Estate Planning
Looking towards the future.
Estate Planning
The Power of Planning
What is Estate Planning? Estate Planning is controlling your property while you are alive and well; planning in case you become mentally disabled; and giving what you have, to whom you want, when you want, and the way you want.
Estate Planning is Not Just for the Wealthy. It’s for everyone and it’s for right now. If you haven’t started planning or if you feel unsure about your current plan, you aren’t alone. With so many tax issues, healthcare options, family concerns, and asset management details to worry about, making an estate plan can become complicated. With so many areas in your life at risk, it’s time to protect yourself.
Making it Simple. At the Law Offices of Jeffrey A. Asher, PC, we focus on your concerns, your personal plans, and your long- and short-term goals. Working together, we will come up with the right plan to help protect what’s important to you.
Elder Law
Providing dignity and respect.
Elder Law
Protecting the Greatest Generation
Helping Older Loved Ones. People are living longer. The number of persons aged 65 and over is expected to double by the year 2030 and the fastest-growing segment of the population consists of people who are 85 and older. Many experts are concerned that “aging issues” have reached a critical point now that the “baby boom” generation has reached the age of retirement.
For some, aging will bring continued health, enjoyable retirement, and financial freedom. For others, aging will bring mental disability, terminal illness, and poverty. For all, aging will bring an increased complexity to life.
Elder Law focuses on issues of long-term health care needs, financial management issues, housing needs, public benefit eligibility problems, insurance needs, quality of life concerns, personal life preferences, and health care decision-making, to meet the goals and objectives of the older client. Elder law is different from traditional estate planning in that more emphasis is placed on planning for the contingencies of an extended lifetime.
How to Pay for Long-Term Care?
As you get older, your chance of needing some form of long-term care increases. Managing that care can be difficult. Unless you have the right tools.
Elder Law and Long-Term Care Planning will help qualify you or your loved ones for Medicaid and other government benefits.
The firm’s Elder Law Department works with its clients in connection with their long-term healthcare decisions, disability protections, and need for advanced medical directives.
Probate
Helping you navigate the process.
Probate and Estate Administration
The guidance you need
When a person passes away, his or her loved ones file the deceased person’s Will with the Court asking that the Will be “admitted to probate”. The decedent’s Will is “probated” – and the Executor is appointed – when this proceeding is complete.
Before admitting a Will to probate, the Judge must inquire into the particulars of the Will and be satisfied with the validity and genuineness of the Will and its execution. If the Judge is satisfied that the Will was executed properly, and there were no objections to the probate the Will (i.e., objections to the validity of the Will), the Judge then “admits the Will to probate” and issues its decree granting probate. It is based on the decree granting probate that the Letters Testamentary are issued.
Letters Testamentary, or the Certificate of Letters Testamentary, is the evidence given to the Executor that the Will was admitted to probate and the Executor qualified to as act as Executor and was duly appointed Executor by the Court.
When a decedent dies without a valid Will, he or she is said to have died “intestate”. Accordingly, the administration of a decedent’s estate where the decedent died without a Will is called an “intestate administration”.
When the Judge is satisfied that the administration proceeding is complete, and there was no production of a valid Will, the Judge will issue Letters of Administration to the Administrator of the decedent’s estate. The Letters of Administration, or the Certificate of Letters of Administration, is the evidence given to the Administrator that he or she is qualified to act on behalf of the estate.
Free Assessment. If you would like to discuss your estate or a loved one’s estate, call us at (877) 207-6803 for your ABSOLUTELY FREE consultation.
Estate & Trust Litigation
Fighting for your best interests.
Estate & Trust Litigation
Building a case for your succession.
When Families Fight Over the Estate. Some estates will just have conflict after a loved one dies – it’s as simple as that. The key is identifying and understanding the conflict as early as possible and either preparing for the fight or doing what we can to resolve it.
Medicaid Planning
Protect What’s Yours.
Long-term care planning will help you or your loved one qualify for Medicaid and other government benefits.
You must protect what’s yours. Even if you do not think you or your loved one can qualify for Medicaid, call us. We will give you an ABSOLUTELY FREE assessment.
Long-Term Care Planning
Guidance when you need it most
As parents get older, you want to make sure not only that they are taking care of themselves, but also that a legal plan is in place to ensure that healthcare and financial decision-makers are appointed to act when necessary. Moreover, you want to make sure that any costs for long-term care are affordable and, if possible, paid for by government programs. Long-Term Care Planning is making sure that your aging relatives maintain their independence, while at the same time setting forth a plan of action in the event that they cannot act on their own any longer.
Managing long-term care can be extremely expensive, and Medicare, long-term care insurance, and other health insurance programs do not always cover the total cost of long-term care services. Medicaid does … if you qualify. Long-term care planning will help you qualify for Medicaid and other government benefits.
Special Needs
Planning
Compassionate Service.
Special Needs Planning
We’re here for you every step of the way
Special Needs Planning helps those with severe, chronic, or persistent disabilities to get the benefits or assistance that they need. We do this through Supplemental Security Income (SSI), Social Security Disability, Medicare, Medicaid, vocational rehabilitation, subsidized housing, and other benefits based upon the client’s need. As best as possible, we plan so that these benefits merely supplement the special needs beneficiary’s other resources without impairing, diminishing, or disqualifying the beneficiary from the benefits he or she may otherwise be eligible or which he or she may be receiving.
Special Needs Planning is planning through financial management, the creation of trusts and trust management plans, and/or the creation of health care and financial decision making authoriza
