{"id":2208,"date":"2024-08-29T01:25:51","date_gmt":"2024-08-29T01:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flnavigator.com\/healthfairs\/?p=2208"},"modified":"2024-08-29T01:25:51","modified_gmt":"2024-08-29T01:25:51","slug":"home-modifications-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flnavigator.com\/healthfairs\/2024\/08\/services\/home-modifications-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Home Modifications"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=&#8221;ELDER LAW ATTORNEYS<\/p>\n<p>Arlene Lakin, Esq.<\/p>\n<p>Margate, Florida&#8221; font_container=&#8221;tag:h2|text_align:center&#8221; use_theme_fonts=&#8221;yes&#8221; css=&#8221;&#8221;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]<\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size: 14px;\">\n<p>Elder law attorneys focus on helping \u201celders\u201d with their incapacity and estate planning.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We can help you avoid a costly guardianship by preparing advance care directives such as health care surrogates and living wills.\u00a0 Another important document that should be prepared for you is a durable power of attorney.\u00a0 Under the right financial circumstances, a revocable living trust may also be suitable to avoid guardianship of your assets, and to avoid probate of your assets.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Regarding estate planning, elder law attorneys can prepare your Last Will and Testament and, perhaps, a Trust Agreement.\u00a0 A Last Will and Testament provides information for the Court for probate proceedings. \u00a0A probate proceeding is only necessary if someone dies and has asset(s) in their name alone.\u00a0 A Trust Agreement is intended to avoid probate, but only if the individual puts all of their assets into the name of the Trust.\u00a0 Some assets, e.g., annuity, I.R.A., etc., cannot be put into the name of the Trust, but the Trust could be listed as a death beneficiary.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Most of the public believe that an elder law attorney is used strictly for public benefits planning &#8211; Medicaid, Veterans benefits, etc.\u00a0 That is true, but as you can see,<\/p>\n<p>elder law attorneys do a lot more than just public benefits and asset protection planning.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Be sure you work with an \u201celder law\u201d attorney because this is an specialized area of law.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=&#8221;ELDER LAW ATTORNEYS Arlene Lakin, Esq. Margate, Florida&#8221; font_container=&#8221;tag:h2|text_align:center&#8221; use_theme_fonts=&#8221;yes&#8221; css=&#8221;&#8221;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;] Elder law attorneys focus on helping \u201celders\u201d with their incapacity and estate planning. &nbsp; We can help you avoid a costly guardianship by preparing advance care directives such as health care surrogates and living wills.\u00a0 Another important document that should be prepared [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[117,118],"class_list":["post-2208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-services","tag-homesteading","tag-housing-2"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flnavigator.com\/healthfairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flnavigator.com\/healthfairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flnavigator.com\/healthfairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flnavigator.com\/healthfairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flnavigator.com\/healthfairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/flnavigator.com\/healthfairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2209,"href":"https:\/\/flnavigator.com\/healthfairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2208\/revisions\/2209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flnavigator.com\/healthfairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flnavigator.com\/healthfairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flnavigator.com\/healthfairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}