As time passes, a family’s health circumstances can change, sometimes slowly, with degenerative illnesses such as Alzheimer’s or Parkinson’s, but often very suddenly. We can’t count the times that a client has called us to let us know their spouse or their parent, who...
DECIDING TO WAIT AND SEE IS A BIG MISTAKESome people have suggested waiting to see how Congress deals with the estate tax before doing any planning, but waiting to plan is a big mistake! Whether or not your estate is large enough to be concerned with a Massachusetts...
Are you ready to retire? At the Estate Planning and Asset Protection Law Center of Dennis Sullivan & Associates, we help individuals and families with advanced tax, retirement and estate planning to protect their life savings, reduce estate taxes and avoid...
What happens if your parent dies after a long nursing home stay, for which Medicaid paid benefits? This is the question that was posed recently by a reader to The Commercial Appeal: My friend’s mother died. She recently received a letter from the state...
A Family Lifetime Protection Program workshop was held on July 7, 2010 at the Estate Planning Conference Center, Wellesley, MA, featuring expert speakers on: Coping and Living with Alzheimer’s Home Safety for Seniors How to Find and Pay For In-Home Care The...
Under certain circumstances you can get paid for caring for your elderly parents, but you need to keep in mind the rules or it could end up costing your parents much more in the long term. Caring for elderly parents can become a family affair. Oftentimes family...
