HearthThe legal side of caring for a parent, written so a family can actually use it.
A complete, downloadable PDF guide: the documents to sign, the order to sign them in, the Medicaid look back math, how the home and the healthy spouse are protected, and how to appeal a denial. Yours to keep, print and share with your siblings.
Families pay an elder law attorney $9,000 to $15,000 for this same guidance.
That is the typical range for a full elder law planning engagement: document drafting, Medicaid planning and asset protection review. This guide gives you the same map for a fraction of it, so you walk into any attorney or agency already knowing what to ask.
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The complete planning guide, written for families anywhere in the United States. Every document, deadline and worksheet, with the federal rules that apply in every state.
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Everything in the general edition, rewritten around Connecticut law: the state Medicaid program and waivers, filing offices, spousal protection figures, appeal deadlines and the local agencies to call.
Sign in to buy, $99.99What is inside
- Power of attorney. Health care proxy. Living will. What each one does, and when to sign it.
- The five year Medicaid look back. What it counts, month by month. The transfers that trigger a penalty.
- Protecting the house. Protecting the healthy spouse's income.
- Guardianship and conservatorship. When you need it. How to avoid it.
- Nursing home admission paperwork. The clauses to strike before you sign.
- Appeals. Denials, discharge notices, level of care decisions. All the deadlines.
- A document checklist. Worksheets. Scripts for the family meeting.