Archives

I’m thrilled to report a landmark settlement which will improve the quality and quantity of home care services for Medicaid enrollees receiving home and community based services. [...]

Attorney Babette Bach Esq. is looking forward to speaking on the topic of “Estate Planning Documents Everyone Needs To Have” at The Glenridge on Palmer Ranch, 7333 Scotland Way, Sarasota, FL [...]

Advance directives are documents that spell out your medical wishes for end-of-life care. Advance directives include living wills and the appointment of healthcare surrogates. As you get older it [...]

While it is common for people to put valuable assets in their living trusts, there is a long list of property that is usually excluded from trusts.   Property of Little Value Property of [...]

As our society has increasingly high divorce and remarriage rates, more individuals are faced with the task of updating or revising their Estate Planning documents to account for their change in [...]

Unlike a testamentary trust, which is set up in a will and takes effect after someone’s death, a living trust is established and funded during one’s lifetime. A revocable trust can also be [...]

Senate Bill 494, also known as the Florida Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets Act, took effect July 1, 2016. The act allows fiduciaries to manage digital assets and communications in the same way [...]

In the last blog, we discussed the issue of financial institutions refusing to honor powers of attorney and making clients sign their own institutions’ legal forms. In order to prevent this from [...]

In a recent New York Times article titled “Finding Out Your Power of Attorney Is Powerless,” the author discusses an issue that frustrates families and elder law attorneys alike —financial [...]

For individuals who believe they have a right to die on their own terms, there are certain ways to set up end-of-life documents to reflect your wishes and values. Despite being a resident in [...]