by Christine | Apr 17, 2012 | Elder Law, Healthcare, Marriage, Medi-Cal Long Term Care, Medicaid, Medicare |
There’s another layer of rules for families in which the person hoping to get government help paying for long-term care has a spouse who is still living independently. States are treating such “well” spouses in dramatically different ways. Marriage is a unique...
by Christine | Apr 16, 2012 | Depression, Elder Law, Medicare |
Depressed people are more likely to receive diagnoses and be treated in primary-care settings than elsewhere. Research shows that elderly people, in fact, prefer to deal with their primary-care provider on mental health issues. In that context, coverage of depression...
by Christine | Apr 14, 2012 | Estate Planning, Roth IRA, Small Business |
“I usually root for the taxpayer, but this case was an exception. When I think it borders on the self-evident that a favorable tax plan does not work and it turns out that it does, I am very embarrassed. As it turns out the Tax Court and now the Ninth Circuit agreed...
by Christine | Apr 13, 2012 | Estate Planning, Small Business, Succession Planning |
Your “estate plan,” however, should not be your farm’s succession plan. Succession planning is a “process” – “not an event,” … an estate plan is a piece of the process that is succession planning. Farm and family. Perhaps more than any other kind of industry or...
by Christine | Apr 12, 2012 | Estate Planning, Facebook, Wealth Transfer |
There’s nothing illegal about what these executives did. In fact, the Facebook registration statement and others that FORBES examined read like a playbook of how the ultra-rich and even the moderately wealthy can operate within the law to transfer vast sums and...
