Marks Elder Law Blog
Now is the time to plan for future long-term care and create sound financial strategies
It's just as important as ever to protect against nursing home costs, by planning ahead or getting advice at the right time. In these crazy days of quarantine and pandemic, most of us are focused on just surviving and staying healthy day-to-day. Planning ahead...
When You Need a Lawyer and Don’t Even Know It
Recent studies reveal why people don’t use a lawyer even when faced with a situation where a lawyer might be helpful. The biggest reason people don’t have an attorney is: NOT because they believe it would make any difference; NOT because it’s too expensive or they can...
Preparing for the unexpected with your estate plan
Many people may associate estate planning with end-of-life issues. However, you can use estate planning tools to make sure your wishes do not go unheeded if you are disabled, for example by a car accident or an unexpected health complication. You can let people know...
When should you start Medicaid planning?
Even if you are healthy and active right now, you may eventually lose some of your faculties because of illness, injury or old age. If so, you may choose to move into a nursing home to receive the care you need. Unfortunately, though, nursing homes can be almost...
Governor Allows Law Offices Partial Reopening for Urgent Business Not Conducive to Telework
While most attorneys and law offices have been working remotely and have been subject to the Pennsylvania Order that nonessential places of business be closed, attorney organizations have been working closely with state government all along to allow urgent legal...
Coronavirus Litigation Looms
The nursing home industry, concerned about liability to patients and families for actions and failures during the crisis, has been pushing for legal immunity from lawsuits during what they see as an unprecedented medical emergency and disaster. More than 1/5th of all...
Elder Law in the Age of Pandemic, and Coronavirus Relief Benefits
In this time of uncertainty and fear about the COVID 19 crisis, it’s more important than ever to take care of your personal and family estate and elder law planning needs. Especially now, to protect your family and your own...
ESTATE PLANNING AND ELDER LAW QUIZ. True or false:
1. I own everything jointly with my spouse, so we don't need wills. FALSE. Especially on the death the second spouse to pass away, when there’s no surviving spouse to inherit, a Will would be helpful or even necessary to direct your estate to those who should inherit....
What are the primary advantages of trusts?
When you want to create a secure legal arrangement for property during your lifetime or leave a legacy behind for your loved ones, you may choose to do so using any number of different methods. The manner in which you arrange your assets now or leave them behind later...
I have a solid estate plan in place. Why revise it?
Most Pennsylvanians agree that an estate plan is important, but not everyone has one in place. If you are a part of the proactive group who got this off your to-do list from early on, you may wonder, what is the point of changing it now? The truth is that you may not...
