Avoid Long-Term Care Planning Mistakes
1.) I am allowed to gift $19,000 to each of my children this year without filing a gift tax return under the IRS’s annual exclusion....
Medicaid Home Care Benefits in NY
There is a moment of pure release while traveling that does not exist in the regular world. It is the period of time after TSA screeners...
Protecting Your Child During College Years
I was reading something troubling the other day: For the first time in generations, chocolate chip ice cream is no longer a top 10...
Emergency Estate Planning During a Hospitalization
I was prepared to write a regular estate planning article tied into Independence Day with July Fourth and fireworks references – fitting...
From Bitcoin to Baseball Cards
“OK, Mr. Lewis, to recap, we have three investment accounts, the checking account, the Whole Life Insurance plan, your IRA and the home.”...
Medicaid Spend-Down Strategies
I was performing a little Medicaid research one day in the 2010s. On my computer screen was a copy of New York’s Medicaid Reference...
Intelligent Caregiving
Before James Bond embarked on a globetrotting mission to save the world from S.P.E.C.T.R.E., he stopped in to see Q, British Secret...
Endings
At age 90, Daniel Kahneman – maybe the most famous modern intellectual on the subject of decision making – decided to end his life....
Medicaid Warnings
Nursing home owners have had enough – and you should take notice. For decades, elder care attorneys and nursing home business offices...
Navigate Legal Gardens With Grace
Here is my well-worn phrase of the day: “It is not what you say, but how you say it.” Family conversations infused with humanity and...