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Arlington Heights IL - Illinois Elder Law Attorney lawyer -- Elder Law Ofc Of Steven Perlis & Assoc Pc, Cook County      Click to request assistance
Arlington Heights IL - Illinois Medicaid planning advice -- Law Office Of James C Siebert, Cook County      Click to request assistance
Aurora IL - Illinois Medicaid spend down and recovery -- Elder Law Center, Kane County      Click to request assistance
Aurora IL - Illinois Elder Law estate planning -- Law Elder Law, Dupage County      Click to request assistance
Aurora IL - Illinois Elder Law Attorney lawyer -- Kinnally Krentz Et.Al, Kane County      Click to request assistance
Aurora IL - Illinois Medicaid planning advice -- Elder Law Center, Kane County      Click to request assistance
Barrington IL - Illinois Medicaid spend down and recovery -- Bush & Heise, Lake County      Click to request assistance
Belleville IL - Illinois Elder Law estate planning -- Harter Larson & Dodd Llc, St. Clair County      Click to request assistance
Belleville IL - Illinois trusts wills, living wills, power of attorney, probate -- Kristi Vetri Attorney At Law, St. Clair County      Click to request assistance
Berwyn IL - Illinois save assets from Medicare if -- Law Office Of Enid Kempe Olsen, Cook County      Click to request assistance
Bloomingdale IL - Illinois Medicaid spend down and recovery -- Law Offices Of Leasa J Baugher Ltd, Dupage County      Click to request assistance
Carbondale IL - Illinois Elder Law Attorney lawyer -- Habiger & Associates Elder Law Office, Jackson County      Click to request assistance
Caseyville IL - Illinois Medicaid planning advice -- Michele Taylor Attorney At Law, St. Clair County      Click to request assistance
Centralia IL - Illinois save assets from Medicare if -- Lackey & Stevenson Pc, Marion County      Click to request assistance
Chicago IL - Illinois trusts wills, living wills, power of attorney, probate -- Przybylo Kubiatowski, Cook County      Click to request assistance
Chicago IL - Illinois Medicaid planning advice -- Epstein & Epstein, Cook County      Click to request assistance
Chicago IL - Illinois save assets from Medicare if -- Schoenberg Fisher Et Al, Cook County      Click to request assistance
Chicago IL - Illinois Elder Law estate planning -- Janna Dutton & Associates Pc, Cook County      Click to request assistance
Chicago IL - Illinois trusts wills, living wills, power of attorney, probate -- Jay L Dolgin Ltd, Cook County      Click to request assistance
Chicago IL - Illinois Elder Law Attorney lawyer -- Jerome S Lamet Ltd, Cook County      Click to request assistance
Chicago IL - Illinois Medicaid planning advice -- John Belconis Attorney At Law, Cook County      Click to request assistance
Chicago IL - Illinois save assets from Medicare if -- Monahan & Cohen, Cook County      Click to request assistance
Chicago IL - Illinois Elder Law estate planning -- Peck Bloom Et Al, Cook County      Click to request assistance
Chicago IL - Illinois Elder Law Attorney lawyer -- Marc Lane Attorney At Law, Cook County      Click to request assistance
Chicago IL - Illinois Elder Law estate planning -- Michael H Erde & Associates Pc, Cook County      Click to request assistance
Chicago IL - Illinois Medicaid planning advice -- Spain Spain & Varnet Pc, Cook County      Click to request assistance
Chicago IL - Illinois save assets from Medicare if -- Patricia Handlin Attorney At Law, Cook County      Click to request assistance
Chicago IL - Illinois Medicaid spend down and recovery -- Fischel & Kahn, Cook County      Click to request assistance
Chicago IL - Illinois Elder Law Attorney lawyer -- Levin & Perconti, Cook County      Click to request assistance
Chicago IL - Illinois Medicaid planning advice -- Susan Kennedy Attorney At Law, Cook County      Click to request assistance
Chicago IL - Illinois Medicaid spend down and recovery -- Mcfadden & Dillon Pc, Cook County      Click to request assistance
Chicago IL - Illinois Elder Law estate planning -- Thomas F Mcfarland Pc, Cook County      Click to request assistance
Chicago IL - Illinois trusts wills, living wills, power of attorney, probate -- Arnstein & Lehr, Cook County      Click to request assistance
Chicago IL - Illinois trusts wills, living wills, power of attorney, probate -- Thomas Olofsson Attorney At Law, Cook County      Click to request assistance
Chicago IL - Illinois Elder Law Attorney lawyer -- Querrey & Harrow, Cook County      Click to request assistance
Decatur IL - Illinois trusts wills, living wills, power of attorney, probate -- Moore Susler Et Al, Macon County      Click to request assistance
Dekalb IL - Illinois save assets from Medicare if -- Law Office Of Deborah L Ullrich, Dekalb County      Click to request assistance
Dixon IL - Illinois Medicaid spend down and recovery -- Ehrmann Gehlbach Et Al, Lee County      Click to request assistance
Downers Grove IL - Illinois trusts wills, living wills, power of attorney, probate -- Momkus Mccluskey, Dupage County      Click to request assistance
Downersgrove IL - Illinois Elder Law Attorney lawyer -- Law Office Of Eileen R Fitzgerald, Dupage County      Click to request assistance
Eastalton IL - Illinois save assets from Medicare if -- Leonard Berg Attorney At Law, Madison County      Click to request assistance
Elgin IL - Illinois trusts wills, living wills, power of attorney, probate -- Schnell Bazos Et Al, Kane County      Click to request assistance
Elmhurst IL - Illinois Elder Law Attorney lawyer -- Neiburger Law Ltd, Dupage County      Click to request assistance
Freeport IL - Illinois save assets from Medicare if -- Howard Prestwich Attorney At Law, Stephenson County      Click to request assistance
Freeport IL - Illinois Medicaid spend down and recovery -- Plager Krug & Bauer Ltd, Stephenson County      Click to request assistance
Galesburg IL - Illinois Elder Law estate planning -- Robertson Wilcox Et Al, Knox County      Click to request assistance
Geneseo IL - Illinois trusts wills, living wills, power of attorney, probate -- Nash Nash Bean & Ford, Henry County      Click to request assistance
Geneva IL - Illinois Medicaid spend down and recovery -- Law Office Of Daniel Parsons, Kane County      Click to request assistance
Grayslake IL - Illinois trusts wills, living wills, power of attorney, probate -- Ronald Runkle Attorney At Law, Lake County      Click to request assistance
Homewood IL - Illinois Elder Law Attorney lawyer -- Cummings & Duda Ltd, Cook County      Click to request assistance
Joliet IL - Illinois Medicaid planning advice -- June Prodehl & Renzi Llc, Will County      Click to request assistance
Lacon IL - Illinois Elder Law estate planning -- Elizabeth Beck Attorney At Law, Marshall County      Click to request assistance
Lagrange IL - Illinois trusts wills, living wills, power of attorney, probate -- Judith Kerr Attorney At Law, Cook County      Click to request assistance
Lagrange IL - Illinois Elder Law Attorney lawyer -- Wilson & Wilson Law Offices, Cook County      Click to request assistance
Lincolnshire IL - Illinois Medicaid planning advice -- The Law Offices Of Gary R Waitzman Llc, Lake County      Click to request assistance
Lisle IL - Illinois save assets from Medicare if -- Lenita Aubuchon Attorney At Law, Dupage County      Click to request assistance
Lisle IL - Illinois Medicaid spend down and recovery -- Mary Kay Furiasse Pc, Dupage County      Click to request assistance
Lombard IL - Illinois Elder Law estate planning -- Dennis J Mcnicholas Ltd, Dupage County      Click to request assistance
Lombard IL - Illinois trusts wills, living wills, power of attorney, probate -- Faermark Mindel & Williams, Dupage County      Click to request assistance
Mackinaw IL - Illinois Elder Law Attorney lawyer -- Mark J Mcgrath Pc, Tazewell County      Click to request assistance
Maryville IL - Illinois Medicaid planning advice -- Huffman Law Offices Pc, Madison County      Click to request assistance
Moline IL - Illinois save assets from Medicare if -- Long & Associates, Rock Island County      Click to request assistance
Moline IL - Illinois Medicaid spend down and recovery -- Jamieson Long & Associates, Rock Island County      Click to request assistance
Morris IL - Illinois Elder Law Attorney lawyer -- Jorstad, Hynds, Rooks et al, Grundy County      Click to request assistance
Northbrook IL - Illinois Elder Law estate planning -- Reed Law Associates Pc, Cook County      Click to request assistance
Northbrook IL - Illinois trusts wills, living wills, power of attorney, probate -- Larry Magill & Associates Pc, Cook County      Click to request assistance
Oak Park IL - Illinois Elder Law estate planning -- Law Office Of Lance D. Taylor, Cook County      Click to request assistance
Oakbrook IL - Illinois trusts wills, living wills, power of attorney, probate -- Daniel Hands Attorney At Law, Dupage County      Click to request assistance
Oakbrook IL - Illinois Elder Law Attorney lawyer -- Darcy Chamberlin Attorney At Law, Dupage County      Click to request assistance
Oaklawn IL - Illinois Medicaid planning advice -- Stephen Sutera Attorney At Law, Cook County      Click to request assistance
Oakpark IL - Illinois save assets from Medicare if -- Kennelly & Associates, Cook County      Click to request assistance
Orland Hills IL - Illinois Medicaid spend down and recovery -- Lechner Law Office Pc, Cook County      Click to request assistance
Orland Park IL - Illinois Elder Law estate planning -- Delaney Law Offices Ltd, Cook County      Click to request assistance
Palos Heights IL - Illinois save assets from Medicare if -- Paul A Smolinski Ltd, Cook County      Click to request assistance
Parkridge IL - Illinois Elder Law estate planning -- Owens Owens & Rinn Ltd, Cook County      Click to request assistance
Parkridge IL - Illinois trusts wills, living wills, power of attorney, probate -- Law Office Of Peter N Ryan, Cook County      Click to request assistance
Peoria IL - Illinois save assets from Medicare if -- James Grebe Hasselberg Williams Et Al, Peoria County      Click to request assistance
Peoria IL - Illinois Medicaid spend down and recovery -- Thomas Henry Attorney At Law, Peoria County      Click to request assistance
Peoria IL - Illinois Elder Law estate planning -- Heyl Royster Voelker & Allen, Peoria County      Click to request assistance
Peoria IL - Illinois trusts wills, living wills, power of attorney, probate -- William Wombacher Cela Cap Attorney At Law, Peoria County      Click to request assistance
Princeton IL - Illinois Elder Law Attorney lawyer -- Russell English Scoma & Beneke, Bureau County      Click to request assistance
Quincy IL - Illinois Medicaid planning advice -- Schmiedeskamp Robertson Et Al, Adams County      Click to request assistance
Quincy IL - Illinois save assets from Medicare if -- Thomas K Leeper Pc, Adams County      Click to request assistance
Quincy IL - Illinois Medicaid spend down and recovery -- Scholz Loos Palmer Siebers Et Al, Adams County      Click to request assistance
Rockford IL - Illinois Medicaid spend down and recovery -- Attorney Jay S Trost, Winnebago County      Click to request assistance
Rockford IL - Illinois trusts wills, living wills, power of attorney, probate -- Oliver W Nelson Pc, Winnebago County      Click to request assistance
Rockford IL - Illinois Elder Law Attorney lawyer -- Sharon Rudy Attorney At Law, Winnebago County      Click to request assistance
Rosemont IL - Illinois Medicaid planning advice -- Law Office Of Anthony B Ferraro, Cook County      Click to request assistance
Saint Charles IL - Illinois save assets from Medicare if -- Weiler & Lengle Pc, Kane County      Click to request assistance
Salem IL - Illinois Medicaid spend down and recovery -- Mark Haney Attorney At Law, Marion County      Click to request assistance
Skokie IL - Illinois Elder Law estate planning -- Ray Fleischer & Fox, Cook County      Click to request assistance
Springfield IL - Illinois trusts wills, living wills, power of attorney, probate -- Labarre Young & Behnke, Sangamon County      Click to request assistance
St Charles IL - Illinois Medicaid planning advice -- American Bank & Trust Co, Kane County      Click to request assistance
St Charles IL - Illinois save assets from Medicare if -- Strohschein Law Group Llc, Kane County      Click to request assistance
Sterling IL - Illinois Medicaid spend down and recovery -- Ward Murray Et Al, Whiteside County      Click to request assistance
Streator IL - Illinois Elder Law estate planning -- M G Gulo & Associates Ltd, Lasalle County      Click to request assistance
Sycamore IL - Illinois trusts wills, living wills, power of attorney, probate -- Klein Stoddard Et Al, Dekalb County      Click to request assistance
Tremont IL - Illinois Elder Law estate planning -- Eugene Kepple Attorney At Law, Tazewell County      Click to request assistance
Urbana IL - Illinois trusts wills, living wills, power of attorney, probate -- Webber & Thies Pc, Champaign County      Click to request assistance
Washington IL - Illinois Elder Law Attorney lawyer -- Mescher Law Offices Pc, Tazewell County      Click to request assistance
Wheaton IL - Illinois save assets from Medicare if -- Carol Nolan Attorney At Law, Dupage County      Click to request assistance
Wheaton IL - Illinois Medicaid spend down and recovery -- Law Office Of Cynthia Hayes Hutchins Pc, Dupage County      Click to request assistance
Wheaton IL - Illinois Elder Law estate planning -- Janet Sullivan Attorneyat Law, Dupage County      Click to request assistance
Wheaton IL - Illinois trusts wills, living wills, power of attorney, probate -- Peggy A Pratscher Ltd, Dupage County      Click to request assistance
Willowbrook IL - Illinois Elder Law Attorney lawyer -- Mosteller & Holmberg Pc, Dupage County      Click to request assistance
Wilmette IL - Illinois Medicaid planning advice -- Damon Doucet Attorney At Law, Cook County      Click to request assistance
Winnetka IL - Illinois save assets from Medicare if -- Padgitt Padgitt & Peppey, Cook County      Click to request assistance
Wood River IL - Illinois Medicaid spend down and recovery -- Richard Gibson Attorney At Law, Madison 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.