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  • Living Trusts and the Asset Protection Question
  • How Will You Obtain the Care You Need?
  • Are There Taxes on Inherited IRAs?
  • How Can My IRA Fit Into My Estate Plan?
  • Joint Living Trusts for Married Couples
  • An Explanation of Adult Guardianship
  • Five Key Facts About Estate Taxes
  • Inheritance Planning for Business Owners
  • Don’t Overlook This Estate Planning Tool
  • Medicaid Planning: It’s a Numbers Game
  • Legacy Planning: Gifts From the Heart
  • Estate Planning and Individual Retirement Accounts
  • Estate Planning for Young Adults
  • Asset Transfers That Are Not Subject to Probate
  • Don’t Make These Common Estate Plan Mistakes
  • Succession Planning for Small Business Partners
  • Trustee Selection Is Key
  • Long-Term Care and the Ohio Passport Waiver
  • Intestate Succession in Ohio
  • Medicaid Allows for Community Spouse Protections
  • Components of a Well Rounded Estate Plan
  • Medicaid Planning and In-Home Care
  • Can Living Trust Terms Be Contested?
  • Understand the Limitations of Medicare
  • Meet the Eventualities of Aging Head-On
  • Do You Really Need an Estate Plan?
  • Why Would You Use an Irrevocable Trust?
  • Six Things You Need to Know About Probate
  • Aretha Franklin Estate Matter Takes Interesting Turn
  • Medicaid Planning and Estate Recovery
  • Answers to Five Common Estate Planning Questions
  • Asset Protection: Preserve Your Legacy
  • Unraveling an Alphabet Soup of Estate Planning Terms
  • Protect a Spendthrift With a Living Trust
  • Basics of Estate Planning: Lack of Coordination
  • Estate Planning: Cover All Your Bases
  • Benefit Preservation for Disabled Cincinnatians
  • Can You Download a DIY Estate Plan?
  • Do All Assets Count When You Apply for Medicaid?
  • Legacy Planning for Wealthy Families
  • A Look at 2019 Ohio Medicaid Parameters
  • Two Trusts That Satisfy Advanced Estate Planning Objectives
  • Estate Planning vs. Legacy Planning
  • Who Can Act as a Living Trust Trustee?
  • A Conversation With a Cincinnati Estate Planning Lawyer
  • Special Needs Trusts and Medicaid Recovery
  • These Estate Planning Mistakes Can Be Costly
  • Make Informed Estate Planning Decisions
  • Medicaid Planning: Spousal Considerations for 2019
  • A Living Trust Isn’t a Cure All
  • Alzheimer’s Association Has Cincinnati Chapter
  • Medicaid Eligibility Is Not Necessarily Permanent
  • Four Facts That Will Impact Your Retirement Plan
  • Can You Give Gifts to Avoid the Estate Tax?
  • Why Would You Use an Irrevocable Trust?
  • What Is the Function of the Probate Court?
  • Can a Trust Provide Nursing Home Asset Protection?
  • Pet Ownership Can Be Beneficial for Lonely Elders
  • Beneficiary Designations, etc., Aren’t a True Substitute for a Trust
  • Selecting an Agent
  • Asset Protection 101
  • Estate Planning: Looking Beneath the Surface
  • Why Should I Care About Medicaid Planning?
  • Domestic Asset Protection Trusts
  • The Little Things May be the Most Important
  • SALT Deduction Limit…Can You Get Around It?
  • Tax Tips after New Year
  • Do I Lose Control of Assets in a Revocable Living Trust?
  • Is Probate Always Necessary in Ohio?
  • What Is an AB Trust?
  • Turning the Page on 2018 and Looking Forward to 2019
  • Estate Tax Exclusion Adjusted for 2019
  • How Can You Reduce Your Estate Tax Burden?
  • Estate Planning is About More Than Taxes
  • Revocable Living Trusts Provide a Host of Benefits
  • What Is Intestacy?
  • Special Accounts for People with Special Needs
  • Does an Irrevocable Trust Pay Capital Gains Taxes?
  • Medicaid Planning for the Elderly
  • Prenuptial Agreements Can Provide Remarriage Protection
  • Giving Back
  • QDRO: Not Just for Divorce Anymore
  • Proposed Regulations Address “Clawback” Issue
  • An Elder Law Q & A Session
  • A Look at Four Different Types of Wills
  • Holiday Gifts and the Federal Estate Tax
  • The Anatomy of an Estate Plan
  • Family Caregivers: Some Important Information
  • Beware of Overly Simplistic Estate Planning Notions
  • Naming a Trust as Beneficiary of an IRA
  • Planning for the Client Moving Overseas
  • Legacy Planning Can Leave a Lasting Impression
  • Report: Cincinnati Long-Term Care Costs Are Expected to Rise
  • Estate Planning is for You, Not Just Your Parents or Grandparents
  • Blue Ash Trust Administration: An Overview
  • Blue Ash Elder Law Attorneys Are in High Demand
  • Is it Hard to Contest a Will?
  • Living Trusts: Debunking the Big Myth
  • A Look at Three Pressing Elder Law Issues
  • A Special Needs Trust Can Provide a Solution
  • Five Important Long-Term Care Facts
  • Medicaid Planning: When Is it Too Late?
  • An Irrevocable Trust May Be the Right Choice
  • Consider the Estate Administration Process
  • A Living Trust Can Provide Spendthrift Protections
  • Ohio Nursing Home Workers Plead Guilty After Patient Death
  • Planning for Lottery Winners, Part 2 of 2
  • Are You Ready to be an Executor?
  • Can’t I Just Give Away My Assets and Qualify for Medicaid Benefits?
  • Planning for Lottery Winners, Part 1 of 2
  • What is the Most Important Estate Planning document?
  • Biggest Benefits of a Living Trust
  • What’s a 529 Plan and What Are the Benefits to Using One?
  • Can You Afford Long-Term Care at Home?
  • What is a Crummey Power?
  • Planning to Avoid Too Much SALT
  • Tools Cincinnati Estate Planning Lawyers Help You Use
  • Trusts for Privacy
  • Cincinnati Estate Planning Attorneys Offer 5 Estate Planning Tips You Need to Know
  • What Does It Mean to Probate a Will?
  • Need A Timely Transfer of Wealth? Cincinnati Living Trust Attorneys Will Help
  • You Never Know: Planning for the Unexpected
  • What Are the Disadvantages of a Power of Attorney?
  • What are the Benefits of Medicaid Planning?
  • Incapacity Planning
  • How Do I Fund My Trust?
  • Ohio Passes on Option to Delay Controversial Medicaid Electronic Verification Systems
  • Planning for Frequent Flyer Miles
  • Cincinnati Revocable Trusts Give You Flexibility and Protection
  • Estate Planning: It’s Not Just About the Estate Taxes
  • When is Avoiding Probate Especially Important?
  • The Most Important Services Blue Ash Estate Planning Lawyers Provide
  • The Most Important Ways Cincinnati Medicaid Lawyers Help You
  • How Do Cincinnati Asset Protection Lawyers Help You Decide What Assets are at Risk?
  • What if I Create a Joint Tenancy With My Child?
  • Top Living Trust Benefits
  • Trust Administration and the Timely Transfer of Assets
  • Ohio Meals on Wheels Receives Large Donation
  • Cincinnati Estate Planning Lawyers Explain Guardianship
  • Cincinnati Medicaid Attorneys Explain Five Common Medicaid Planning Mistakes
  • Zimmer Law Firm Celebrates its 25th Anniversary
  • Cincinnati Estate Planning Attorneys Offer Tips for Alzheimer’s Patients
  • Estate Planning: Simple is not Always Better
  • Estate Planning is Too Important to Procrastinate
  • 5 Reasons Revocable Living Trusts Benefit Your Heirs
  • Benefits of Home Healthcare Over Nursing Home Care
  • What Special Needs Planning Attorneys Want Parents to Know
  • 6 Important Estate Planning Considerations – Part 5: Retirement Assets
  • 6 Important Estate Planning Considerations – Part 4: Beneficiary Designations
  • Academy Event in Las Vegas Hit the Jackpot!
  • 6 Important Estate Planning Considerations – Part 3: Your Kids
  • Top Reasons You May Need to Move to a Nursing Home
  • No Charitable Deduction in 2018?
  • Would You Prefer a Charitable Deduction This Year?
  • How to Make a Plan to Protect Your Pets
  • Age-Related Retirement Milestones
  • Cleveland Clinic Has Launched a Medicare Advantage Plan
  • How to Provide for a Disabled Relative Without Putting Medical Benefits at Risk
  • Retirement is Complicated
  • Key Facts Seniors Need to Know About Retirement
  • Retirement: It’s not Just About the Money
  • Estate Planning: The Simplest Plan is Usually Not the Best
  • 6 Important Estate Planning Considerations – Part 2: Long-Term Care
  • 6 Important Estate Planning Considerations – Part 1: Incapacity
  • How Are You Planning for Long-Term Care (LTC) Expenses?
  • 5 Things Trust Lawyers Want You to Know
  • 5 Things Estate Planning Attorneys Want You To Know
  • Treasury Releases New Inflation Adjustment
  • Cincinnati Medicaid Attorneys Offer Tips for Caregivers
  • 5 Reasons Avoiding Probate Benefits Your Heirs
  • Income Tax Basis in Estate Planning – Part 2
  • Why Creating a Trust is Better Than a Will
  • Cincinnati Medicaid Lawyers Explain Why You Can’t Wait to Start Your Medicaid Plan
  • Basis is Important in Estate Planning
  • Local Senior Center Applauds Bill Protecting the Elderly
  • Cincinnati Estate Planning Lawyers Explain the Benefits of Advanced Directives
  • Does a Living Trust Allow You To Avoid Estate Tax?
  • Understanding Guardianship Proceedings in Probate Court
  • When a Will Isn’t Enough For Your Estate Plan
  • Donor Advised Funds: IRS Ruling
  • Myths and Misconceptions About Elder Law
  • Making the College Send-Off Easier with the Young Adult Protection Plan
  • Questions to Ask When Choosing a Trustee
  • New Tax Law May Affect State Income Tax, Too!
  • How to Keep Estate Affairs Private
  • 5 Steps to Take In Planning for Incapacity
  • Ohio Debates Work Requirements for Medicaid
  • Giving Up Driving Can Be Hard for Seniors
  • New Plan Gives Parents of Young Adults Peace of Mind
  • Five Reasons to Talk with an Inheritance Planning Lawyer
  • Planning for Retirement Plans and IRAs: Beneficiary Designation
  • Sager Family Shows Perils of Blended Families
  • Key Reasons Not to Wait to Make a Medicaid Plan
  • Planning for Retirement Plans and IRAs: Asset Protection
  • What Medicare Doesn’t Cover
  • Why Seniors Can be In Trouble If They Don’t Have a Nursing Home Plan
  • What Services Do Cincinnati Estate Planning Attorneys Provide?
  • A Special Option for Special Kids
  • How Do Nursing Homes Differ from Assisted Living
  • Why Parents of Disabled Children Need a Medicaid Plan
  • Top Mistakes People Make When Creating a Trust
  • Making Plans for Income as a Senior
  • Is Leaving an Equal Inheritance Ever Unfair?
  • Common Mistakes in Medicaid Planning
  • Five Benefits of Trust Administration
  • When Should Seniors Retire?
  • How Are Trusts Taxed?
  • Winter Tips for Seniors
  • Basics of Estate Planning: Choosing a Roth or Traditional IRA (or 401k)
  • What is a Springing Power of Attorney?
  • Five Reasons Creating a Trust May be Right for You
  • Can You Buy Insurance To Protect You if You Need Long-Term Care?
  • What Special Legal Issues Do You Face with a Large Estate?
  • Medicaid Cuts Could Hit Ohio Hard
  • How Your Family Situation Affects Your Plans for Your Legacy
  • Law in the U.S. can be Participatory
  • What is Skilled Nursing Care and Why Does it Matter?
  • Basics of Estate Planning: Advising Clients on Selecting Fiduciaries
  • Facts to Know About Medicaid Estate Recovery
  • Do You Need Life Insurance?
  • Is Contesting a Trust Harder Than Contesting a Will During Probate?
  • Basics of Estate Planning: Asset Protection
  • Estate Planning Advice for Grandparents
  • How a Serious Illness Could Hurt Your Legacy
  • What Caregivers Need to Know About Medicaid
  • What if Money is Left to a Minor?
  • What Does Skilled Nursing Care Mean and Why Does it Matter?
  • Basics of Estate Planning: Two Common Mistakes with Trusts
  • Five Things You Need to Know About Medicaid
  • Why It’s Important for Your Family to Know Where Your Assets Are
  • Estate Planning Steps After Having a Baby
  • Why Asset Protection is More Important if You’re Getting Older
  • A Living Trust is Key if You’re the Family Breadwinner
  • Can You Give Away Your Wealth to Get Medicaid?
  • Basics of Estate Planning: Estate Planning for Major Life Events
  • What is Custodial Care and Why Does it Matter?
  • Responsibilities of a Trust Administrator
  • How Does an Estate Planning Attorney Help if I Get Divorced?
  • How can an Elder Law Attorney Help Plan for Disability?
  • How to Find a Quality Nursing Home
  • How Long Will I Have to Wait to Get an Inheritance After a Death?
  • What are the Key Differences Between Probate and Trust Administration?
  • Are There Alternatives to Medicaid to Pay for Nursing Home Care?
  • Ohio Nursing Homes are Among the Nation’s Worst
  • How Many Seniors Rely on Medicaid?
  • What are Some Alternatives to Nursing Home Care?
  • How Can You Protect Your Inheritance?
  • Why Estate Planning is Important in Blended Families
  • Can I Get Long-Term Care At Home?
  • 5 Differences Between Revocable and Irrevocable Trusts
  • Five Problems That Could Arise During Probate
  • Why Consider Your Heirs When Making an Estate Plan?
  • The Future of Suburban Senior Centers in Cincinnatti
  • How Can You Make the Most of an Inheritance You Receive?
  • Why is Estate Planning Important if You Own Property in Multiple States?
  • Will Tax Reform Impact Estate Taxes?
  • Do all Nursing Homes Accept Medicaid?
  • Should You Leave All of Your Money to Your Children?
  • How Can Estate Planning Attorneys Help You Give to Charity?
  • Why You May Need a Trust Lawyer if Your Spouse Isn’t a U.S. Citizen
  • Common Medicaid Planning Mistakes
  • Estate Planning Advice for Unmarried Couples
  • Are Trusts Only For Wealthy People?
  • Should You Tell Your Kids if You’re Leaving them a Trust Fund?
  • How to Prepare to Meet with a Cincinnati Probate Lawyer
  • How Much Money Could Seniors Need to Spend on Healthcare Costs During Retirement?
  • Hospice is Underused, But Advanced Directives Could Help You Take Control
  • How Does Medicaid Estate Recovery Work?
  • Estate Planning Advice for Single Parents
  • Patients Face Problems in Ohio Nursing Homes
  • How to Prepare to Meet with an Estate Planning Lawyer
  • Tips from Ohio Area Agency on Aging to Identify Nursing Home Abuse
  • 5 Ways a Trust Lawyer Helps Protect Your Wealth
  • Supplemental Security Income
  • Does Emergency Medicaid Provide Immediate Coverage for Care?
  • Limits on the Use of Money in a Special Needs Trust
  • 3 Big Downsides to Guardianship
  • New Statewide Coalition Forms to Serve the Needs of Seniors
  • What is Lifetime Gifting?
  • How a Special Needs Trust Preserves Eligibility for SSI Benefits?
  • How Long Does the Medicaid Lookback Period Last?
  • Four Signs You Need a Spendthrift Trust
  • How Fear Affects Inheritance Planning- and What to Do About It
  • What Can You Include in Healthcare Directives?
  • Can I Still Qualify for Medicaid if I Give Away Assets?
  • How Does a Testamentary Trust Work?
  • Top Reasons You Need an Estate Planning Attorney
  • When Should You Create a Qualifed Domestic Trust?
  • What is the Difference Between Inheritance Tax and Estate Tax?
  • Ohio Pharmacies Team up to Help Seniors
  • What Should be Included in Your Living Will?
  • Guardianship v. Power of Attorney: Pros and Cons
  • Trust Administration Steps to Take After a Death Occurs
  • What are Some Key Differences Between Wills and Trusts?
  • When Does Inheritance Tax Planning Matter?
  • Does a Will have to be Probated?
  • Five Executor Duties
  • Fraud in Ohio Home Care Industry
  • How Wills and Probate Law Affect Families Waiting for an Inheritance
  • What is a Spendthrift Trust?
  • Why Fraudsters Target Seniors: The Latest Telemarketing Scams
  • Why is Retirement Tax Planning Important?
  • Why You May Want to Keep Your Family Out of Probate Court
  • How to Avoid Sabotaging your Limited Liability Company or S-Corporation – Part II
  • Is There Anyone Who Doesn’t Need Estate Planning?
  • Where Can You Learn About Estate Law?
  • Report Shows Electronic Health Records Fail to Make Advance Medical Directives Available to Doctors When Needed
  • Ohio Inheritance Law for Minor Children
  • High Wealth Estate Planning
  • How to Avoid Sabotaging your Limited Liability Company or S-Corporation – Part I
  • How Long Does the Will Probate Process Take?
  • Characteristics to Look for When Choosing an Executor of a Will
  • What is the Money in a Special Needs Trust Used for?
  • How Much Should You Save for Retirement?
  • Why You Should Make Sure Your Parents Have Talked to a Medicaid Lawyer
  • Do You Need to Know the Ohio Probate Process as a Beneficiary?
  • Ohio Nursing Home Designed to Look Like 1940s Neighborhood
  • How Can You Find Out About Living Trust Benefits
  • These Problems with Trust Administration Could Harm Your Inheritance
  • How to Prepare Before Meeting with an Elder Law Attorney
  • What You Miss Out on with a DIY Will?
  • Avoiding Power of Attorney Abuse and Protecting an Estate
  • What Happens in Cincinnati Probate Court?
  • Bottom Line Answer to Two Common Questions about Living Trusts
  • Ohio Irrevocable Trust Requirements
  • Ohio Seniors See No Increase in Social Security Benefits
  • Should You Involve Your Heirs in Inheritance Planning?
  • Surprising Ways an Elder Law Attorney Helps You Prepare for Your Future
  • Why Ohio Medicaid Eligibility Rules Adversely Impact Seniors
  • What if You Don’t Name an Executor in Your Will?
  • When Should You Create a Third Party Special Needs Trust?
  • The Dire Consequences of Not Having an Asset Protection Plan
  • Benefits of Revocable Living Trusts
  • What Happens When an Executor Doesn’t Do What He’s Supposed To?
  • Home Care Costs Increase in Ohio
  • Who is Allowed to Create a Trust Under the Ohio Trust Code?
  • When Does Insurance Cover Nursing Home Costs?
  • Do You Have to Update Your Estate Plan After a Divorce?
  • Top Asset Protection Strategies to Consider
  • How Ohio Estate Taxes Could Destroy Your Family Farm
  • Do Medicaid Ohio Rules Allow for Medicaid Planning to Take Place?
  • Can You Create a Trust Without a Trust Attorney?
  • Top Ways to Avoid Ohio Probate
  • How Often Should You Change Your Estate Plan?
  • Fighting to Prevent Pension Cuts in Ohio
  • What is the Difference Between a Healthcare Power of Attorney and a Living Will?
  • How a Cincinnati Trusts Lawyer Helps You Make Sure Your Trust is Funded
  • Ohio Nursing Home Chain Grows With New Acquisitions
  • What are the Biggest Benefits to Incapacity Planning?
  • When Should a Beneficiary Get Help After a Death?
  • Advantages and Disadvantages of Revocable Trusts
  • How to Choose a Trust vs Will
  • What Are the Reasons to Create a Financial Power of Attorney?
  • How a Probate Attorney Argues Against the Validity of a Will
  • Responsibilities of an Executor During Probate
  • When Do You Have to Pay Gift Tax in Ohio?
  • What is the Difference Between a Living Will & A Last Will and Testament?
  • Now What: An Alzheimer’s Diagnosis
  • Ohio Estate Dispute Drags on for Four Years
  • Advantages and Disadvantages of Guardianship
  • What Should be Included in Your Living Will?
  • How Arbitration Agreements are Undermining Justice for Nursing Home Abuse Victims
  • Key Facts to Know About Revocable Trusts
  • Key Reasons why Asset Protection Planning is Important
  • Choosing a Trustee for a Special Needs Trust
  • At What Age Should You Start Planning Retirement?
  • Five Key Questions That Should Be a Part of Trust Planning
  • Essential Tips for Protecting Your Family Estate
  • Is a Healthcare Power of Attorney Essential If You Have a Living Will?
  • Life Insurance, Medicaid and Alzheimer’s
  • Why Consulting With a Will Lawyer is Essential if You Want to Modify Your Will
  • How Estate Taxes Could Hurt Your Family Business- And What You Can Do To Help
  • When Should Medicaid Planning Start?
  • Key Steps Involved in Inheritance Planning
  • How Old Do You Have to Be to Get Help from an Elder Law Attorney?
  • Guardianship v. Power of Attorney: Pros and Cons
  • How Probate Lawyers Help Executors
  • Who Should Hire an Estate Planning Attorney
  • Empowering Consumers in End of Life Discussions
  • How a Living Will Benefits You and Your Family Members
  • Is Medicaid in Crisis?
  • What is the Difference Between Inheritance Tax and Estate Tax?
  • First Party vs. Third Party Special Needs Trusts
  • Estate Planning Glossary
  • Asset Protection Trusts in Cincinnati: Can a Trust Protect Assets?
  • Top Reasons You Need an Estate Planning Attorney
  • How Can You Pay for Nursing Home Expenses?
  • What Retirees are Really Worried About
  • If You Have a Living Trust a Will Is Still Necessary
  • Reviewing Your Medicare Plan
  • What are Some Key Differences Between Wills and Trusts?
  • How a Special Needs Trust Preserves Eligibility for SSI Benefits?
  • Problems During the Probate Process
  • How Fear Affects Inheritance Planning
  • What Should a Trust Attorney Do To Help You?
  • Ohio News Article Warns Hopsice is Underused: Living Wills Can Provide Control Over End-of-Life Issues
  • Guardianship vs. Power of Attorney: Pros and Cons
  • Can I Still Qualify for Medicaid if I Give Away Assets?
  • Trust Administration Steps to Take After a Death Occurs
  • Medicare Covers Annual Mammograms
  • Can You Contest a Trust in Cincinnati?
  • What You Need to Understand About Digital Assets
  • Estate Planning Gone Wrong
  • Undue Influence in Elder Care
  • Republicans Divide over Medicare, Social Security Widens
  • Avoiding Estate Planning Mistakes
  • What is Ancillary Probate?
  • 4 Ways Estate Planning Serves You Now
  • What is a Trust Administrator?
  • When a Child Remains Dependent on His Parents
  • Are Reverse Mortgages Safe?
  • Medicare, Medicaid Mandatory Bundled Payments
  • Establishing Family Wealth Trusts in Ohio
  • Nursing Homes and Qualifying for Medicaid
  • Free Report: Big Medicare Changes in 2016
  • CMS Fraud Prevention Saves $820M in Improper Medicare Payments
  • An Executor Has Significant Responsibilities
  • Controlling Death
  • Rising Medical Costs and Retirement: Balance Matters
  • Millennials as Caregivers
  • Have Your Needs Changed Now That You’re Retired?
  • The Role of Power of Attorney
  • A Closer Look at Trusts
  • Protecting Your Retirement
  • The 21st Century Cures Act
  • A Different Look at Family Limited Partnerships
  • What Are ACOs?
  • Elder Justice on New Government Site
  • Your Attitude Affects Estate Planning
  • Ohio’s Well Beyond 60: The Road to Balance
  • What is a Letter of Last Instruction in Estate Planning?
  • Free Report: What Is Ohio Advance Care Planning
  • Is the Social Security Disability Program Broke?
  • What Exactly is Portability?
  • Free Report: Truths Every Family With Special Needs Children Need to Know
  • Many Benefits of Telemedicine for Seniors
  • Apology Laws
  • How Obamacare is Creating Challenges for Medicare
  • The Role of the Self-Proving Will
  • What Retirement Looks Like Today
  • ACA Benefits for Seniors
  • In the Hours After the Death of a Loved One
  • Human Nature and Dividing the Family Business
  • The SSI Restoration Act
  • What Is a Living Will in Ohio?
  • Free Report: Understanding the Many Powers of Attorney in Ohio
  • What Is the Outcome if I Die Without an Estate Plan in Ohio?
  • Dual Eligible Recipients and Better Health Care
  • New Hope for Alzheimer’s Patients?
  • Charitable Giving and Your Estate Plan
  • After Estate Planning: Tips for Seniors to Age in Place
  • Can You Retire on $500?
  • What is a Property Guardian?
  • When Divorce Interrupts Estate Planning
  • Use Caution with Your IRA Beneficiaries
  • Decanting a Trust
  • Importance of Family in Elder Care
  • Understanding Probate
  • Funeral Celebrants: When Faith is Stronger than Religion
  • I Need Social Security Benefits Now
  • After an Alzheimer’s Diagnosis
  • Legal Guardianship in Ohio
  • Congress Passes ABLE Act of 2014
  • Medicaid Declined My Coverage
  • Retirement Planning and Women
  • Financial Elder Abuse and the Power of Attorney
  • Getting Information in the Age of HIPAA
  • What is the Medicaid 5 Year Look Back Period?
  • May is Older Americans Month
  • Glen Campbell Honored for Final Body of Work
  • When Filing for Ohio Guardianship is Right
  • When Grandma Becomes Mommy
  • Marijuana and the Elderly
  • Legal Guardianship in Ohio
  • The Role of Your Power of Attorney
  • Never Reverse Mortgage Rules in Ohio
  • Elderly in Prison?
  • When Personalities Clash: Finding the Right Estate Planning Team in Ohio
  • Can A Revocable Living Trust Provide Asset Protection?
  • Understanding Ohio Phase Retirements
  • Wills, Inheritances and Beneficiaries
  • What are the Drawbacks of Probate in Ohio
  • What Is Ohio Medicaid?
  • What a Living Trust Can’t Do
  • Durable Power of Attorney: What You Need to Know
  • Estate Planning Lesson from Hollywood: Pet Trusts
  • PreNuptials and Estate Planning
  • Same Sex Couples & Estate Planning
  • Cancer Treatments: Enhanced Care or Better Reimbursements?
  • 5 Things You Should Know About Ohio Probate
  • Dual Eligible Beneficiaries: One Year In
  • Don’t be Fooled: DIY Estate Planning is Risky
  • Compare & Contrast: Revocable Living Trust & Family Wealth Trust
  • The Reason to Get a Living Will
  • What You Need to Know About Ohio Telemed Services
  • Ohio State Plan on Aging Approved
  • The Truth About Senior Health Care Costs
  • When Mom & Dad Refuse to Prepare for Retirement
  • Versatility of Special Needs Trusts
  • Ohio Elderly and Retirees Face Big Obstacles
  • Use Caution with Phased Retirement
  • Divorce and Estate Planning
  • Free Report: Federal Estate Tax – How Much Passes Tax Free in Ohio?
  • Sane Mind and Estate Planning
  • The Elder Care Polypharmacy Crisis
  • Using Your 401(k) to Buy Insurance
  • Can Robots Care for Seniors?
  • In Estate Planning, Consider a Triple Approach
  • Free Report: Choosing an Ohio Medicaid Managed Care Plan
  • Free Report: What is the Unlimited Marital Estate Tax Deduction in Ohio
  • Spotlight on Elder Abuse
  • Free Report: Why Would I Want a Revocable Living Trust in Ohio
  • Incapacity Planning Important For Gay Couples
  • Free Report: Medicaid and Medicare in Ohio: Understanding Differences
  • Art Collections Pose Challenges To Estate Planning
  • Free Report: Shoring Up Your Financial and Estate Planning in Ohio
  • Estate Planning For the Faithful
  • Family Limited Partnerships in Ohio
  • Durable Powers of Attorney: What Are the Advantages?
  • In Memoriam
  • Estate Planning For Your Gun Collection – Common Questions About Gun Trusts
  • What is the Annual Gift Tax Exclusion in Ohio
  • Free Report: What is an Elder Law Attorney in Ohio?
  • Five Frequently Asked Gift & Estate Tax Questions
  • Free Report: What Is a Living Will in Cincinnati
  • What Happens If I Die Without a Living Will in Ohio?
  • What is a Power of Attorney in Ohio?
  • What Are the Disadvantages of a Medicaid Trust in Cincinnati?
  • What Is Joint Tenancy With Right of Survivorship?
  • A Life Insurance Policy is Not a Will
  • What Is the Unlimited Marital Estate Tax Deduction?
  • Ohio Special Needs Trust: An Explanation
  • Family Limited Partnership: Asset Protection, Tax Savings
  • 3 Estate Planning Tips For the Divorcing Couple
  • Cincinnati Guardianship and Conservatorship
  • Three Advantages of Donor Advised Funds
  • Why Would Someone Need a Qualified Domestic Trust?
  • What Is a TOD or POD Account in Cincinnati?
  • How Can I Leave My Estate to My Spouse Tax Free?
  • Defining the Distinctions Between Traditional Estate Planning & Legacy Wealth Planning
  • Medicaid in Cincinnati: What Is the Medicaid Five Year Look Back?
  • What Questions Should I Ask an Elder Law Attorney?
  • The Many Roles of the Power of Attorney in Cincinnati
  • What is Ohio Doing About Elder Abuse?
  • A Different Type Of Will
  • Estate Planning And Pay On Death Accounts
  • Cincinnati Gift Tax: Can I Give Tax-Free Gifts to My Children?
  • Medicaid in Cincinnati: Is It Only for the Poor?
  • Unwanted Inheritance – Giving It Back
  • Estate Planning and Secrets
  • Disinheritance: A Difficult Decision
  • Hidden Gold and Intestate Succession
  • One Small Estate Planning Error Means Loss of Privacy for Robin Williams
  • Can an Irrevocable Trust Preserve Family Wealth?
  • Does the Probate Process in Cincinnati Present Any Drawbacks?
  • Reports: Al Davis Estate Plan Keeps Raiders In Family
  • NFL’s McNair Had No Estate Plan
  • Proposed 2015 Budget Would Reduce Estate Tax Exclusion, Raise Rate
  • Medicaid Planning in Cincinnati: What Can the Healthy Spouse Keep?
  • Who Can Create a Power of Attorney in Cincinnati?
  • Early Dementia Signs and Medicaid Planning in Cincinnati
  • Should I Create a Joint Tenancy With My Child?
  • What Is a Qualified Personal Residence Trust?
  • The Forgotten Part of Your Estate Plan: Your Digital Assets
  • New York Mining Heiress Huguette Clark’s Family Alleges Fraud In Her Estate
  • The Duration of a Validly Created Will
  • Baby Boomers And Estate Plans – Perfect Strangers
  • High Percentage Of Americans Have No Estate Plan
  • Seniors, Pets, & Planning
  • Probate Terminology 101
  • Hemsley Estate Challenge Is Instructive
  • Trustees Can Seek Help
  • How Large of an Estate Can Pass Federal Estate Tax Free in Ohio?
  • Should I Use My Unified Exclusion While I’m Living?
  • What Is an Elder Care Attorney in Ohio?
  • How Is My Property Transferred If I Die Intestate in Cincinnati Ohio?
  • The Dreaded Estate Tax
  • Peace of Mind for New Moms and Dads
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  • Estate Planning from a Woman’s Perspective
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