Some of these include:
Preservation/transfer of assets seeking to avoid spousal impoverishment
when a spouse enters a nursing home
• Medicaid
• 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
• Age discrimination in employment Retirement, including public
and private retirement benefits, survivor benefits and pension benefits
