Jackson, MS (August 16, 2018) - Best Lawyers, the oldest and one of the most respected attorney ranking services, has selected Richard Courtney, Certified Elder Law Attorney, for inclusion in…
We regularly help attorneys and families of disabled children or adults who have public benefits like Supplemental Security Income (SSI) and Medicaid. These programs have limits on the “countable” assets…
Many spouses, children and siblings of persons with disabilities or incapacitated elders hire non-family caregivers. If non-family caregivers are paid to provide such services, they are either employees or independent…
Protection and Advocacy Systems (P&As) work at the state level to protect individuals with disabilities by empowering them and advocating on their behalf. The first P&A program - PADD (Protection…
I recently had the opportunity to help two clients who were in despair about lack of health care coverage. One was a young single mother of a disabled child, the…
There are two types of Special Needs Trusts (SNTs), commonly designated as first-party and third-party SNTs. It is important to determine which type of SNT you have or need. This…
The law presumes that every adult is competent to make his or her own health-care decisions, and that no one has authority to make such decisions for the individual unless…
The recent Tax Cuts and Jobs Act threatened to remove some important provisions for persons with disabilities from the law. However, two important provisions were kept after the tough negotiations…
This article is reprinted with permission of the Special Needs Alliance - www.specialneedsalliance.org. There are two types of Special Needs Trusts (SNTs), commonly designated as first-party and third-party SNTs. It is…
Loving parents set up a special needs trust (SNT) for their child with disabilities and name themselves as trustees. They intend to fund it with assets upon their deaths and…
