elder abuse
- Updating your estate plan after a marriage, divorce, or remarriage
- Protect Yourself with a Durable Power of Attorney
- Safety issues for elders
- Could you be doing more to manage your estate and protect your assets?
- Five Estate Plan Basics
- Do you need help with heir planning and estate transfer?
- Secure your child’s future with a special needs trust
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- Estate Planning
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- Avoiding Probate
- Asset Protection Trust
Frequently Asked Questions
- Living Trusts
- Who Should Consider a Revocable Living Trust?
- What is "funding" my Living Trust?
- Do I lose control of my assets when I have a revocable living trust?
- Will a living trust make me ineligible for Medicaid?
- What is a living trust?
- Is it hard to re-title assets into the trust?
- Is a trust expensive?
- How long does it take to get a living trust?
- My financial person suggested a trust, but should I have an attorney do the trust?
- Are trusts new?
- Can a trust avoid or reduce taxes?
- Can I change my trust?
- Doesn’t a will help if I am incapacitated?
- Is it true that no one needs a revocable living trust?
- I heard that everyone needs a revocable living trust?
- Can any lawyer can write a trust, a will, power of attorney or living will?
- Can a financial planner can set up a revocable living trust for you?
- What are the benefits of a living trust?
- Can you leave assets for the benefit of a beneficiary who has special needs or receives governmental benefits?
- Estate Administration and Probate
- When Can Estate Recovery Take Place By Law?
- Do witnesses have to actually witness the signing?
- What is a reasonable attorney fee for probating an Estate?
- When we find out that a loved one is entering towards the end of life, what needs to be determined first?
- What does it mean to inventory property during probate?
- What is considered an estate?
- What is probate property?
- My father died and I don’t communicate with my stepmother. Do I still have a right to see his will?
- Do I need to make any changes to my estate plan if I move to Pennsylvania from another state or away from Pennsylvania?
- What is probate?
- What is so bad about probate?
- Do I lose control of my assets when I have a revocable living trust?
- Who has control if I pass away?
- Does the lawyer who writes the will has to probate the estate?
- Asset Protection
- What is Asset Protection?
- What Is Long Term Care?
- What are examples of services that can be included in a "Personal Care Contract"?
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What are the most commonly used approaches to managing and protecting assets through legal and financial asset protection?
How is Estate Planning Affected by Incompetency?- If my loved one is on Medicaid, won't they get substandard care?
- I have two children. Can they be co-agents on my durable power of attorney?
- Can my ailing husband just transfer all of his assets to me so he’ll be eligible for Medicaid?
- Is it illegal to do Medicaid and asset protection planning?
- Why haven’t I heard about this planning before?
- The caseworker/nursing home intake person / friend / neighbor / beautician / other advisor has told me that the Medicaid rules are much different than what you are saying?
- General
- Who Should Consider a Trust?
If I have to apply for medical assistance benefits to pay for nursing home care WILL I LOSE MY HOME?
- Where can I find a resource for an Eldercare Provider in the Pennsylvania?
- What is ElderCare and Veteran Care USA?
- What is the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys?
- What is a living will?
- When should I review my estate plan?
- Is there a difference between a special needs trust and a supplemental needs trust?
- Do all lawyers have basically the same training?
- Does the bar association determines whether a lawyer can advertise that he or she is an “Elder Law Attorney” or “Estate Planner”?
- Do all lawyers carry legal malpractice insurance?
- If a lawyer advertises that he or she does estate planning, does that the lawyer has experience with those types of cases?
- How do you calculate your fees?
- From our first phone call, how long will it take you to tell us if you are able to help us?
- Is the initial telephone call and first appointment free?
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- A Guide To Alzheimer's Care
- A Consumers Guide to Estate Planning
- Nuts and Bolts Guide to VA Benefits
- A Consumers Guide to Medicaid Planning and Division of Assets
- What To Do When A Loved One Dies
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Medicaid
Living Trusts
- Who Should Consider a Revocable Living Trust?
- What is "funding" my Living Trust?
- Do I lose control of my assets when I have a revocable living trust?
Estate Administration and Probate
- When Can Estate Recovery Take Place By Law?
- Do witnesses have to actually witness the signing?
- What is a reasonable attorney fee for probating an Estate?
Asset Protection
- What is Asset Protection?
- What Is Long Term Care?
- What are examples of services that can be included in a "Personal Care Contract"?