In 2007, NBC News aired a special about VA Aid & Attendance benefits in series about Trading Places: Caring For Your Parents. Here is the video embedded if you want to watch it. (It's just under 3 minutes.) The video is 5 years old and mainstream awareness of his benefit has not advanced much[...]
It's no secret that resources for government-sponsored programs are dwindling. When it's a program like Medicaid, where each state is responsible for a portion of their costs, then the budget crunches are even more pronounced. This article from the Wall Street Journal discusses how the landscape for qualifying for Medicaid is changing, and getting harder. In[...]
My wife laughs politely as I refer to our local paper, The Trenton Times, as "the local fish wrapper" - even though I've made that joke hundreds of times. Occasionally, I find an article of interest and I can't help but link to it. Padding back into the house after bringing in the Sunday paper,[...]
My second job as an attorney was working for a large law firm doing "big deals". (My first job was as a judicial clerk for a federal district judge for one year.) I worked on bringing the Tempur-Pedic company public with an IPO (initial public offering). To be clear, my work was limited to proofreading[...]
According to this article, there will be 10,000 Americans turning 65 every day for the next 18 years. That population surge has created a whole new business sector for seniors wanting to "age in place" — which is a fancy way of saying they want to stay home and out of a nursing home. In[...]
Human behavior is often a curious thing. People tend to delay or fail to do something, even when there's every incentive and benefit to do it. Estate planning and elder law planning is like that. Focusing, for the moment, just on elder law or Medicaid planning, the earlier someone plans the more options they have[...]
A single winning ticket was sold in Rhode Island for the $336M Powerball lottery drawing a little while back. The winner has stepped forward to claim her prize. Her name is Louise White and she is described as a "vivacious" 81-year old. Here is the news article. Ms. White claimed the prize on behalf[...]
I was reading my youngest son a story before bedtime. Lately, he's been into the Berenstain Bears and tonight we read The Berenstain Bears and The Joy of Giving. This one is a Christmas story that tries to teach that there is more joy in giving than receiving. Just the right lesson for a 5[...]
Here is one of those posts that tells you to go read another website. Nothing fancy on this end, just go read that other article. Interesting article today in Forbes, entitled Five Crucial Estate Planning Mistakes You Are Making. Read it here: https://www.forbes.com/sites/financialfinesse/2011/12/15/five-crucial-estate-planning-mistakes-you-are-making/ Posted by Victor Medina Medina Law Group, LLC - The New[...]
When I heard about Steve Jobs resigning as CEO of Apple, I was in the middle of running rehearsal for the a cappella group of which I am the assistant musical director. I found out the news because my friend, Mark Merenda, had texted me with a simple, “Steve Jobs resigns as CEO”, and I[...]