During unprecedented times of crisis, fraud tends to increase. The current COVID-19 pandemic is no exception and this time scammers are targeting residents and impersonating city officials in an attempt to steal sensitive personal information such as social security numbers. Read the full ar...
Legal resources for older adults The National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys The National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys (NAELA) is a professional association of lawyers who are committed to improving the quality of legal services provided to individuals as they get older and people who have speci...
Medicaid is a federal program that aims to provide low-income individuals and families with basic medical care. As such, there are stringent qualification requirements for people who wish to receive benefits under the program. Likewise, because of the extensive cost of the Medicaid program to the ...
A Last Will and Testament is direction to a judge administering your probate estate about your wishes to pass the property in your estate after you pass away. It is the estate planning tool with which most people are most familiar, and many people believe that is the only tool they need to wor...
If you have decided to create a trust, you must choose someone to serve as the trustee to ensure the trust is administered according to your wishes. The trustee1 is the manager of the trust assets. The rules the trustee must follow are contained in the trust document itself. The trust tells th...
Individuals with disabilities that prevent them from working and earning a living nonetheless have financial needs. On June 29, 2015 Missouri Governor Jay Nixon signed the Missouri Achieving a Better Life1 (ABLE) act into law, allowing individuals to make contributions into an account for the purp...
Contrary to what many people may believe, all of us have an estate. A person’s estate is comprised of everything that he or she owns, including his or her personal property, real estate, bank accounts, retirement accounts, and other assets. When a person passes away, these assets will be dispersed...