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Alpena MI - Michigan Elder Law Attorney lawyer -- Karen J. Bennett, Wenzel, Bennett & Harris, PC, Alpena County      Click to request assistance
Alpena MI - Michigan Medicaid planning advice -- Keith Wallace, Isackson, Wallace & Pfeifer, PC, Alpena County      Click to request assistance
Alpena MI - Michigan save assets from Medicare if -- Lisa L. Harris, Wenzel, Bennett & Harris, PC, Alpena County      Click to request assistance
Ann Arbor MI - Michigan Medicaid spend down and recovery -- J. Michael Meade, Attorney at Law, Washtenaw County      Click to request assistance
Ann Arbor MI - Michigan Elder Law estate planning -- Elizabeth Wetzel Hurwitz, Hurwitz Law Offices PLLC, Washtenaw County      Click to request assistance
Ann Arbor MI - Michigan trusts wills, living wills, power of attorney, probate -- Terrence A. Bertram, Legacy Law Center, Washtenaw County      Click to request assistance
Ann Arbor MI - Michigan Elder Law Attorney lawyer -- Jane A. Bassett, Bassett & Associates, PLLC, Washtenaw County      Click to request assistance
Auburn Hills MI - Michigan Medicaid planning advice -- Andrew Byers, Byers & Goulding, PLC, Oakland County      Click to request assistance
Auburn Hills MI - Michigan save assets from Medicare if -- Dustin S. Foster, The Thomas M. Cooley Law School, Oakland County      Click to request assistance
Big Rapids MI - Michigan Medicaid spend down and recovery -- Peter A. Jordan, Jordan Balkema Elder Law Center, PLLC, Mecosta County      Click to request assistance
Big Rapids MI - Michigan Elder Law estate planning -- Richard T. Balkema , Jordan Balkema Elder Law Center, PLLC, Mecosta County      Click to request assistance
Bingham Farms MI - Michigan trusts wills, living wills, power of attorney, probate -- Dennis C. Modzelewski, Gaggos Law Firm, PC, Oakland County      Click to request assistance
Bingham Farms MI - Michigan Elder Law Attorney lawyer -- Lauren M. Underwood, Lauren M. Underwood, PC, Oakland County      Click to request assistance
Birmingham MI - Michigan Medicaid planning advice -- Robert B. Labe, Williams, Williams, Rattner & Plunkett, Oakland County      Click to request assistance
Bloomfield Hills MI - Michigan save assets from Medicare if -- Christopher J. Berry, Witzke Berry PLLC, Oakland County      Click to request assistance
Bloomfield Hills MI - Michigan Medicaid spend down and recovery -- Mary T. Schmitt Smith, CELA, Theresa Law Center, PC, Oakland County      Click to request assistance
Bloomfield Hills MI - Michigan Elder Law estate planning -- Steven H. Malach, Center for Estate Planning, Oakland County      Click to request assistance
Brighton MI - Michigan trusts wills, living wills, power of attorney, probate -- Joseph David O'Brien, Joseph D. O'Brien, PLLC, Livingston County      Click to request assistance
Brighton MI - Michigan Elder Law Attorney lawyer -- Nancy C. Nawrocki, Nawrocki Center for Elder & Family Law, Livingston County      Click to request assistance
Caro MI - Michigan Medicaid planning advice -- Renee J. Wood, Renee J. Wood, PLLC, Tuscola County      Click to request assistance
Cheboygan MI - Michigan save assets from Medicare if -- Sharon R. Stack, Attorney at Law, Cheboygan County      Click to request assistance
Chelsea MI - Michigan Medicaid spend down and recovery -- John A. McDermott, Attorney at Law, Washtenaw County      Click to request assistance
Crystal Falls MI - Michigan Elder Law estate planning -- John L. Harrison, Attorney at Law, Iron County      Click to request assistance
Dearborn MI - Michigan trusts wills, living wills, power of attorney, probate -- John B. Payne, Garrison LawHouse, PC, Wayne County      Click to request assistance
East Lansing MI - Michigan Elder Law Attorney lawyer -- John E. Bos, Chalgian & Tripp Law Offices, PLLC, Ingham County      Click to request assistance
East Lansing MI - Michigan Medicaid planning advice -- Rosemary Howley Buhl, Chalgian & Tripp Law Offices, PLLC, Ingham County      Click to request assistance
East Lansing MI - Michigan save assets from Medicare if -- Douglas G. Chalgian, CELA, Chalgian & Tripp Law Offices, PLLC, Ingham County      Click to request assistance
East Lansing MI - Michigan Medicaid spend down and recovery -- David L. Shaltz, Chalgian & Tripp Law Offices PLLC, Ingham County      Click to request assistance
Farmington Hills MI - Michigan Elder Law estate planning -- Arthur L. Malisow, CELA, Mall Malisow & Cooney, PC, Oakland County      Click to request assistance
Farmington Hills MI - Michigan trusts wills, living wills, power of attorney, probate -- Harley D. Manela, Mall Malisow & Cooney, PC, Oakland County      Click to request assistance
Farmington Hills MI - Michigan Elder Law Attorney lawyer -- James P. Lampertius, Lampertius & Associates, PLC, Oakland County      Click to request assistance
Farmington Hills MI - Michigan Medicaid planning advice -- Kathryn Gilson Sussman, , Oakland County      Click to request assistance
Farmington Hills MI - Michigan save assets from Medicare if -- Norman E. Richards, Foster, Swift, Collins, et al., Oakland County      Click to request assistance
Farmington Hills MI - Michigan Medicaid spend down and recovery -- Patricia E. Kefalas Dudek, Patricia E. Kefalas Dudek & Associates, Oakland County      Click to request assistance
Farmington Hills MI - Michigan Elder Law estate planning -- Stephen M. Feldman, Finkel, Whitefield, Selik, Oakland County      Click to request assistance
Farmington Hills MI - Michigan trusts wills, living wills, power of attorney, probate -- Sanford J. Mall, CELA, Mall Malisow & Cooney, PC, Oakland County      Click to request assistance
Farmington Hills MI - Michigan Elder Law Attorney lawyer -- , Accettura & Hurwitz, Oakland County      Click to request assistance
Flint MI - Michigan Medicaid planning advice -- Michael J. Kotarski, Law Office of Michael J. Kotarski, Genesee County      Click to request assistance
Flint MI - Michigan save assets from Medicare if -- Michael E. Thomas, Attorney at Law, Genesee County      Click to request assistance
Frankenmuth MI - Michigan Medicaid spend down and recovery -- Sharon A. Burgess, Smith Bovill, PC, Saginaw County      Click to request assistance
Grand Blanc MI - Michigan Elder Law estate planning -- Brett A. Howell, CELA, The Elder and Estate Planning Law Firm, PLLC, Genesee County      Click to request assistance
Grand Blanc MI - Michigan trusts wills, living wills, power of attorney, probate -- Robert D. Mannor, Mannor Law Office, P.C., Genesee County      Click to request assistance
Grand Haven MI - Michigan Elder Law Attorney lawyer -- Thomas R. Reinsma, Scholten & Fant, Ottawa County      Click to request assistance
Grand Ledge MI - Michigan Medicaid planning advice -- William L. Ferrigan, Attorney at Law, Eaton County      Click to request assistance
Grand Rapids MI - Michigan save assets from Medicare if -- William E. Westerbeke, Westerbeke Law Firm, PLLC, Kent County      Click to request assistance
Grand Rapids MI - Michigan Medicaid spend down and recovery -- Glen V. Borre, Miller Johnson, Kent County      Click to request assistance
Grand Rapids MI - Michigan Elder Law estate planning -- Brian J. Plachta, Plachta, Murphy & Associates, P.C., Kent County      Click to request assistance
Grand Rapids MI - Michigan trusts wills, living wills, power of attorney, probate -- David L. Carrier, David L. Carrier, P.C., Kent County      Click to request assistance
Grand Rapids MI - Michigan Elder Law Attorney lawyer -- Caroline Margaret Dellenbusch, Caroline Dellenbusch, PLC, Kent County      Click to request assistance
Grand Rapids MI - Michigan Medicaid planning advice -- Lauretta K. Murphy, Miller Johnson, Kent County      Click to request assistance
Grand Rapids MI - Michigan save assets from Medicare if -- Shawn Weera, Shawn Weera, PLLC, Kent County      Click to request assistance
Grand Rapids MI - Michigan Medicaid spend down and recovery -- Linsey Anne Aten , Varnum, Riddering, Schmidt & Howlett LLP, Kent County      Click to request assistance
Grosse Pointe Woods MI - Michigan Elder Law estate planning -- Robert H. Fortunate, Law Offices of Robert H. Fortunate, Wayne County      Click to request assistance
Highland MI - Michigan trusts wills, living wills, power of attorney, probate -- J. Michael Hickox, Attorney at Law, Oakland County      Click to request assistance
Ishpeming MI - Michigan trusts wills, living wills, power of attorney, probate -- James B. Steward, CELA, Steward & Sheridan, PLC, Marquette County      Click to request assistance
Jackson MI - Michigan Elder Law Attorney lawyer -- Amy R. Tripp, Chalgian & Tripp Law Offices, PLLC, Jackson County      Click to request assistance
Kalamazoo MI - Michigan Medicaid planning advice -- Catherine C. Metzler, Miller, Johnson, et. al., Kalamazoo County      Click to request assistance
Kalamazoo MI - Michigan save assets from Medicare if -- Michael J. Willis, Willis & Willis, PLC, Kalamazoo County      Click to request assistance
Lansing MI - Michigan Medicaid spend down and recovery -- Michelyn E. Pasteur, Bernick, Omer, Radner & Ouellette, P.C., Ingham County      Click to request assistance
Marquette MI - Michigan Elder Law estate planning -- Suzanne C. Larsen, Kendricks, Bordeau, Adamini,, Marquette County      Click to request assistance
Marquette MI - Michigan trusts wills, living wills, power of attorney, probate -- Susan G. Wideman, The Wideman Law Center, P.C., Marquette County      Click to request assistance
Marquette MI - Michigan Elder Law Attorney lawyer -- John L. Arenz , The Wideman Law Center, P.C., Marquette County      Click to request assistance
Marquette MI - Michigan Medicaid planning advice -- , Elder Law Firm of Anderson Associates, PC, Marquette County      Click to request assistance
Midland MI - Michigan save assets from Medicare if -- Joseph D. Weiler, Jr., Currie Kendall PLC, Midland County      Click to request assistance
Midland MI - Michigan Medicaid spend down and recovery -- Wendy D. Kanar, Cline, Close, Dyer, PLC, Midland County      Click to request assistance
Mount Clemens MI - Michigan Elder Law estate planning -- Todd Schmitz, The Elder & Disability Law Firm, PLLC, Macomb County      Click to request assistance
Muskegon MI - Michigan trusts wills, living wills, power of attorney, probate -- David E. Waterstradt, Warner Norcross & Judd LLP, Muskegon County      Click to request assistance
Muskegon MI - Michigan Elder Law Attorney lawyer -- Linda S. Kaare, Parmenter O'Toole Law Offices, Muskegon County      Click to request assistance
Okemos MI - Michigan Medicaid planning advice -- Louis U.G. Crenshaw, Louis U.G. Crenshaw & Associates, PC, Ingham County      Click to request assistance
Otsego MI - Michigan save assets from Medicare if -- Karen A. McCarty, McCarty Law Offices, PLC, Allegan County      Click to request assistance
Paw Paw MI - Michigan Medicaid spend down and recovery -- Harold Schuitmaker, Schuitmaker, Cooper, et. al., Van Buren County      Click to request assistance
Petoskey MI - Michigan Elder Law estate planning -- John P. Ternes, Attorney at Law, Emmet County      Click to request assistance
Plymouth MI - Michigan trusts wills, living wills, power of attorney, probate -- Henry D. Kopicko, Henry D. Kopicko, PLC, Wayne County      Click to request assistance
Port Huron MI - Michigan Elder Law Attorney lawyer -- Dennis O. Clyne, Hill Devendorf, PC, St. Clair County      Click to request assistance
Rochester MI - Michigan Medicaid planning advice -- J. Douglas Otlewski, Otlewski & Maloney, P.C., Oakland County      Click to request assistance
Rogers City MI - Michigan save assets from Medicare if -- Judy A. McFalda, McFalda Law Office, PLC, Presque Isle County      Click to request assistance
Royal Oak MI - Michigan Medicaid spend down and recovery -- Sue E. Fabian, Attorney At Law, Oakland County      Click to request assistance
Saginaw MI - Michigan Elder Law estate planning -- Darrell R. Zolton, Zolton Law Offices, Saginaw County      Click to request assistance
Saginaw MI - Michigan trusts wills, living wills, power of attorney, probate -- Jerome P. Reif, Law Office of Jerry Reif, Saginaw County      Click to request assistance
Saginaw MI - Michigan Elder Law Attorney lawyer -- Norman Harrison, CELA, Law Office of Norman S. Harrison, Saginaw County      Click to request assistance
Saint Clair MI - Michigan Medicaid planning advice -- James Craig Bowser, Bowser & Associates, PLC, St. Clair County      Click to request assistance
Saint Clair Shores MI - Michigan save assets from Medicare if -- Patrick J. Bond, Bond Estate Planning & Elder Law, PC, Macomb County      Click to request assistance
Saint Clair Shores MI - Michigan Medicaid spend down and recovery -- Diane M. Carpentier, Attorney and Counselor at Law, Macomb County      Click to request assistance
Saint Clair Shores MI - Michigan Elder Law estate planning -- Robert R. Lubera, Wakefield, Sutherland & Lubera, PLC, Macomb County      Click to request assistance
Saint Joseph MI - Michigan trusts wills, living wills, power of attorney, probate -- Brian G. Holt, Passaro & Kahne Law Office, PLLC, Berrien County      Click to request assistance
Saint Joseph MI - Michigan Medicaid spend down and recovery -- Jonathan B. Sauer, Sauer & Sauer, PLC, Berrien County      Click to request assistance
Shelby Township MI - Michigan Elder Law estate planning -- Alan F. Polack, Alan F. Polack, PC, Macomb County      Click to request assistance
Shelby Township MI - Michigan trusts wills, living wills, power of attorney, probate -- Christopher B. Kroll, Christopher B. Kroll, PC, Macomb County      Click to request assistance
Shelby Township MI - Michigan Elder Law Attorney lawyer -- Douglas C. Wozniak, Law Office of Douglas C. Wozniak, PLC, Macomb County      Click to request assistance
Shelby Township MI - Michigan Medicaid planning advice -- Michele P. Fuller, Fuller & Stubbs, PLLC, Macomb County      Click to request assistance
Southfield MI - Michigan save assets from Medicare if -- Elizabeth Luckenbach Brown, Jaffe, Raitt, Heuer & Weiss, PC, Oakland County      Click to request assistance
Southfield MI - Michigan Medicaid spend down and recovery -- James Schuster, CELA , Attorney at Law, Oakland County      Click to request assistance
Southfield MI - Michigan Elder Law estate planning -- Shirley A. Kaigler, Jaffe, Raitt, Heuer & Weiss, P.C., Oakland County      Click to request assistance
Southgate MI - Michigan trusts wills, living wills, power of attorney, probate -- Kevin M. Gilhool, Law Office of Kevin M. Gilhool, Wayne County      Click to request assistance
Sterling Heights MI - Michigan Elder Law Attorney lawyer -- Jeffrey J. Michalowski, Serafini Michalowski Derkacz & Assoc. PC, Macomb County      Click to request assistance
Sterling Heights MI - Michigan Medicaid planning advice -- Matthew L. Joswick, Law Offices of Matthew L. Joswick, Macomb County      Click to request assistance
Three Oaks MI - Michigan save assets from Medicare if -- Charles A. Hilmer, Attorney at Law, Berrien County      Click to request assistance
Traverse City MI - Michigan Medicaid spend down and recovery -- John K. Gray, Elder Law Clinic, Grand Traverse County      Click to request assistance
Traverse City MI - Michigan Elder Law estate planning -- Diane Kuhn Huff, CELA, Scott & Huff, PC, Grand Traverse County      Click to request assistance
Traverse City MI - Michigan trusts wills, living wills, power of attorney, probate -- Gregory R. Kish, Smith Haughey Rice & Roegge, Grand Traverse County      Click to request assistance
Traverse City MI - Michigan Elder Law Attorney lawyer -- James R. Modrall III, CELA, Brandt Fisher, et. al., Grand Traverse County      Click to request assistance
Traverse City MI - Michigan Medicaid planning advice -- John J. Rizzo, Rizzo & Associates, PLC, Grand Traverse County      Click to request assistance
Troy MI - Michigan save assets from Medicare if -- Brenna Doyle Mansfield, Giarmarco, Mullins, & Horton, P.C., Oakland County      Click to request assistance
Troy MI - Michigan Medicaid spend down and recovery -- Danielle B. Mayoras, Barron, Rosenberg, Mayoras & Mayoras, P.C., Oakland County      Click to request assistance
Troy MI - Michigan Elder Law estate planning -- Brian R. Jenney, Miller, Canfield, Paddock & Stone, P.L.C., Oakland County      Click to request assistance
Troy MI - Michigan trusts wills, living wills, power of attorney, probate -- Michael J. Fraleigh, Fraleigh Law Firm, Oakland County      Click to request assistance
Troy MI - Michigan Elder Law Attorney lawyer -- Don L. Rosenberg, Barron, Rosenberg, Mayoras & Mayoras, P.C., Oakland County      Click to request assistance
Troy MI - Michigan Medicaid planning advice -- Thomas V. Trainer, Kemp Klein Law Firm, Oakland County      Click to request assistance
Washington MI - Michigan save assets from Medicare if -- Gerard J. Garno, Heritage Elder Law & Planning, Macomb County      Click to request assistance

 

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About Elder Law and Medicaid Consultations

Elder Law Advice
Medicaid Advice (Medicaid Planning)

Elder Law Advice

An attorney specializing in elder law helps older people and their families or caregivers with elder-specific legal issues, estate planning and long term care planning.

Many of these attorneys spent a great deal of their time helping individuals or couples qualify for Medicaid and preserve assets from Medicaid spend down and recovery. Property ownership, special transfer allowances, application for hardship review, Miller trusts and family-beneficial use of spend down monies are areas where their services can protect family members and healthy spouses from undue hardship. Although they typically can't charge to fill out a Medicaid application, elder lawyers, through advice and guidance, can often accelerate the approval process saving the family a great deal of money. This often more than compensates for their fee.

On the other hand many elder attorneys do not just limit their practice to Medicaid planning but help elders and their families with all types of issues. Below is a partial list of what an elder or Elder Law attorney might do:

  • Preservation or transfer of assets seeking to avoid spousal impoverishment when a spouse enters a nursing home
  • Medicaid qualification and application and Medicaid planning strategies
  • Medicare claims and appeals
  • Social security and disability claims and appeals
  • Supplemental and long term health insurance issues
  • Disability planning, including use of durable powers of attorney, living trusts, "living wills," for financial management and health care decisions, and other means of delegating management and decision-making to another in case of incompetency or incapacity
  • Conservatorships and guardianships
  • Estate planning, including planning for the management of one's estate during life and its disposition on death through the use of trusts, wills and other planning documents
  • Probate
  • Administration and management of trusts and estates
  • Long term care placements in nursing home and life care communities
  • Nursing home issues including questions of patients' rights and nursing home quality
  • Elder abuse and fraud recovery cases
  • Housing issues, including discrimination and home equity conversions (reverse mortgage)
  • Age discrimination in employment
  • Retirement, including public and private retirement benefits, survivor benefits and pension benefits
  • Health law
  • Mental health law

Medicaid Advice (Medicaid Planning)

A person facing the prospect of long-term care with moderate income and assets may eventually have to rely on Medicaid to pay part or all of the cost of care. But many states rob a healthy spouse of a previously adequate income by allowing too little in protected resources and income. Likewise, children, relatives and friends are not recognized for the financial sacrifices they make in providing the early care before a recipient becomes bad enough to need Medicaid funded professional help.

Medicaid planning, using a professional Medicaid planning advisor or qualified elder law attorney, allows you to correct inequities in the system. Medicaid planning has gotten a bad name because some individuals, who would normally have too many assets to ever qualify for Medicaid, deliberately use it, many years in advance, to give away everything to their family so as to qualify for Medicaid. It is wrong to abuse the system in this way and to use taxpayer dollars to insure an inheritance for the family. And if that person is not anticipating immediate care, this strategy is just plain dumb.

Medicaid planning is no different from tax planning. In fact a Supreme Court decision condones honest methods of eliminating income taxes or estate taxes. Just like tax planning, Medicaid planning uses existing laws to structure legal strategies.

Tax planning and Medicaid planning both put an additional burden on taxpayers, but one is considered ethical and the other not.

We believe that all strategies have their place in the scheme of things. Medicaid planning fits certain circumstances usually where families are in a crisis mode trying to preserve a few assets such as a house or a savings plan. There is no attempt to take advantage of the taxpayers. Using other strategies for paying the cost of care is much better for a younger generation wanting a plan that will allow for home care, assisted living and a choice in care services.