17 Jun 2013

Changing the Standard of Medicare Coverage

Legal News for Individuals, Probate, Estate Planning and Elder Law

Changing the Standard of Medicare Coverage Medicare covers very little of a person’s long-term care costs. Generally, when a person stays three nights in a hospital and is then transferred to a rehabilitation facility within 30 days of a hospital release, Medicare may cover in full...

Estate and Gift Tax Changes Enacted

Jeff Senney

Probate, Estate Planning and Elder Law, Senney Says by Jeff Senney

On January 1, 2013, Congress passed the Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012. The President quickly signed it into law. Among other things, the 2012 Act made permanent some of the estate, gift and generation-skipping transfer tax provisions which had been set to expire after 2012. ...

Is it possible to Amend an Irrevocable Trust?

Joe Mattera

Legal News for Individuals, News, Probate, Estate Planning and Elder Law

It is important that everyone 18 years of age and older have an estate plan. It is just as important that the estate plan be periodically updated to make sure the plan meets your current desires and complies with current law. Most common estate plan documents;...