Posts

• Abuse

  • Beneficiary who accepted inheritance under Will could not bring action for tortious interference
  • Privacy Laws
  • Protecting your private Information
  • Georgia Adult Protective Services Manual
  • Sometimes You Must Say No
  • The Plaintiff’s Injury Case
  • Elder Law and Special Needs Law News Roundup – 9-23-2022
  • Articles – Week of August 19, 2022
  • Elder Law and Special Needs Law News Roundup – 8-12-2022
  • Elder Law and Special Needs Law News Roundup – 7-29-2022
  • Elder Law and Special Needs Law News Roundup – 7-22-2022
  • NCEA Webinar: Abuse in Later Life
  • Elder Law and Special Needs Law News Roundup – 6-10-2022
  • Elder Law and Special Needs Law News Roundup – 5-27-2022
  • Deed found to be valid despite allegations of undue influence
  • News Roundup – 2/25/2022
  • Conviction of Caregiver for Elder Exploitation Affirmed
  • News Roundup – 2/18/2022
  • News Roundup – December 8, 2021
  • International Fraud Awareness Week
  • News Roundup – 11-9-2021
  • Robert C. Port, Super Lawyer – Selecting An Investment Advisor
  • New Twist on Grandparent Scam
  • Georgia Doctor indicted in Hall County, charged with one count of Medicaid Fraud and one count of False Statements
  • Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr Provides Update on Fight Against Robocalls
  • Combating Social Isolation, Loneliness, and Suicide Risk
  • Indictment Announced in Case Involving Elderly Victim
  • Scams and Fraud
  • World Elder Abuse Awareness Day
  • News Roundup – June 12, 2021
  • NADRC Webinar: Elder Abuse in People Living with Dementia: Considerations for Prevention, Detection and Intervention, June 23, 2021
  • Unhealthy Relationships: Psychopath and Sociopaths
  • Elder Abuse: What is it (Video)
  • Elder Abuse: BOOTH v. THE STATE, No. S21A0010 (Ga. May 3, 2021)
  • Long-term Care Facility Resident Abuse Reporting Act (Georgia)
  • Disabled Adults and Elder Persons Protection Act (Georgia)
  • Georgia Protection of Elder Persons Act of 2000
  • VIDEO: PBS Video on Elder Victims: Abused, Exploited, Alone
  • Get the Facts on Elder Abuse
  • In re Conservatorship of Burnette, 2006 Tenn. App. LEXIS 756 (Tenn. Ct. App. 2006)
  • Senate Special Committee Aging: Fighting Elder Fraud: Progress Made, Work to Be Done, January 16, 2019

• Administrative Law

  • Updates to Nursing Home Quality of Care Regulations
  • Federal Nursing Home Quality of Care Regulations
  • Superior Court Review of Georgia ALJ Decision
  • State May Recoup Medicaid Benefits Incorrectly Paid
  • Administrative decisions and collateral estoppel
  • Nursing Home Quality of Care Regulations Amended to Remove Expired COVID-19 Provisions
  • Standing in Medicaid and Other Cases
  • No Right to Fair Hearing Unless You Complain About Something
  • Selected Georgia Medicaid Decisions
  • Pre-Hearing Conferences in Medicaid Cases
  • Verification for Medicaid Applications
  • Requesting a Medicaid Fair Hearing
  • Correcting the Damage Done Before You Got the Medicaid File
  • Medicaid decisions should be available to the public
  • Medicaid Applicants Have a Right to a hearing if eligibility is denied, improperly determined, delayed or terminated
  • How to Communicate with Courts, Parties in Litigation and Others
  • Conservatorship litigation made life insurance policy inaccessible
  • Nursing home lacks standing to request fair hearing unless it is authorized representative
  • Administrative Law: Who Decides What the Law Means?
  • Appeal Route From Article 6 Probate Court is to Court of Appeals
  • Medicaid: Standard of Review in Appellate Cases & Interpretation of Statutes, Regulations and Manuals

• Alzheimer's Disease and Dementia

  • Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model for Dementia Care
  • Virtual Dementia Tour
  • Do Hearing Aids Slow Mental Decline and Dementia? A New Study Says They Do
  • Leqembi Approved by FDA
  • Elder Law Mishmash June 2023
  • Elder Law and Special Needs Law News Roundup – 9-9-2022
  • Articles – Week of September 9, 2022
  • Articles – Week of September 2, 2022
  • Articles – Week of August 26, 2022
  • Living in your head (aka social media) instead of the real world can be dangerous
  • Articles – Week of July 29, 2022
  • Elder Law and Special Needs Law News Roundup – 6-24-2022
  • News Roundup – 4/15/2022
  • News Roundup – 3/11/2022
  • News Roundup – 3/4/2022
  • News Roundup 1-21-2022
  • AFA Presents New Rules for End of Life Care
  • News Round-up – October 5, 2021
  • Basics of Long-Term Care 2021
  • News Round-up – 9-24-2021
  • News Round-up September 13, 2021
  • News Round-up – August 30, 2021
  • Dementia Friendly Home
  • News Roundup, July 19, 2021
  • Alzheimer’s: 100 Years of Progress – How Far Have We Come?
  • Alzheimer’s Warning Signs with Examples
  • NGA Webinar: Is it Alzheimer’s or Normal Aging (August 26, 2021)
  • Alzheimer’s Disease: Diagnosing and Stages
  • The Apartment Preview – April 30, 2021
  • Brain’s waste removal system may offer path to better outcomes in Alzheimer’s therapy
  • Lack of sleep in middle age may increase dementia risk
  • Advancing the Science Alzheimer’s and Dementia Research, Rebecca Edelmayer, PhD
  • VIDEO: Understanding Alzheimer’s and Dementia
  • Dr. Gary Small, Dr. Karen Miller, Keeping Your Mind Sharp, UCLA Longevity Center (2020-06-03)
  • UCLA Alzheimer’s and Dementia Care Video series
  • The Nursing Home Decision – Memory and Alzheimer’s Disease
  • Dementia and Alzheimer’s Disease 12/18/19 (UCLA)
  • Alzheimer’s Foundation of America: Educating America Tour: Wyoming April 15 @ 10:00 am – 12:30 pm MDT
  • 36 Hour Day
  • Dr. Peter Rabins, Author of the 36 Hours Day
  • Caregiver Guilt – Memory and Alzheimer’s Disease

• Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)

  • NIH New Release: Scientists discover a new genetic form of ALS in children

• Announcements

  • NDI Webinar: Seeing Eye Dog and Therapy Animal Services

• Arthritis

• Asset Protection Planning

  • New Article Discussing Medicaid Enrollment and Wealth Transfers

• Assisted Living

  • Long-Term Care Partnership Policies
  • Washington Post Reports Assisted Living Facilities Using Algorithm to Set Staffing Levels
  • New Report cites dangers in relying on data regarding quality of care in Assisted Living Facilities
  • Cost of Long-Term Care
  • Assisted Living Facility Not Entitled to Summary Judgment Where Cognitively Impaired Resident Filmed Nude
  • Opting Out of Arbitration Agreements
  • Should You Buy Long-Term Care Insurance
  • Elder Law and Special Needs Law News Roundup – 6-17-2022
  • Podcast on Nursing Home Neglect: Preventing It and Getting Help
  • News Roundup – 2/11/2022
  • News Roundup 2-4-2022
  • Role of a Treating Physician for Long-Term Care Residents
  • Survey: How do you pay for long-term care?
  • Georgia Co-Age Announces 2022 Legislative Priorities
  • Researching Health Care Providers and Filing Complaints Against Them (Links)
  • John Oliver Takes on Long-Term Care Industry
  • Harrier v. Oakwood Skilled Nursing Center-Trenton & Balmoral, Inc., 2007 Mich. App. LEXIS 903 (Mich. Ct. App. 2007)
  • Guernsey v. Country Living Pers. Care Home(s), Inc., 2006 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 31450 (D. Pa. 2006)
  • Giordano v. Atria Assisted Living, Va. Beach, LLC, 429 F. Supp. 2d 732 (D. Va. 2006)
  • Ostroff v. Alterra Healthcare Corp., 433 F. Supp. 2d 538 (D. Pa. 2006)
  • Emeritus Corp. v. Highsmith, 211 S.W.3d 321 (Tex. App. 2006)

• Attorney-client privilege

  • Right to Privacy: Without My Consent
  • United States ex rel. Parikh v. Premera Blue Cross, 2006 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 90814 (D. Wash. 2006)

• Autism

  • Eye Tracking of Social Visual Engagement Predicts Autism Diagnosis

• Business Law

  • Am I required to register my business with FinCEN?

• Cardiovascular disease

• Caregiving

  • Service Animals and the ADA
  • Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990: The Basics
  • Award of Custody to Grandparent Overturned
  • Medicaid’s Refusal to Provide 24/7 Care in the Community Might be Discrimination
  • Why People Do What They Do?: A Desire for Certainty
  • Wednesday Morning Walk – July 19, 2023
  • Upcoming Senior Events in Northwest Georgia
  • Relationships and Information Overload
  • Getting Health Care Directives to Your Doctors FAST
  • Federal Holidays
  • Employees versus Independent Contractors
  • Wednesday Morning Walk, May 17, 2023
  • You Are Enough
  • VA Announces Legal and Financial Planning Services are Now Available for Family Caregivers
  • Biden Whitehouse Issues Executive Order to Increase Access to Care and to Support Caregivers
  • VA posts regarding its Comprehensive Assistance for Family Caregivers
  • Ruminations on Care and Care Planning
  • What is CareTree?
  • Advocates Academy: My Dream
  • ABLE Accounts
  • New Hospice Resource
  • The Dignity Account
  • Elder Law and Special Needs Law News Roundup – 10-21-2022
  • Elder Law and Special Needs Law News Roundup – 10-14-2022
  • Elder Law and Special Needs Law News Roundup – 9-30-2022
  • Chronic Care Model and Patient Advocacy
  • HHS Delivers First National Strategy to Support Family Caregivers
  • Update on Talevski v. Health and Hospital Corporation of Marion County
  • Elder Law and Special Needs Law News Roundup – 9-16-2022
  • Cognitive Rehab May Help Older Adults Clear Covid-Related Brain Fog
  • Elder Law and Special Needs Law News Roundup – 9-2-2022
  • How can I contact Georgia Medicaid?
  • Elder Law and Special Needs Law News Roundup – 8-26-2022
  • Can I get paid to be a caregiver for a family member?
  • Elder Law and Special Needs Law News Roundup – 8-19-2022
  • Can a nursing home resident leave for a family meal while covered under Medicare days?
  • Resources for Older Veterans
  • Elder Law and Special Needs Law News Roundup – 7-15-2022
  • Elder Law and Special Needs Law News Roundup – 7-8-2022
  • Elder Law and Special Needs Law News Roundup – 7-1-2022
  • Elder Law and Special Needs Law News Roundup – 5-20-2022
  • Elder Law and Special Needs Law News Roundup – 5-13-2022
  • News Roundup – 5-6-2022
  • News Roundup – 4-22-2022
  • No constitutional right to assisted suicide
  • News Roundup – 4/8/2022
  • News Roundup – 4/1/2022
  • News Roundup – 3/25/2022
  • News Roundup – 1-31-2022
  • Information About Criminals, Inmates and Sex Offenders
  • 2 New Podcasts from Hamilton Medical Center
  • News Roundup 1-3-2022
  • Form: Health Values Questionnaire
  • News Roundup – December 16, 2021
  • Arc of the United States Virtual Program Library
  • HIPAA Permitted Disclosures
  • Olmstead Decision
  • End-of-Life and the Right to Refuse Treatment: Quinlan through Schiavo
  • Do Not Resuscitate Orders (DNRs)
  • Right to Nursing Home Records and Medical Information
  • News Roundup – November 21, 2021
  • Rosalynn Carter Institute for Caregivers Celebrates 2021 Caregiver of the Year Awards
  • Nursing Home Visitation Resumes
  • Gun Laws and Related Information
  • Celebrating Special Occasions with a flair
  • Decision-Making Supports for Special Needs Individuals and Others Needing Assistance
  • Uncertain, helpless and scared
  • PBS Series: Future of Work
  • Cameras in Nursing Homes: Can a Resident Install a Camera in her Room in a Nursing Home?
  • Questions Asked in a Typical Guardianship Case
  • Georgia Statutory Advance Directive for Health Care Form
  • Georgia Statutory Power of Attorney Form
  • Apps to Help with PTSD
  • Georgia Guardianship Code Grants a Guardian Authority to Enter Into a Binding Pre-Dispute Arbitration Agreement
  • M.K. v. Division of Medical Assistance, Superior Court of New Jersey, Appellate Division (2016)
  • Arc Posts Videos Overviewing Special Needs Trusts and ABLE Accounts
  • Georgia Public Broadcasting to air special on former President Jimmy Carter
  • Home Modifications for Seniors and Individuals with Special Needs
  • End-of-Life Decision Making – Upcoming Webinar on September 14, 2021
  • News Roundup – June 30, 2021
  • Online Care Partner Support Series – July 1, 2021 – July 29, 2021
  • Happy Birthday Gibbs and Ali!!
  • Caregiver child exception to penalty on transfer of the home
  • Webinar: Home and Community Based Services – What Are They and Why They Are Important, June 9, 3pm ET
  • NORC Webinar regarding Tips for Identifying Trauma, Potential Abuse and Supporting Nursing Home Residents, June 18, 2021
  • Covid 19 Toolkits and Checklists
  • Filial responsibility – Can I be responsible for my parent’s medical debt?
  • News Roundup – 5-31-2021 (Including link to the National Memorial Day Concert)
  • How to Set Boundaries as a Caregiver
  • NIH Special Issue of News in Health
  • Religious End-of-Life Values
  • What Family Caregivers Need: Findings from Listening Sessions
  • Medicare vs. Medicaid
  • Resources at the Office of Financial Protection for Older Americans
  • Phone App Could Screen Children at risk for Autism
  • RAISE Family Caregivers Act
  • Costs of Aging Handbook
  • 10 Things to Know about Medicaid: Setting the Facts Straight
  • RCI Engages in Policy Discussions as White House Proposes Historic Care Infrastructure Plan
  • Advocacy Groups Call for End to Medicaid Estate Recovery
  • Shared Decision-Making with Diverse Patients
  • Why some residential caregivers call their jobs ‘indentured servitude’
  • How Dementia Affects Language Skills, Teepa Snow (2017)
  • Covid 19 law sparks dialogue on nursing home alternatives
  • Session 4 Viki Kind M A Danger and Safety When Creating the Care Plan Part 2
  • Session 3 Viki Kind M A Danger and Safety When Creating the Care Plan Part 1
  • Rosalynn Carter Institute Caregiving
  • Caregiving in America: A Chronic Disease Day Livestream Event
  • Caregiver Coalition Virtual Workshop: The Legal Aspects of Caregiving
  • Online Caregiver Training 2.0 with HCAOA | CareAcademy Webinar Series
  • VA Caregiver Questionnaire and Eligibility
  • Five Tips for Improving a Difficult Caregiving Day
  • UCLA Caregiver Training: Wandering
  • UCLA Caregiver Training: Sundowning
  • UCLA Caregiver Training: Sleep Disturbances
  • UCLA Caregiver Training: Sexually Inappropriate Behaviors
  • UCLA Caregiver Training: Repetitive Behaviors
  • UCLA Caregiver Training: Refusal to Take Medication
  • UCLA Caregiver Training: Refusal to Bathe
  • UCLA Caregiver Training: Home Safety
  • UCLA Caregiver Training: Hallucinations
  • UCLA Caregiver Training: Depression/Apathy
  • UCLA Caregiver Training: Agitation and Anxiety
  • UCLA Caregiver Training: Aggressive Language/Behavior
  • UCLA Caregiver Training Program: Introduction
  • Phrases to Learn for Caregivers
  • Caregiving 101: Exploring the Complexities of Family Caregiving
  • Pat Summitt Quotes
  • Patient Self-Determination Act, 42 U.S. Code § 1395cc(f) & 42 U.S. Code § 1396a(w)
  • What does caregiving cost businesses?
  • Dog Trainers

• Cases

  • Medicaid’s “any circumstance” test for trusts
  • Promise of life estate, based on oral promise, could be enforced
  • Georgia Court of Appeals Revisits the Preponderance-of-the-Evidence Standard
  • Settlement of Probate Dispute Enforced As Written
  • What is Undue Influence?
  • Supreme Court Rules Nursing Home Resident Rights Are Enforceable Under Section 1983
  • Statute of Limitations on Legal Malpractice Claim Runs from Last Action
  • Declaratory Judgment Denying All Future Claims by Non-Parties Exceeded Court’s Authority
  • Probate Court had jurisdiction to construe consent order in the context of Petition to Settle Accounts
  • Nursing Home Cases: Sexual Assault
  • Nursing Home Cases: Qui Tam Actions
  • Nursing Home Cases: Summary Judgment
  • Nursing Home Cases: Motions for Default
  • Nursing Home Cases: Motions to Dismiss
  • Nursing Home Cases: Motion Practice
  • Nursing Home Cases: Jury Instructions
  • Nursing Home Cases: Judgments, Avoidance, Collection
  • Nursing Home Cases: Insurance
  • Nursing Home Cases: Discovery Disputes
  • Nursing Home Cases: Damages
  • Nursing Home Cases: Corporate Liability (Piercing Veil, Direct Liability)
  • Nursing Home Cases: Compliance with Medicare & Medicaid Regulations
  • Nursing Home Cases: Arbitration
  • Medicaid Trusts: Cases
  • Nursing Home Litigation: Cases
  • Medicare Secondary Payer: Cases
  • Tax Cases
  • Guardianships and Conservatorships: Cases
  • Right to Die (or Live): Cases
  • Probate Litigation
  • Medicaid: Cases
  • Trusts: Cases
  • Medicaid: Community Spouse Income Allowance
  • Medicaid: Annuities
  • Medicaid: General Principles Explained by the Courts
  • Cap on noneconomic damages in Medical Malpractice Case was unconstitutional
  • In Terrorem Clause: Giller v. Slosberg (Ga. Ct. App. April 27, 2021)
  • Unnecessary Institutionalization Prohibited: OLMSTEAD V. L. C. (98-536) 527 U.S. 581 (1999)
  • Cooper v. Trust Company Bank, 257 Ga. 272 (1987)
  • Henderson v. Collins, 245 Ga. 776 (1980)
  • McElrath v. Citizens & Southern Nat’l Bank, 229 Ga. 20 (1972)
  • What the Courts have said about the Medicaid Program
  • In re the Estate of: Francis E. Barg, a/k/a Francis Edward Barg, 722 N.W.2d 492; 2006 Minn. App. LEXIS 148 (Ct. App. Minn. October 17, 2006)
  • Applicants sought MSJ and Injunction where eligibility was denied due to annuity structure
  • Penalty is Imposed First Day of Month During or After Assets are Transferred for Less than Fair Market Value
  • No transfer penalty because gift to trust was 36 month look-back applied and it had expired
  • Norwest Bank N.D. v. Doth, 159 F.3d 328 (8th Cir. 1998)
  • Sullivan v. County of Suffolk, 174 F.3d 282 (2nd Cir. 1999)
  • Reames v. Oklahoma ex rel. Okla Health Care Authority, 411 F.3d 1164 (10th Cir. 2005)
  • Bergman v. N.D. Department of Human Services (In re Estate of Bergman), 688 N.W. 2d 187 (N.D. 2004)
  • State Dep’t of Human Res. v. Estate of Ullmer, 87 P.3d 1045 (Nev. 2004)
  • Hines v. Dep’t of Pub. Aid, 221 Ill. 2d 222 (Ill. 2006)
  • Stafford v. Idaho Dep’s of Health & Welfare (In re Stafford), 181 P.3d 456 (Id 2008)
  • James v. Richman, 465 F. Supp. 2d 395 (M.D. Pa. 2006)
  • Greene v. Dep’t of Cmty. Health, 293 Ga. App. 201(2008)
  • Cruver v. Mitchell, 289 Ga. App. 145 (2008)
  • Gladowski v. Dep’t of Family & Children Servs., 281 Ga. App. 299 (2006)
  • Crittenden v. White, 346 Ga. App. 179 (2018)
  • Cook v. Glover, 295 Ga. 495 (2014)
  • Barber v. Holmes, 2007 Ga. LEXIS 793 (Ga. 2007)
  • Georgia Department of Community Health v. Medders, 292 Ga. App. 439, 2008 Ga. App. LEXIS 804 (2008)
  • Medalie v. Bayer Corp., 2007 U.S. App. LEXIS 29859 (8th Cir. 2007)
  • Am. Econ. Ins. Co. v. Jackson, 2007 U.S. App. LEXIS 3232 (8th Cir. 2007)
  • Cline v. Living Ctrs. of Tex., Inc., 2007 Tex. App. LEXIS 2044 (Tex. App. 2007)
  • Walter M. Clark v. Tirr Rehab. Ctr., 2007 Tex. App. LEXIS 2024 (Tex. App. 2007)
  • In re Estate of Anderson, 2007 Tenn. App. LEXIS 705 (2007)
  • In re Estate of Henkel, 2007 Tenn. App. LEXIS 704 (2007)
  • Necessary v. Life Care Ctrs. of America Inc., 2007 Tenn. App. LEXIS 698 (2007)
  • Ward v. Nat’l Healthcare Corp., 2007 Tenn. App. LEXIS 695 (2007)
  • Conley v. Life Care Ctrs. of Am., Inc., 2007 Tenn. App. LEXIS 13 (Tenn. Ct. App. 2007)
  • Owens v. Nat’l Health Corp., 2007 Tenn. LEXIS 1003 (2007)
  • Sullivan ex rel. Wrongful Death Beneficiaries of Sullivan v. Chattanooga Medical Investors, LP, 221 S.W.3d 506; 2007 Tenn. LEXIS 361 (Tenn. 2007)
  • Glass v. Continuing Care Nursing and Reh. Ctr., 2007 Phila. Ct. Com. Pl. LEXIS 79 (Phila. Ct. Com. Pl. 2007)
  • Hall v. Episcopal Hosp. Corp., 2007 Phila. Ct. Com. Pl. LEXIS 38 (Phila. Com. P. LEXIS 2007)
  • Holmes v. Nightingale, 2007 OK 15 (Okla. 2007)
  • Manley v. Personacare of Ohio, 2007 Ohio 343 (Ohio Ct. App. 2007)
  • Hayes v. Premier Living, Inc., 2007 N.C. App. LEXIS 370 (N.C. Ct. App. 2007)
  • Covenant Health Rehab of Picayune, L.P. v. Brown, 2007 Miss. LEXIS 43 (Miss. 2007)
  • Sheridan v. West Bloomfield Nursing & Convalescent Ctr., 2007 Mich. App. LEXIS 613 (Mich. Ct. App. 2007)
  • Miller v. Cotter, 2007 Mass. LEXIS 189 (Mass. 2007)
  • Sepulvado v. Toledo Nursing Center, Inc., 2007 La. App. LEXIS 1098 (3rd Circuit 2007)
  • Sharp v. Belle Maison Nursing Home, Inc., 2007 La. App. LEXIS 541 (La. Ct. App. 2007)
  • Mitchell v. Rehab. Inst. of New Orleans, Inc., 2007 La. App. LEXIS 473 (La. Ct. App. 2007)
  • Barnhill v. Iowa District Court of Polk County (Iowa Ct. App. 2007)
  • Forsythe v. Clark USA, Inc., 2007 Ill. LEXIS 434 (Ill. 2007)
  • In re Estate of Margretta K. Brice, 2007 Ga. App. LEXIS 1224 (2007)
  • Barnum v. Coastal Health Services, Inc., 2007 Ga. App. LEXIS 1174 (Ga. Ct. App. 2007)
  • Williams v. Alvista Healthcare Ctr., Inc., 2007 Ga. App. LEXIS 137 (Ga. Ct. App. 2007)
  • Lewis v. Van Anda, 2007 Ga. LEXIS 845 (2007)
  • Tuttle v. Ryan, 2007 Ga. LEXIS 842 (2007)
  • Avante Villa at Jacksonville Beach, Inc. v. Estate of Payson, 2007 Fla. App. LEXIS 8716 (Ct. App. 1st Dist. June 5, 2007)
  • Extendicare, Inc. v. Estate of McGillen, 2007 Fla. App. LEXIS 6779 (Fla. Ct. App. 5th Dist. 2007)
  • Fletcher v. Huntington Place, 2007 Fla. App. LEXIS 4681 (Fla. App. 2007)
  • Estate of Jones v. Mariner Health Care of Deland, Inc., 2007 Fla. App. LEXIS 3857 (Fla. Ct. App. 2007)Estate of Jones v. Mariner Health Care of Deland, Inc., 2007 Fla. App. LEXIS 3857 (Fla. Ct. App. 2007)
  • Hilltopper Holding Corp. v. Estate of Cutchin, 2007 Fla. App. LEXIS 3440 (Fla. 2nd DCA 2007)
  • Alterra Healthcare Corp. v. Estate of Linton, 2007 Fla. App. LEXIS 2727 (Fla. 1st DCA 2007)
  • Martin v. Lafon Nursing Facility of the Holy Family, Inc., 2007 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 85956 (E.D. La. 2007)
  • Huggins v. Four Seasons Nursing Ctrs., Inc., 2007 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 78662 (N.D. Okla. 2007)
  • Gulledge v. Trinity Mission Health & Rehab of Holly Springs, LLC, 2007 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 78247 (N.D. Miss. 2007)
  • Rhodes v. Mariner Health Care (In re Rhodes), 2007 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 32486 (S.D. Miss. 2007)
  • James v. Nocona Gen. Hosp., 2007 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 31130 (N.D. Texas 2007)
  • Harmon v. St. Augustine Manor, 2007 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 25504 (N.D. Ohio 2007)
  • Owens v. Nexion Health at Gilmer, Inc., 2007 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 22522 (D. Tex. 2007)
  • Fulton v. Theradyne Corp., 2007 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 21947 (D. Ill. 2007)
  • Miller v. Center for Diagnostic Imaging, 2007 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 17869 (W.D. WA 2007)
  • Brown v. Sun Healthcare Group, Inc., 2007 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 12915 (E.D. Tenn. 2007)
  • Stalley v. Delta Health Group, Inc., 2007 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 5845 (D. Fla. 2007)
  • Prime Ins. Syndicate, Inc. v. Damaso, 2007 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 4516 (D. Nev. 2007)
  • Ostrom v. Manorcare Health Servs., 2007 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 4106 (D. Mich. 2007)
  • Martin v. Lafon Nursing Facility of the Holy Family, Inc., 2007 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 3644 (D. La. 2007)
  • Fireman’s Fund Ins. Co. v. Evergreene Props. of N.C., LLC, 2007 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 571 (D. Ark. 2007)
  • Amaro v. Northbridge Health Care Ctr., Inc., 2007 Conn. Super. LEXIS 454 (Conn. Super. Ct. 2007)
  • Flores v. Evergreen at San Diego, LLC, 2007 Cal. App. LEXIS 348 (Cal. Ct. App. 2007)
  • Hogan v. Country Villa Health Services, 2007 Cal. App. LEXIS 289 (Cal. Ct. App. 2007)
  • Beverly Enterprises-Arkansas, Inc. v. Jarrett, 2007 Ark. App. LEXIS 100 (Ark. Ct. App. 2007)
  • James Ehl and Vincent Pharmacy, Inc. v. DiChiara, 2007 Ala. LEXIS 277 (Ala. 2007)
  • Kindred Healthcare, Inc. v. Peckler, 2006 WL 1360282 (Ky. 2006)
  • Baumgarten v. City View Nursing Home, 2006 WI App 78 (Wis. Ct. App. 2006)
  • Bartholomew v. Wis. Patients Comp. Fund, 2006 WI 91 (Wis. 2006)
  • Wolf v. A+ Loving Care, Inc., 2006 Va. Cir. LEXIS 272 (Va. Cir. Ct. 2006)
  • United States ex rel. Szymczak v. Covenant Healthcare Sys., 2006 U.S. App. LEXIS 32112 (7th Cir. 2006)
  • Lakeridge Villa Health Care Ctr. v. Leavitt, 2006 U.S. App. LEXIS 27338 (6th Cir. 2006)
  • Pisasale v. Ensign Group, Inc., 2006 Tex. App. LEXIS 7983 (Tex. App. 2006)
  • Gray v. Woodville Health Care Ctr., 2006 Tex. App. LEXIS 6904 (Tex. App. 2006)
  • In re Crestcare Nursing & Rehab. Ctr., 2006 Tex. App. LEXIS 1436 (Tex. App. 2006)
  • In re Estate of Smith, 2006 Tenn. App. LEXIS 715 (2006)
  • Burk v. RHA/Sullivan, Inc., 2006 Tenn. App. LEXIS 637 (Tenn. Ct. App. 2006)
  • Howard v. Kindred Nursing Ctrs. Ltd. P’ship, 2006 Tenn. App. LEXIS 521 (Tenn. Ct. App. 2006)
  • Owens v. Nat’l Health Corp., 2006 Tenn. App. LEXIS 448 (Tenn. Ct. App. 2006)
  • Estate of Moore v. Nat’l Health Realty, Inc., 2006 Tenn. App. LEXIS 166 (Tenn. Ct. App. 2006)
  • Sullivan v. Chattanooga Med. Investors, LP, 2006 Tenn. App. LEXIS 55 (Tenn. Ct. App. 2006)
  • Sloan v. Nat’l Healthcorp, L.P., 2006 Tenn. App. LEXIS 580 (Tenn. Ct. App. 2006)
  • Freed v. Geisinger Med. Ctr., 2006 PA Super 274 (Pa. Super. Ct. 2006)
  • Bruner v. Timberlane Manor L.P., 2006 OK 90 (Okla. 2006)
  • Nursing Home Litigation: Adams v. Gables at Green Pastures Nursing Home, 2006 Ohio 6856 (Ohio Ct. App. 2006)
  • Hanson v. Valley View Nursing & Rehab. Ctr., 2006 Ohio 3815 (Ohio Ct. App. 2006)
  • Smith v. Manor Care of Canton, Inc., 2006 Ohio 1182 (Ohio Ct. App. 2006)
  • Chiles v. D & J Serv., Inc., 2006 NY Slip Op 8333 (N.Y. App. Div. 2006)
  • Everett v. Loretto Adult Cmty., Inc., 2006 NY Slip Op 6954 (N.Y. App. Div. 2006)
  • Giandana v. Providence Rest Nursing Home, 2006 NY Slip Op 4189 (N.Y. App. Div. 2006)
  • Bullard v. St. Barnabas Hosp., 2006 NY Slip Op 1519 (N.Y. App. Div. 2006)
  • Rosenblatt v. Windsor Park Nursing Home, Inc., 2006 NY Slip Op 3069, 1 (N.Y. App. Div. 2006)
  • Estate of Virginia Ramirez, 2006 N.Y. Misc. LEXIS 4587; 236 N.Y.L.J. 107 (N.Y. Misc. 2006)
  • Reed v. Missouri Department of Social Services, Family Support Div.,193 S.W.3d 839; 2006 Mo. App. LEXIS 879 (Mo. Ct. App., E.D., 2006)
  • Guillot v. Lecc-Baton Rouge, Inc., 2006 La. App. LEXIS 2923 (La. Ct. App. 2006)
  • Sharp v. Parkview Care Ctr., Inc., 2006 La. App. LEXIS 2128 (La. Ct. App. 2006)
  • Atkinson v. Manor Care Health Servs. 2006 Iowa App. LEXIS 744 (Iowa Ct. App. 2006)
  • Gaddis v. Chatsworth Health Care Ctr., Inc., 282 Ga. App. 615 (Ga. Ct. App. 2006)
  • Arch Plaza, Inc. v. Perpall, 2006 Fla. App. LEXIS 18693 (Fla. 3rd DCA 2006)
  • Buie v. Mariner Health Care, Inc., 2006 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 94139 (D. Miss. 2006)
  • Complete Healthcare Res. – E., Inc. v. Pac. Life Ins. Co., 2006 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 90794 (D. Pa. 2006)
  • Medical Liab. Mut. Ins. Co. v. Alan Curtis Enters. 2006 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 89180 (D. Ark. 2006)
  • Healthcare, LLC v. Leavitt, 2006 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 88906 (D. Ky. 2006)
  • Jones v. Lexington Manor Nursing Ctr., LLC., 2006 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 88755 (D. Miss. 2006)
  • Washburn v. Beverly Enterprises-Georgia, Inc., 2006 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 88628 (S.D. Ga. 2006)
  • McCauley v. Highland Nursing & Rehab. Ctr., 2006 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 85627 (D. Mo. 2006)
  • Essex Ins. Co. v. Parnell, 2006 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 79080 (D. Miss. 2006)
  • Bennett v. Beverly Enters., 2006 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 75561 (D. Miss. 2006)
  • Beam v. Nexion Health Mgmt., 2006 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 71732 (D. Tex. 2006)
  • Rucker v. Indianola Health & Rehab. Ctr. 2006 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 71192 (D. Miss. 2006)
  • N. Mont. Care Ctr. v. Leavitt, 2006 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 69898 (D. Mont. 2006)
  • Gray v. Mariner Health Cent., Inc., 2006 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 65725 (D. Miss. 2006)
  • Certain Underwriters at Lloyds, London v. Magnolia Mgmt. Corp., 2006 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 60635 (D. Miss. 2006)
  • Moorman v. HQM of Spencer County, Inc., 2006 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 60198 (D. Ky. 2006)
  • Essex Ins. Co. v. Greenville Convalescent Home, Inc., 2006 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 56502 (D. Miss. 2006)
  • Evanston Ins. Co. v. Centennial Healthcare Corp., 2006 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 55385 (D. Ga. 2006)
  • Ohio Cas. Group v. Am. Int’l Specialty Lines Ins. Co., 2006 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 52070 (D.N.Y. 2006)
  • Carlson v. Extendicare Health Servs., 2006 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 51351 (D. Minn. 2006)
  • W. World Ins. Co. v. Resurrection Catholic Mission of the S., Inc., 2006 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 51119 (D. Ala. 2006)
  • Ray v. Heritage Care, Inc., 2006 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 50305 (D.D.C. 2006)
  • Lewis v. Delta Health Group, Inc., 2006 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 50111 (D. Miss. 2006)
  • Mariner Health Care, Inc. v. Weeks, 2006 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 50106 (D. Miss. 2006)
  • Manor Care, Inc. v. First Specialty Ins. Corp., 2006 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 48249 (D. Ohio 2006)
  • Perry v. Manor Care, Inc., 2006 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 47861 (D. Pa. 2006)
  • Mariner Health Care, Inc., v. Ferguson, 2006 U.S. Dist LEXIS 47021 (N.D. Miss. 2006)
  • Hall v. Trisun, 2006 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 45676 (D. Tex. 2006)
  • Estate of McAdams v. Mariner Healthcare Mgmt. Co., 2006 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 43679 (D. Miss. 2006)
  • Roberts v. Magnolia Healthcare, Inc., 2006 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 43081 (D. Miss. 2006)
  • Mariner Healthcare, Inc. v. King, 2006 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 40782 (D. Miss. 2006)
  • Emplr. Reinsurance Corp. v. Laurier Indem. Co., 2006 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 40451 (D. Fla. 2006)
  • Williams v. Nat’l Heritage Realty Inc., 2006 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 39889 (D. Miss. 2006)
  • JPMorgan Chase & Co. v. Conegie, 2006 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 38937 (D. Miss. 2006)
  • Mariner Healthcare, Inc. v. Green, 2006 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 37479 (D. Miss. 2006)
  • Nursing Home Litigation, Labor Dispute: Aguayo ex rel. NLRB v. S&F Mkt. St. Healthcare LLC, 2006 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 36470 (D. Cal. 2006)
  • Branco v. Life Care Ctrs. of Am., Inc., 2006 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 28677 (D. Wash. 2006)
  • Nursing Home Litigation, Jurisdiction: Adams v. Pathfinder Healthcare, 2006 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 27774 (D. Ark. 2006)
  • Kelso v. Levitt, 2006 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 26695 (D. Mo. 2006)
  • United States v. Bell, 2006 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 23031 (D. Pa. 2006)
  • Estate of Lee v. Ctr. Pointe HRC, LLC, 2006 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 12344 (D. Fla. 2006)
  • Beverly Enterprises-Mississippi, Inc. v. Powell, 2006 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 8739 (D. Miss. 2006)
  • Rivera v. Simonetti, 2006 Conn. Super. LEXIS 2732 (Conn. Super. Ct. 2006)
  • Diaz v. PARCC Health Care, 2006 Conn. Super. LEXIS 286 (Conn. Super. Ct. 2006)
  • Gibson v. Superior Court of California for Los Angeles, 2006 Cal. App. Unpub. LEXIS 8922 (California Unpublished Opinions 2006)
  • Marchesano v. Dekkers, 2006 Cal. App. Unpub. LEXIS 4356 (California Unpublished Opinions 2006)
  • Leong v. Woods, 2006 Cal. App. Unpub. LEXIS 230 (California Unpublished Opinions 2006)
  • Beverly Enters.-Ark., Inc. v. Circuit Court, 2006 Ark. LEXIS 426 (Ark. 2006)
  • Deaver v. Faucon Props., 2006 Ark. LEXIS 442 (Ark. 2006)
  • Riverside Hosp., Inc. v. Johnson, 272 Va. 518 (Va. 2006)
  • McLain v. Mariner Health Care, Inc., 279 Ga. App. 410 (Ga. Ct. App. 2006)
  • Mosley v. Warnock, 282 Ga. 488 (2007)
  • Wilton v. Illini Manors, Inc. 364 Ill. App. 3d 704 (Ill. App. Ct. 2006)
  • Madison v. Babcock Ctr., Inc., 371 S.C. 123 (S.C. 2006)
  • RLI Ins. Co. v. Phila. Indem. Ins. Co., 421 F. Supp. 2d 956 (D. Tex. 2006)
  • United States v. 524 Cheek Rd., 425 F. Supp. 2d 704 (D.N.C. 2006)
  • Glover v. Liggett Group, Inc., 459 F.3d 1304 (11th Cir. 2006)
  • Delta Health Group, Inc. v. United States HHS, 459 F. Supp. 2d 1207 (D. Fla. 2006)
  • James v. Richman, 465 F. Supp. 2d 395 (D. Pa. 2006)
  • Hartford Accident & Indem. Co. v. Beaver, 466 F.3d 1289 (11th Cir. 2006)
  • United States ex rel. Atkins v. McInteer, 470 F.3d 1350 (11th Cir. 2006)
  • Redwood v. Dobson, 476 F.3d 462 (7th Cir. 2007)
  • Buckeye Check Cashing, Inc. v. Cardegna, 546 U.S. 440 (U.S. 2006)
  • Ark. HHS v. Ahlborn, 547 U.S. 268 (U.S. 2006)
  • Strine v. Commonwealth Med. Care Availability & Reduction of Error Fund, 586 Pa. 395 (Pa. 2006)
  • Alston v. Britthaven, Inc., 628 S.E.2d 824 (N.C. Ct. App. 2006)
  • Davis v. Mound View Health Care, Inc., 640 S.E.2d 91 (W. Va. 2006)
  • Pollo Operations, Inc. v. Tripp, 906 So2d 1101 (Fla. CTA 3rd 2005)
  • Stevens v. Americana Healthcare Corp., 919 So. 2d 713 (Fla. 2nd DCA 2006)
  • Estate of Williams v. Manor Care of Dunedin, Inc., 923 So. 2d 615 (Fla. 2nd DCA 2006)
  • Bedford Care Center-Monroe Hall, LLC v. Lewis, 923 So. 2d 998 (Miss. 2006)
  • Nursing Home Litigation: Limitations Period: Alexander v. Amelia Manor Nursing Home, Inc., 924 So. 2d 409 (La. Ct. App. 2006)
  • Carter v. Estate of Rambo, 925 So. 2d 353 (Fla. 5th DCA 2006)
  • Bland v. Health Care & Ret. Corp. of Am., 927 So. 2d 252 (Fla. 2nd DCA 2006)
  • Estate of Perry v. Mariner Health Care, Inc., 927 So. 2d 762 (Miss. Ct. App. 2006)
  • Davis v. St. Francisville Country Manor, LLC, 928 So. 2d 549 (La. Ct. App. 2006)
  • Wilcox v. Gamble Guest Care Corp., 928 So. 2d 695 (La. Ct. App. 2006)
  • Estate of Githens v. Bon Secours – Maria Manor Nursing Care Ctr., Inc., 928 So. 2d 1272 (Fla. 2nd DCA 2006)
  • Cockerham v. LaSalle Nursing Home, Inc., 930 So. 2d 239 (La. Ct. App. 2006)
  • Cooley v. Gamble Guest Care Corp., 930 So. 2d 1164 (La. Ct. App. 2006)
  • Guilbeau v. Bayou Chateau Nursing Home, Inc., 930 So. 2d 1167 (La. Ct. App. 2006)
  • Walker v. Whitfield Nursing Ctr., Inc., 931 So. 2d 583 (Miss. 2006)
  • Jenkins v. Pensacola Health Trust, Inc., 933 So. 2d 923 (Miss. 2006)
  • Estate of Finley v. Beverly Health & Rehab. Servs., 933 So. 2d 1026 (Miss. Ct. App. 2006)
  • Norfleet v. Lifeguard Transp. Serv., 934 So. 2d 846 (La. Ct. App. 2006)
  • SA-PG-Ocala, LLC v. Stokes, 935 So. 2d 1242 (Fla. 5th DCA 2006)
  • Alterra Healthcare Corp. v. Bryant, 937 So. 2d 263 (Fla. 4th DCA 2006)
  • Gauthier v. Carencro Nursing Home, Inc., 938 So. 2d 235 (La. Ct. App. 2006)
  • Res. Healthcare of Am., Inc. v. McKinney, 940 So. 2d 1139 (Fla. 2nd DCA 2006)
  • Cleveland v. Mann, 942 So. 2d 108 (Miss. 2006)
  • Eldridge v. Heritage Manor, L.L.C., 942 So. 2d 743 (La. Ct. App. 2006)
  • Terry v. Red River Ctr. Corp., 942 So. 2d 1238 (La. Ct. App. 2006)
  • Health Care & Ret. Corp. of Am., Inc. v. Bradley, 944 So. 2d 508 (Fla. 4th DCA 2006)
  • Bedford Health Props., LLC v. Estate of Williams, 946 So. 2d 335 (Miss. 2006)
  • Nat’l Heritage Realty, Inc. v. Estate of Boles, 947 So. 2d 238 (Miss. 2006)
  • Ross v. Agency for Health Care Administration, 947 So.2d 457 (Fla. Ct. App. 2006)
  • Howard v. Estate of Harper, 947 So. 2d 854 (Miss. 2006)
  • Life Care Ctrs. of Am. v. Reese, 948 So. 2d 830 (Fla. 5th DCA 2007)
  • Health Facilities Mgmt. Corp. v. Hughes, 2006 Ark. LEXIS 122 (Ark. 2006)
  • Nursing Home Litigation, Sexual Assault: Alcoy v. Valley Nursing Homes, Inc., 272 Va. 37 (Va. 2006)
  • Davis v. First Healthcare Corp., 234 Ga. App. 744 (1998)
  • Peacock v. HCP III Eastman, 230 Ga. App. 726 (1998)
  • Hines v. Dep’t of Pub. Aid, 221 Ill. 2d 222 (Ill. 2006)
  • NCED Mental Health, Inc. v. Kidd, 214 S.W.3d 28 (Tex. App. 2006)
  • Rush v. Senior Citizens Nursing Home Dist., 212 S.W.3d 155 (Mo. Ct. App. 2006)
  • Miller v. Levering Reg’l Health Care Ctr., LLC, 202 S.W.3d 614 (Mo. Ct. App. 2006)
  • Heritage Hous. Dev., Inc. v. Carr, 199 S.W.3d 560 (Tex. App. 2006)
  • B.T. Healthcare, Inc. v. Honeycutt, 196 S.W.3d 296 (Tex. App. 2006)
  • Finney v. Nat’l Healthcare Corp, 193 S.W.3d 393 (Mo. Ct. App. 2006)
  • Kindred Hosps. Ltd. P’ship v. Lutrell, 190 S.W.3d 916 (Ky. 2006)
  • Diversicare Gen. Partner, Inc. v. Rubio, 185 S.W.3d 842 (Tex. 2005)
  • Barbourville Nursing Home v. United States HHS, 174 Fed. Appx. 932 (6th Cir. 2006)
  • Corbett v. Manorcare of Am. Inc., 146 P.3d 1027 (Ariz. Ct. App. 2006)
  • Thornburg v. El Centro Regional Medical Center 143 Cal. App. 4th 198 (Cal. Ct. App. 2006)
  • Oregon v. Willingham, 136 P.3d 66 (Ore. App. 2006)
  • Donohoe v. State, 135 Wn. App. 824 (Wash. Ct. App. 2006)

• Civil Procedure

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  • Handwriting Expert’s Testimony Supported Forgery Claim Regarding Life Insurance Proceeds
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  • Ohio Court of Appeals Affirms Appointment of Guardian Despite Questionable Transcript from Probate Court Hearing
  • Discovery in Medicaid Cases
  • Bank records discoverable in Power of Attorney Dispute
  • Summary Judgment Reversed Where Probate Petitioner Offered Contradictory Evidence
  • Probate Court erred when it imposed fine of more than $19,000 for contempt
  • Probate Court May Restrict a Conservator’s Power to Spend Ward’s Income
  • Where do I file a case in Georgia? (Venue)
  • Summary Judgment, Sample Language on the Standard in a Georgia Case
  • Guardianship Transfers – What are they and how to I get one?

• Civil Rights

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• Community

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• Consumer Protection

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  • Elder Law and Special Needs Law News Roundup – 6-3-2022
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• Contract

  • Notice of Residential Real Estate Broker Commissions Antitrust Settlements
  • What makes a signature valid in Georgia?
  • Appeal Challenging Georgia’s Equitable Caregiver Statute was moot
  • Medicaid: Personal Services Contract Rejected
  • Construction of Contracts, Meaning and Enforcement

• Contract Rights

• Criminal Law

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• Decision-Making

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  • Why People Do What They Do?: Honoring Traditions
  • Family Acrimony Deemed Sufficient to Disregard Nomination of Guardian
  • Involuntary Hospitalization and Treatment of Involuntary Patients
  • Temporary Health Care Placement Decision Maker for an Adult Act (O.C.G.A. § 31-36A-1 et seq.)
  • Psychiatric Advance Directives
  • Testamentary capacity – Estate of Diaz
  • Capacity Related to Legal Documents | Kathleen Whitehead, CELA
  • Patient’s Right to Direct Health Decisions Affirmed
  • Guardianship Evaluations

• Decubitus Ulcers

• Depression

• Diabetes

  • Articles – Week of August 12, 2022

• Discrimination

• Elder Law

  • Construing the Meaning of a Trust: Settlor’s Intent
  • Everyone has a Will (Even if you don’t)
  • Sample Trust Language Appointing Trustee
  • Selecting the Trustee
  • Promissory Notes
  • Refusal to Answer Medicaid’s Questions Justified Denial of Eligibility
  • How much protection does a Medicaid Asset Protection Trust really provide?
  • TennCare’s Medicaid Renewal Process was Illegal and Flawed
  • Proposed Legislation would turn estate planning on its head
  • Life Estate Awarded as Year’s Support Upheld
  • Stetson Law School Announces Tax Certificate Program for Elder Law Attorneys
  • Estate and Gift Tax Exclusion Amounts
  • Medicaid Post Eligibility Treatment of Income and Incurred Medical Expenses
  • Danger of DIY Legal Work
  • SNT Trustee Ordered to Reimburse Some Conservator Expenses
  • Claim that Trustee Breached Fiduciary Duty Backfires
  • Elder Law Attorney disbarred
  • Home purchased after nursing home admission was not an exempt homeplace
  • Are unborn embryos children?
  • Guardianship Evaluation is Admissible Regardless of Stipulation
  • Warren Buffett Estate Planning Advice
  • Control: Why People Do What They Do
  • Fear: Why People Do What They Do
  • Marriage, Living in Sin and Common Law Marriage
  • What’s Constitutes a Completed Gift? Walsh v. Bowen (Ga. App. 2023)
  • Property Rights
  • Has Georgia Abolished Irrevocable Trusts?
  • Georgia Legal Forms and Guides
  • Conservator’s settlement for minor children upheld
  • Certified Elder Law Attorneys in Florida
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  • Divorce as a Medicaid Planning Option
  • Elder Law Teaching Position At University of Alabama
  • Special Needs Roundtable
  • Legal Resource – Concepts and Definitions at Cornell Law School’s Legal Information Institute
  • What to do After a Loved One Dies

• Estate

  • Supreme Court weighs in on valuation of insurance in stock redemption agreement
  • 2024 Federal Tax Rates
  • IRS says “Wait a Minute” on Stepping-up Basis for Assets in Irrevocable Trust
  • 2022 Estate and Gift Tax Exemption Amounts
  • 2021 Tax Rate for Estates and Trusts

• Estate Planning

  • Transfer-on-Death Deeds in Georgia
  • Dementia alone does not prevent someone from executing a valid Will
  • Contacting Insurance Companies after a Policy Holder’s Death
  • Thoughts on Advance Planning with Inherited IRAs
  • IRS Notice 2023-30 – Safe Harbor Deed Language in Conservation Easements
  • Excel File Was Evidence of Advancement
  • Understanding Trusts: Keeping it EZ
  • Wills versus Trusts: Do I need a Trust?
  • Don’t pledge your IRA as collateral or you might lose creditor protection
  • Oregon’s Expanded Medicaid Estate Recovery Pulls Home Back Into Estate
  • Laughing Heirs
  • Jury Question Remained Where Testator and Witnesses Initialed Each Page But Original Attestation Page was Missing
  • Gift Tax Planning
  • Common Law Marriage: Court finds Wife was not a “Wife”
  • Form: Ethical Wills
  • Form: Funeral Planning Guide
  • Form: Special Needs Planning Guide
  • Estate Planning Fundamentals 2021
  • Issues To Consider as You Age
  • Estate Tax and Gift Tax Anti-Claw Back Regulations
  • How Do I Open an Estate In Georgia?
  • Preparing for your future

• Estate Recovery

  • Locating Medicaid Law
  • Medicaid Estate Recovery is Required
  • Structure of the Medicaid Program
  • Introduction to Medicaid Estate Recovery
  • Idaho Medicaid Agency Sets Aside Deeds to Grandchildren in Estate Recovery Action
  • SSI Decisions finding no penalty where beneficiary over 65 funds a pooled trust sub-account
  • Georgia Medicaid Manual Updated with Transmittal 71
  • Medicaid Questions: Am I Eligible?
  • Should I remove the Nursing Home spouse’s name from accounts when there is a Community Spouse?
  • Practical Considerations when Preparing Medicaid Applications
  • Can the State Take Grandma’s Home After She Dies? What is Medicaid Estate Recovery?
  • Tenncare Notices
  • Georgia Medicaid Estate Recovery Changes
  • Tenncare Estate Recovery, New Statute of Limitations
  • Medicaid Estate Recovery in Massachusetts: Kendall Case

• Ethics

• Everything

  • Georgia now permits child support for disabled children over 18
  • CMS Amends Nursing Home Quality of Care Regulations to Remove COVID-19 Provisions
  • Green Cards Redesigned
  • Medicaid Planning
  • Initial Decisions in Medicaid Cases
  • Physician Order for Life Sustaining Treatment (POLST)
  • SEC Fraud Alert issued 7/27/2021
  • Nursing Home Cases: Evidence
  • Lack of capacity: Everyone is competent to be a witness (Little v. Jim-Lar)
  • Fair Market Value: What is it and what happens when property is given away, sold for less than FMV, or cannot be easily sold?

• Evidence

  • Medicaid’s payment of medical bills does not bar recovery from negligent party
  • Evidence in Medicaid Hearings
  • Exemplar Discovery in Contested Petition for Year’s Support
  • Medicaid: Determining Which Property is Exempt Home
  • Admitting Medical Records in Probate Court as an Exception to the Hearsay Rule
  • Testamentary capacity – Murchison v. Smith
  • Testamentary capacity – Ashford v. Van Horne

• Family Law

• Food, Restaurants and Recipes

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• Forms

  • Oath for Georgia Guardians and Personal Representatives
  • Form: Affidavit of Diligent Search
  • Example of Georgia Medicaid Lien Inquiry
  • New Form Approving Special Needs Trust Accounting
  • Form: Consent to Criminal Background Check
  • Form: Georgia Notice to Debtors and Creditors
  • Form: Simple Last Will and Testament
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  • Form: Conservator’s Annual Return (or Final Return)
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  • Form: Renunciation From Executorship
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  • Form: Heirs Determination Worksheet
  • Form: Affidavit When Will is not Self-Proved and Witnesses Cannot Be Located
  • Form: Affidavit of Diligent Search
  • Form: Will for Information Purposes Only
  • Form: Georgia Conservator’s Return
  • Form: Patient Liability Worksheet
  • Excel Worksheet to Estimate Effect of Gifting with Offsetting Promissory Note
  • Medicaid Transfer Penalty Worksheet
  • Form: Spreadsheet to Evaluate Resources

• Georgia

  • Probate Court Reversed for Ordering Conservatorship Accounting Before Determining Identity of Estate’s Personal Representative
  • Medicare Supplement Policies for Individuals Under 65

• Georgia Contract law

  • Uniform Transfer on Death Security Registration Act, O.C.G.A. § 53-5-60 through § 53-5-71

• Georgia Law

  • Probate Court’s Order on Emergency Guardianship is not appealable
  • Declaratory Judgment Vacated Because It Would Have No Immediate Effect on the Parties’ Conduct
  • Process and Timeline for Georgia Guardianships and Conservatorships
  • Can a Probate Court Order Visitation in a Guardianship Case?
  • How Do I file a Deed in Georgia?
  • What is the Rule Against Perpetuities?
  • Arbitration: In Pending Case Before Georgia Supreme Court, Nursing Home Seeks to Compel Arbitration
  • O.C.G.A. § 53-1-20. Renouncing property; procedures; relation back; abridgement; fiduciary duties
  • O.C.G.A. § 53-1-5. Right of individual who feloniously and intentionally kills or conspires to kill to inherit
  • Lifetime transfers and Satisfactions
  • O.C.G.A. § 53-7-5. Powers, duties, and liabilities if more than one personal representative; safe deposit boxes or receptacles
  • Definitions in the Georgia Probate Court
  • Written Statements or Lists Disposing of Personal Property
  • Finding Georgia Law

• Georgia Property Law

  • O.C.G.A. § 53-5-35. Muniments of title to realty
  • O.C.G.A. § 53-2-7. Vesting of title to property; right to possession

• Gift and Trust Taxation

• Government Resources

  • OFR Expands Its Financial Instrument Reference Database to Help Identify Inconsistencies in Financial Terms
  • Social Security Retirement Age and Benefits | When to Apply for Social Security
  • Veterans Resources from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

• Guardianship & Conservatorship

  • Conservator has exclusive power to bring, defend or participate in lawsuits for a ward
  • Probate Court must make findings of fact and conclusions of law when requested
  • Conservator/County Administrator appointed ex-officio administrator of ward’s estate
  • Standby Guardians
  • Conservator’s Annual Return (Georgia Video)
  • Protecting Yourself from a Guardian

• Health Care Advance Directives

  • Writing your advance healthcare directive or living will so it will work in the hospital

• Health Conditions

  • At US Hospitals, a Drug Mix-Up Is Just a Few Keystrokes Away
  • NIH: Electrical Brain Maps Help Understand Migranes
  • Nursing Assessment: Head-to-Toe (Video)
  • Tuberculosis (TB) Symptoms, Treatment, Causes, Nursing NCLEX Review

• Health Insurance

  • Free Webinar on Medicare: August 13, 2024
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  • Medicare Plan Finder (Video)
  • Medicare 101

• Healthy Living

  • If you think you had a stroke
  • Remembering What’s Important – A Message from My Parents
  • News from the National Post-acute and Long-term Care Study–June 2021
  • PBS’s The Healthcare Divide (Video)
  • Headlines from Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, May 12, 2021, Issue #763
  • Medicare Virtual Fair, June 23, 2021
  • Veterans Health Administration Exercise Series
  • Is the Affordable Care Act Constitutional?
  • Medication Errors

• HIPAA

• Home Health Care

• Hospice

• Housing

• Income Eligibility

  • 2025 Spousal Impoverishment Standards
  • Social Security Announces 2.5 Percent Benefit Increase for 2025
  • Georgia Medicaid Waiver Programs
  • Preliminary injunction granted barring state from terminating QI Medicaid
  • SSI to Remove Food as In-Kind Support and Maintenance
  • 2024 SSI and Spousal Impoverishment Standards Announced
  • 2024 SSI Amounts and Estimated Impact on Medicaid
  • Tennessee Justice Center Presents Medicaid Eligibility Boot Camp
  • NEW VIDEO: Medicaid – 2023 Financial Eligibility
  • Burial Resources and Life Insurance
  • Callinan Letter to Kryglik – Cash Loans Must Be Legally Valid Under State Law
  • Medicaid Fundamentals – Rights Are Not Changed
  • 2023 Georgia Medicaid Eligibility
  • Spousal Impoverishment Standards By Year
  • 2023 SSI and Spousal Impoverishment Standards
  • Divorce and the Community Spouse
  • Seeking Adjustments to the CSRA or MMMNA
  • Post-Eligibility Treatment of the Institutional Spouse’s Income
  • Protecting Income for the Community Spouse
  • Potential Redetermination When Moving to a New State
  • Transfer Penalties and the Community Spouse
  • Protecting Resources for the Community Spouse
  • MCCA’s Legislative History
  • Opening Comments regarding the Medicaid Community Spouse
  • Changing the Default Rules for a Community Spouse
  • Medicaid Planning Scenario: Am I eligible for Medicaid?
  • Medicaid Cannot be More Restrictive Than SSI in 1634 States (Non-209(b) States)
  • Gross Income Used to Determine Whether Qualified Income Trust is Necessary (Ohio)
  • 2022 Spousal Impoverishment Standards
  • Medicaid: Income is not a Resource During the Month of Receipt
  • New 2022 SSI and Medicaid Numbers
  • Protecting Married Seniors from Impoverishment Act of 2021
  • Medicaid Spend-down – What is it?
  • Medicaid: VA Improved Pension is not income
  • Medicaid: Court Adjusted CSRA
  • Medicaid: Use of Burial Funds is Income
  • Medicaid: Another Case without a Qualified Income Trust
  • Medicaid: No QIT, No Medicaid
  • Medicaid: Cost-Share Calculation
  • Medicaid: Cost-share deduction for health insurance premium
  • Medicaid: Court Reaches Wrong Conclusion Regarding Community Spouse
  • Medicaid: Ignorance of QIT Requirement No Excuse
  • Medicaid: Hire a Lawyer
  • Timm v. Mont. Dep’t of Pub. HHS, 2008 MT 126 (2008)

• Income Taxes

  • IRS publishes regulations relating to required minimum distributions from qualified plans
  • Can Congress Tax Unrealized Gains?
  • Relief in 2023 from RMD Rules
  • Secure Act 2.0 allows SNTs holding retirement accounts to name charitable beneficiaries

• Insurance

• Last Will and Testament

  • What Constitutes a Valid Will
  • Requirements for Execution of Will in Georgia
  • Slosberg Revisited
  • Frivolous Objection to Will Triggers Attorney’s Fees
  • Testamentary Gift Adeemed by Extinction
  • Presumption of Validity Applies When Witnesses to Will Do Not Remember
  • Offering a Lost Will for Probate
  • Probate Court did not err appointing County Administrator to Administer Will Rather than Named Executor
  • Petition for Accounting Does Not Trigger In Terrorem Clause
  • Probate Litigation – Horton and Weisbord

• Laws, Regulations, Cases & Other Resources

  • Tax Research at IRS.gov
  • Medicaid Legal Resources

• Legal Capacity

  • Arbitration Agreement Enforced; Trial Court erred in looking beyond HCAD to determine competency

• Legislation

  • Medicaid: Deficit Reduction Act of 2005
  • U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging: Hearings
  • Combating Social Isolation and Loneliness During the COVID-19 Pandemic
  • The COVID-19 Pandemic and Seniors: A Look at Racial Health Disparities
  • Women and Retirement: Unique Challenges and Opportunities to Pave a Brighter Future

• Life Insurance

• Long Term Care

  • Medicare & You: Nursing Home / Long-Term Care

• Long-Term Care Insurance

• Medicaid

  • Social Security Disability versus Veteran’s Disability
  • SNT Payback Provision Enforced
  • Updated Georgia Penalty Divisor Effective April 1, 2024
  • Is a Community Spouse required to name the State as remainder beneficiary of an annuity?
  • Medicaid Trust Case Remanded for Further Proceedings
  • Social Security Announces 2024 Increase
  • CMS Webinars on Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) Renewals
  • US District Court finds Florida violated ADA with unjustifiable segregation of institutionalized children with medical complexity
  • Court Cannot Substitute its Judgment for SNT Trustee’s Judgment as long as the Trustee Act Within Proper Limits
  • Transfer to Trust Subject to Medicaid Transfer Penalty
  • 2023 Georgia Medicaid Penalty Divisor Increases
  • State’s contigent interest in pooled trust sub-account ends when master trust retains funds, not when it uses them
  • Pooled Trusts Currently Authorized to Provide Trust Services in Georgia
  • Vehicles and Medicaid
  • Miscellaneous Resource Nuggets – Medicaid and SSI
  • Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP)
  • Transfer Penalties
  • Default Community Spouse Resource Allowance
  • Deeming
  • Resource Eligibility
  • Income of the Community Spouse
  • Income Eligibility
  • Nursing Home Medicaid and HCBS Waivers – Financial Eligibility
  • Financial Eligibility Overview
  • Medical Eligibility
  • More on State of Residence
  • More on Citizenship
  • Categorical Eligibility
  • Aged, Blind or Disabled
  • What does it mean to be “Disabled” Under the Social Security Act?
  • Long-Term Care Delivery System
  • Coverage for institutionalized individuals and related groups under the special income rule
  • Poverty-related group for the aged and disabled
  • Recipients of State Supplemental Payment (SSP) benefits
  • Medicaid and Persons who qualify for Supplemental Security Income (SSI)
  • Mediaid Eligibility (in general terms)
  • Origins of the Medicaid Program
  • Medicare/Medicaid Relationship
  • Spousal Refusal and Medicaid
  • When you might need an attorney’s assistance with a Medicaid application
  • Advice from Medicaid Caseworkers
  • Appeals to the Court of Appeals – Medicaid
  • Medicaid Appeals to Superior Court
  • Medicaid Appeals to the Agency
  • Standards Used in Determining Eligibility
  • The Record in Medicaid Cases
  • Advice from the Bench in Medicaid Cases
  • Hearing Rights and Responsibilities in Medicaid Cases
  • Issues for Hearing
  • Pre-Trial Motions in Medicaid Cases
  • Summary Determination in Medicaid Cases
  • Notice, Due Process and Procedure in Medicaid Fair Hearings
  • Continuing Benefits While Appeal is Pending
  • Medicaid is required to be simple, but you have no right to enforce its simplicity
  • Who Can Apply for Medicaid?
  • Medicaid’s Obligation to Respond to a Medicaid Application
  • Filing the Medicaid Application
  • Right to Notices Regarding Medicaid from the Nursing Home
  • Medicaid Must Be Administered by a Single State Agency
  • Medicaid is a co-operative Federal and State Program
  • Medicaid Renewals Post-COVID-19 Expected To Be Difficult
  • State Can Seek Recovery of Future Medical Expenses
  • Medicaid Covid Waivers
  • US Supreme Court nixes Medicaid case relating to Work Requirement
  • State seeks to impose lien on inheritance
  • Irrevocable Trust was not an available resource when determining Medicaid eligibility
  • Medicaid Annuity Cases on Appeal in Massachusetts
  • Presumptive Eligibility Medical Assistance Federal Poverty Levels for 2022
  • Court rejects argument that applicants have enforceable right to services not yet offered
  • Medicaid Terms and Definitions
  • Georgia Medicaid Renewals Extended Again
  • Medicaid Liens Revisited: Gallardo v. Marstiller
  • Georgia Medicaid Application
  • 2022 SSI Rate
  • Georgia’s Medicaid Lien Attaches to Entire Recovery
  • Medicaid: Deeming Terminates After Eligibility is Established
  • Medicaid: Homeplace Exemption
  • Medicaid: Pooled Trust Subaccount Established for Individual Over 65
  • Medicaid: No Penalty on Transfer to Disabled Child; Previously Unknown Resource Exempt
  • Medicaid: Annuity; Transfer Penalty for Failing to Name State as Beneficiary
  • Medicaid: Single Premium Life Insurance Policy; Penalty Reversed
  • Medicaid: No Retroactive Application of Policy Changes Permitted; Payments for Renovations to Accommodate Petitioner Permitted; Payments Consistent with Prior Accepted Obligation Permitted
  • Medicaid: Transfer to Disabled Child Approved Upon ALS Diagnosis
  • Medicaid: No Transfer Penalty Where Transfer Was Exclusively for Purpose Other Than to Qualify for Medicaid
  • Medicaid: Denial Affirmed Because Applicant was Over-Resourced
  • Medicaid: Transfer Penalty Affirmed
  • Medicaid: Transfer Penalty Reversed Where Services Provided Under Agreement
  • Medicaid: Can’t Designate Cash Value of Life Insurance for Burial
  • Medicaid: Determining Equity Value
  • Medicaid: Life Insurance Snafu
  • Medicaid: No Penalty for Transfer to Disabled Child
  • Medicaid: Penalty Reversed Where Home Given to Caregiver Child
  • Medicaid: No transfer penalty where transfer reimbursed third party for advancing expenses
  • Medicaid: The Limit is Still the Limit
  • Medicaid: Corpus of Irrevocable Trust Countable
  • Medicaid: The Limit is the Limit
  • Medicaid: Lost application; eligibility retroactiev to three months from original appliction
  • Medicaid: DFCS directed to determine eligibility where application pending over one year
  • Medicaid: Sole Benefit Trust rejected and transfer penalty imposed
  • Medicaid: Transfer Penalty Reversed Where Cured
  • Medicaid: Federal Law Trumps State Law When They Conflict
  • Assessment of transfer penalty on sale of life estate affirmed
  • No Penalty Where Resources were Transferred to Disabled Child
  • Medicaid: Community Spouse Resource Allowance administratively raised
  • Medicaid: Valuation; value of transferable promissory note
  • Medicaid Transfer of Resources Penalty Affirmed (2008)
  • Medicaid Resource Limit Firm; Debt not a factor (2008)
  • Denial of Eligibility Upheld Where Applicant Failed to Cure Penalty
  • VDRNC, LLC v Merrick, 191 A.D.3d 1430 (NY AP, 4th 2021)
  • Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene v. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, 542 F.3d 424 (2008)
  • Medicaid: A Joint Federal-State Program
  • Medicaid: Common Abbreviations and Definitions
  • Why do States try to cut Medicaid benefits instead of expanding them?
  • Alexander v. Choate, 469 U.S. 287 (1985)

• Medicare

  • 2024 Medicare Premiums and Deductibles
  • Updated Fact Sheet on Medicare Nursing Home Benefit
  • Medicare Open Enrollment
  • What is a Medicare Supplement Policy (Medigap policy)?
  • Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003
  • Medicare and the Affordable Care Act
  • Medicare Appeals
  • Medicare Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports
  • Medicare Enrollment Periods
  • What is Medicare Part D?
  • What are Medicare Advantage Plans?
  • What is Medicare Part B?
  • What is Medicare Part A?
  • CMS Announces 2023 Medicare Parts A & B Premiums and Deductibles 2023 Medicare Part D Income-Related Monthly Adjustment Amounts
  • CMS Announces Lower Premiums for Medicare Advantage and Prescription Drug Plans in 2023
  • Medicare Beneficiary challenges Local Coverage Determination as conflicting with NCD
  • Medicare must cover off-label use of prescription drug says 11th Circuit
  • Medicare’s Benefit Period and Spell of Illness Rule
  • Medicare: Selected 2021 Training Materials from CMS National Training Program
  • Medicare Secondary Payer: Coordination of Benefits
  • Medicare & You: Different Parts Of Medicare

• Medicare Supplement Policies

• Mental Health

  • Special Needs Alliance publishes new Disability Handbook

• Mental Illness

  • Mysteries of Mental Illness (PBS Video)

• Money Management

  • Market Observations from David Hultstrom
  • Why performance is not a good indicator when selecting a financial advisor
  • Reverse Mortgages
  • How To: Calculate Your Social Security Retirement Benefits
  • What is the best time to collect Social Security?
  • Should your Adult Child be Co-Signer on your Bank Account?

• MSP

• Music We Love

  • It Is Well With My Soul!
  • Live Like You Were Dying – Tim McGraw
  • When God Ran – Phillips, Craig & Dean
  • Stand By Me – Music Travel Love
  • Take Me Home, Country Roads – Music Travel Love
  • CAN’T STOP THE FEELING! (Justin Timberlake)
  • Pharrell Williams – Happy (Official Music Video)

• News

  • News Roundup – 4-29-2022
  • News Roundup – 3/18/2022
  • Press Release Announcing EZElderLaw.com
  • News Roundup – June 17, 2021
  • How Biden’s Families Plan Impacts People With Disabilities

• Northwest Georgia

  • Anna Shaw Children’s Institute CHAMP Webinar – Introduction to ABA Therapy
  • Parent Support Group at Anna Shaw Children’s Institute
  • Anna Shaw Children’s Institute – Social Skills Group

• Nursing Home Litigation

  • CMS Announces Nursing Home Minimum Staffing Rule
  • CMS Oversight of Nursing Home Staffing Levels
  • Resident’s Right to Choose Activities and Interact with Others Inside and Outside the Nursing Home
  • Resident’s Right to Refuse Unnecessary Intra-facility Transfers
  • Resident’s Right to Share a Room; Roommates
  • Resident’s Right to Reasonable Accomodation of Needs and Preferences
  • Resident’s Right to Personal Possessions
  • Visitation in the Nursing Home
  • Nursing Home Resident’s Autonomy
  • Resident’s Right to Self-Determination
  • Resident’s Right to Choose Attending Physician
  • Additional Guidance Regarding Nursing Home Patients With Cognitive Impairments
  • Guidance Regarding Resident’s Right to Self-Administer Medications
  • Resident’s Right to Be Informed of and Participate in Treatment
  • Resident’s Right to Exercise Rights
  • Resident’s Right to a Dignified Existence
  • Definitions Relating to Nursing Home Care
  • Nursing Home Resident Rights, general concepts
  • Trial court applied wrong standard regarding denial of extension to file certificate of good faith
  • Nursing Home Litigation: Seeking Justice
  • Nursing Home Bibliography: 2006-2007

• Nursing Homes

  • Nursing Home Food
  • NCCNHR Video on Resources regarding Revised Nursing Home Regulations
  • CMS Rescinds Three Covid 19 Waivers

• Online Resources

• Osteoporosis

• Parkinson's Disease

• Personal Injury & Malpractice

• Powers of Attorney

  • Form IRS Form 2848, Power of Attorney

• Prescription Drug (Part D) Policies

• Privacy Rights

• Probate and Administration

  • Income Tax Return for Estates and Trusts – Form 1041
  • Notice Concerning Fiduciary Relationship – IRS Form 56
  • Uniform Partition of Heirs Property Act
  • Priority of claims against a decedent’s estate
  • Georgia Probate Courts have Exclusive Jurisdiction Over The Probate of Wills
  • Don’t Forge Signatures – Just Don’t
  • In Terrorem Clauses are Strictly Construed
  • Executor Is Subject to Probate Court’s Authority While Serving
  • Bankruptcy Trustee, not beneficiary, had standing to prosecute breach of fiduciary duty claim
  • Escheat – Reversion of Property to the State

• Property Law

  • Owning Property and Titling Assets
  • Common Ways to Title Your Home
  • What is Joint Tenancy and When Should I Use It?

• Property Rights

• Public Benefits

  • VA Updates Adjudication Procedures Manual to Allow Payment of Claims Where Appointment of Fiduciary was Pending at Tome of Death
  • Guidance for Trustees of Special Needs Trusts

• Public Benefits

  • Are Pooled Special Needs Trusts Subject to SEC Regulation?
  • 2021 National Conference on Special Needs Planning and Special Needs Trusts, October 13-15, 2021
  • 2022 Special Needs Planning Symposium, February 24 – 26, 2022

• Regulations

• Religion and Faith

  • Wednesday Morning Walk: 2 Kings 5
  • Wednesday Morning Walk August 2, 2023
  • Wednesday Morning Walk, June 7, 2023
  • Wednesday Morning Walk, May 31, 2023
  • How does it help to be worried?

• Resource Eligibility

  • Cash, Bank Accounts and Non-retirement Investments and Medicaid
  • Government Bonds and Medicaid
  • POMS Provisions Regarding Property Rights
  • Medicaid Treatment of Retirement Accounts

• Resources

• Retirement Income

• Retirement Planning

  • Re-Post on the State of U.S. Government finances from David E. Hultstrom
  • Predict the Markets
  • Financial Literacy Videos
  • Social Security (What is my Social Security)
  • Economic models | Basic economics concepts | AP Macroeconomics and Microeconomics | Khan Academy
  • RICH VS POOR MINDSET | An Eye Opening Interview with Robert Kiyosaki
  • Investing Basics: Planning for Retirement
  • How Social Security Works (CNBC)

• Rights

  • Two Tennessee Grandparent Visitation Cases

• Sholarly Articles

  • Articles – Week of September 30, 2022
  • Articles – Week of September 23, 2022
  • Articles – Week of September 16, 2022
  • Articles – Week of August 12, 2022, Part 2

• Social Security

  • Social Security Revises Policy on Recoverying Overpayments
  • What does if mean to be “blind” under the Social Security Act?
  • SSI denied where applicant did not follow-up with care and failed to prove disability
  • Social Security and Disability Benefits

• Social Security Disability (SSDI)

• Social Security Retirement

• Southeast Tennessee

• Special Education

  • Who can represent me in a special education case?

• Special Needs

  • App may help identify children with autism spectrum disorder
  • Social Security Report on ABLE Accounts

• Special Needs Trusts

  • Tennessee Trust Code Revised
  • Great-West Life & Annuity Ins. Co. v. Knudson, 534 U.S. 204 (2002)
  • Sereboff v. Mid-Atlantic Medical Services, Inc., 547 U.S. 356 (2006)
  • In re Valerie R. Pecce Supplemental Needs Trust, 19-P-591 (Mass Ct. App. 2021)

• Spousal and Dependent Benefits

• Stroke

• Supplemental Security Income

• Taxation

  • Modifying a trust can be a taxable event
  • IRS Tax Tip 2023-75 – Notices CP2100 and 2100A
  • IRS Announces Saturday Hours for Taxpayer Assistance
  • How Long Should I keep Tax Records?

• Taxation, generally

• Taxes

• Tools for Lawyers

  • Tools for Lawyers – Game Changing Attorney Podcast

• Tort, Personal Injury, Malpractice

• Transfer Penalty

• Trusts

  • Do I need a Gun Trust?

• Veteran's Benefits

  • VA Aid & Attendance Benefit Rates for 2023

• Videos

• Wrongful Death