Short Term Care

A married couple owns a homestead located out-of-state held in a trust. They move to Texas to be closer to their children since the wife needs long-term care. They have no long-term care insurance, and their liquid assets and income are insufficient to pay for...

Many have the misconception that only the wealthy need or can use trusts for estate planning. In this case, an elderly couple has two children – one of the children has a drug problem and the other is a spendthrift and has creditor issues. The...

As fewer companies offer long-term care insurance since people are living longer (and insurance companies miscalculated increased life expectancy) and fewer policyholders dropped their policies, a new alternative has been developed for those who have poorer health – short-term care insurance. The trend in recent...

Husband and wife (2nd marriage for each and both having children of prior marriage) purchase real estate together, but they fail to deed it into their joint revocable trust that they signed twenty years ago. Since the property wasn’t deeded into the trust, there was need...

Usually the biggest asset that most Americans have is either a home or their retirement accounts or both. Americans are living longer than ever before, but most have inadequate long-term care insurance coverage. Most mistakenly think that Medicare will take care of them if they...

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