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New Book Offers Guidance Through the Medicare Maze

The Medicare program has become so complex that expert guidance is almost essential. That’s where Get What’s Yours for Medicare comes in.  

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What Is the Best Way to Make Sure a Trustee Follows the Trust Rules?

We are getting ready to draft a trust. We have one son, so he will be the trustee. What is the best way to make sure he follows the rules set forth in the trust? We have read about nightmares with trust protectors, financial managers/advisors that control the investments, companies that control the trust, and trust managers. We have no other relatives.

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Elder Law Attorneys to Present Free Webinar on What to Expect from Trump and the New Congress

Four nationally known elder law attorneys will present a free webinar on the new legislative and legal landscape followiing the election of President Trump and identify planning and other steps older Americans can take to preserve quality of health care and quality of life.

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What is Reasonable Compensation for an Agent Under a Power of Attorney?

What is a reasonable amount of reimbursement for me as an agent under a power of attorney who is paying bills, picking up prescriptions, and going on doctor visits and trips to buy groceries for my elderly mother?

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Is It Better to Use Joint Ownership or a Trust to Pass Down a Home?

When leaving a home to your children, you can avoid probate by using either joint ownership or a revocable trust, but which is the better method?

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What Can I Do if There Is No One to Replace Me as Agent Under a POA??

I am an agent under a durable power of attorney for a friend with a challenging form of dementia. I can no longer serve as her agent, and she has no other friends willing to do it. What are my options?

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Costs of Some New Long-Term Care Insurance Policies Rise in Latest Survey

A couple who are both age 60 and who purchase new long-term care insurance coverage can expect to pay between 6 and 9 percent more compared to a year ago according to the 2017 Long Term Care Insurance Price Index.

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Trump Delays Rule That Retirement Advisers Put Their Client's Interests Ahead of Their Own

President Trump signed an executive order calling for a review of the fiduciary rule that was intended to prevent financial advisers from steering their clients to bad retirement investments.

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