Answer: If you are a professional who helps families plan for or deal with ANY of their elder care matters, then you owe it to yourself to be listed on America's #1 online source for "Elder Care Experts"….
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Phillip G. Sanders, MBA, MSHA, CPA
Founder & CEO
ElderCare Matters, LLC
ElderCareMatters.com
Answer: Assuming you have a valid financial or general power of attorney that complies with state law, you need to check the document. When does the document say the power is effective? Some are effective immediately upon signing it. In that case, you can use the power right now. She may, however, try to revoke it.
Most powers of attorney, however, are considered “springing.” That means the power of attorney is effective upon some triggering event, usually incapacity. The document should say how incapacity will be determined. For example, some say that the principal (the person who signed the power of attorney) must be determined to be incapacitated by two physicians. If such a requirement is in the document, then you will need written statements from the physicians stating that she cannot manage her financial affairs. Those statements should be kept with the power of attorney and made a part of it.
Remember that financial institutions may not accept the power of attorney. Some will not accept a power that is a certain number of years old. Others will look for certain clauses that may or may not me in your document. And some financial institutions seem to give people a hard time just because. It is very difficult to try to force a financial institution to accept a power of attorney.
If your power of attorney turns out to be ineffective for whatever reason, you may need to petition the court for a conservatorship.
Ronald Zack, Esq.
Tucson, Arizona
520-331-3232
www.TucsonEstatePlanning.com
This week's Featured Elder Care Expert is Angela N. Manz, Attorney at Law, Member of the ElderCare Matters Alliance (a network of 1,450+ elder care experts) and Founder of the Law Office of Angela N. Manz, a law firm in Virginia Beach, Virginia, that specializes in Elder Law, Estate Planning, and closely related practice areas.
Every day this week (M-F), Ms. Manz will answer one of your questions about her areas of expertise (Elder Law & Estate Planning), and this selected question along with Ms. Manz 's answer will be posted on the Featured Elder Care Question of the Day section of ElderCareMatters.com.
So if you would like to ask Ms. Manz a question about your elder care matter, just send a short email (a few sentences only please) to: questions@ElderCareMatters. com.
And remember to bookmark ElderCareMatters.com and check back often to see if your question is our Featured Elder Care Question of the Day.
Answer: Legal problems that affect the elderly are growing in number. Our laws and regulations are becoming more complex. Actions taken by older people with regard to a single matter may have unintended legal effects. It is important for attorneys dealing with the elderly to have a broad understanding of the laws that may have an impact on a given situation, to avoid future problems.
Unfortunately, this job is not made easy by the fact that Elder Law encompasses many different fields of law. 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 incompetence 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
- Health law
- Mental health law
Most Elder Law Attorneys do not specialize in every one of these areas. So when an attorney says he/she practices Elder Law, find out which of these matters he/she handles. You will want to hire the attorney who regularly handles matters in the area of concern in your particular case and who will know enough about the other fields to question whether the action being taken might be affected by laws in any of the other areas of law on the list. For example, if you are going to prepare a new will and your spouse is ill, the estate planner needs to know enough about Medicaid to know whether it is an issue with regard to your spouse’s medical care planning.
David F. Anderson, Esq.
David F. Anderson, P.A.
Miami Lakes, Florida 33016
305-825-4052
Member of the national ElderCare Matters Alliance, Florida chapter
Steven H. Peck, Attorney at Law
Law Offices of Steven H. Peck, Ltd.
300 Saunders Road
Suite 100
Riverwoods, Illinois 60015
Member of the national ElderCare Matters Alliance, Illinois chapter
Steven H. Peck is a native of Boston, Massachusetts and is married with three daughters. Mr. Peck graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from Harvard College. He received his Juris Doctor degree from Boston College Law School.
Mr. Peck is licensed to practice law in Illinois, New York, Massachusetts, Florida and six federal jurisdictions, including the United States Supreme Court and the United States Tax Court.
Mr. Peck has been involved in the estate and tax planning field for over 19 years and is devoted full time to the practice of estate planning. He is a member of the Illinois Forum of Estate Planning Attorneys as well as Wealth Counsel, a nationwide group of attorneys committed to bringing their clients the finest estate planning advice and documentation possible. Additionally, he is a member of Elder Counsel, which is devoted to the practice of elder law and special needs planning. Mr. Peck is also listed in Nationwide Register’s, Who’s Who in Executives and Businesses.
Mr. Peck has presented several hundred seminars on the topic of estate planning for the public and various private organizations across the country. He was also a faculty member for National Business Institute’s professional education seminar “Handling the Generation-Skipping Transfer Tax”.
Prior to estate planning law Mr. Peck practiced real estate development law and spent four years active duty as a captain in the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General’s Corps. Additionally, he has a substantial knowledge of the insurance field having spent several years as an insurance broker prior to practicing law.
Answer: If you are an elder care professional and you would like to "get the word out to thousands of families across America in a cost effective way about how you can help them plan for and deal with their issues of aging", then you should join our 1,250 elder care experts as a lifetime member of the national ElderCare Matters Alliance. And, now, if you are one of the next 250 members, you will receive a 25% discount off the regular lifetime membership price.
This 25% discount is available only to the next 250 elder care professionals who join the national ElderCare Matters Alliance.
So if you are a competent, caring elder care professional – take advantage of this special 25% discount offer and pay only $337.50 for a "lifetime membership" (and there are no annual membership dues, ever!) to the national ElderCare Matters Alliance.
To request an Application for Lifetime Membership, send an email directly to: psanders@eldercarematters.com
Phillip G. Sanders, MBA, MSHA, CPA
Founder & CEO
ElderCare Matters, LLC
1-877-379-4500
www.ElderCareMatters.com
If you are an elder care professional and you would like to "get the word out to thousands of families across America in a cost effective way about how you can help them plan for and deal with their issues of aging", then you should join our 1,250 elder care experts as a lifetime member of the national ElderCare Matters Alliance. And, now, if you are one of the next 250 members, you will receive a 25% discount off the regular lifetime membership price.
This 25% discount is available only to the next 250 elder care professionals who join the national ElderCare Matters Alliance.
So if you are a competent, caring elder care professional – take advantage of this special 25% discount offer and pay only $337.50 for a "lifetime membership" (and there are no annual membership dues, ever!) to the national ElderCare Matters Alliance.
To request an Application for Lifetime Membership, send an email directly to: psanders@eldercarematters.com
Phillip G. Sanders, MBA, MSHA, CPA
Founder & CEO
ElderCare Matters, LLC
1-877-379-4500
www.ElderCareMatters.com
Answer: The experts of the national ElderCare Matters Alliance.
ElderCareMatters.com is now offering a NEW Ask an Elder Care Expert service.
Each week one of our 1,200 experts will answer your family's important questions about elder care matters – from legal, financial, housing, health care, etc.
If you would like to ask one of our Elder Care Experts a question about his/her areas of expertise, just send a short email (a few sentences only please) to: Questions@ElderCareMatters.com
Every day we will post one of your questions along with an answer provided by our Featured Elder Care Expert of the Week to the homepage of www.ElderCareMatters.com (which is currently visited by thousands of families each week). Yours may be one of the questions posted.
So bookmark www.ElderCareMatters.com and visit us daily as questions about a wide range of elder care matters are answered by some of America's top elder care professionals with years of experience helping families plan for and deal with their issues of aging.
Phillip G. Sanders, MBA, MSHA, CPA
Founder & CEO
ElderCare Matters
1-877-379-4500
www.ElderCareMatters.com
The ElderCare Matters Alliance is a national organization of 1,200 elder care experts who help families across America plan for and deal with their issues of aging, including providing families with a host of elder care resources that can be found on www.ElderCareMatters.com
If you are a competent, caring elder care professional – you need to belong to the national ElderCare Matters Alliance.
To request a Lifetime Membership Application to the national ElderCare Matters Alliance, send an email to psanders@ElderCareMatters.com
www.ElderCareMatters.com – America's online source for elder care experts who help families plan for and deal with their issues of aging.
Phillip G. Sanders, MBA, MSHA, CPA
Founder & CEO
ElderCare Matters
www.ElderCareMatters.com
Answer: A Power of Attorney is a document that allows another person or people to manage your assets for you, upon your incapacity.
In your Power of Attorney, you are known as the Principal, while the person or people you choose to manage your assets are known as Agent(s).
A Durable Power of Attorney is effective from the date you sign it, through your incapacity, until you choose to revoke it.
A Springing Power of Attorney is only effective upon your incapacity.
Sonya Mittelman, Attorney at Law
Bronx, NY 10461
718-863-4647
Member of the national ElderCare Matters Alliance, New York chapter
