Posted on February 26, 2017 by Hawkins Elder Law.
[See our Disclaimers page about relying on this website’s contents.] The narrator of the 1948 detective movie, Naked City, gave this vivid description of the homicide detective’s painstaking investigative method: “An investigation for murder is under way now in the city of New York. It will advance methodically, by trial and error, by leg […]
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Posted on January 29, 2017 by Hawkins Elder Law.
[See our Disclaimers page about relying on this website’s contents.] Many disabled children face disheartening experiences when they become adults. Public and private resources offer a variety of therapeutic services, summer recreation camps, and adaptive educational accommodations to disabled children, but many of those benefits and abruptly at adulthood. A federal tax law known as […]
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Posted on January 14, 2017 by Hawkins Elder Law.
[See our Disclaimers page about relying on this website’s contents.] Executive officers of unlicensed software companies LegalZoom and AVVO have infuriated lawyers in presentations at bar association meetings over the past couple of years. The presenters claimed that their technology allows them to provide unlicensed legal services to consumers faster and less expensively than consumers […]
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The basic purpose for estate planning is to prepare for future situations by empowering people to solve problems or adapt to changing circumstances. Unfortunately, this old planning truism still applies: The finest plans of mice and men often fall apart and leave us with only grief and pain instead of joyful hearts. (Our paraphrased excerpt […]
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Posted on January 13, 2017 by Hawkins Elder Law.
[See our Disclaimers page about relying on this website’s contents.] Every profession has craftsmen that constantly refine their skills and performance quality. As technology and society evolve, craftsmen respond to ever-changing societal needs by developing and harnessing new technology to create more effective and useful tools and products. As society faces overwhelming technological advances and […]
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Posted on January 5, 2017 by Hawkins Elder Law.
[See our Disclaimers page about relying on this website’s contents.] The Indiana State Department of health (ISDH) updated and improved the Indiana Physicians Orders for Scope of Treatment (POST) form in December 2016. The new form is available for download in PDF and Microsoft Word formats at http://www.in.gov/isdh/25880.htm, and it should be available in the […]
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Posted on December 4, 2016 by Hawkins Elder Law.
[See our Disclaimers page about relying on this website’s contents.] The Medicaid system is maturing and showing promise of improving nursing home alternatives compared to the few meaningful alternatives to nursing home care that existed when we began our elder law career almost quarter century ago. Back then, almost every dementia or stroke patient had […]
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Posted on November 27, 2016 by Hawkins Elder Law.
[See our Disclaimers page about relying on this website’s contents.] People buy and use life insurance for many reasons. Unfortunately, too many people make poor life insurance purchase and use decisions because they do not try to understand their options. Instead, they rely on insurance promoters and amateur advisors to tell them what they need […]
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[See our Disclaimers page about relying on this website’s contents.] There is an old saying that, “the two certainties in life are death and taxes.” Those certainties used to inspire life insurance purchases to provide money for funeral expenses and “death taxes.” Today, increased estate tax exemption and the Indiana inheritance tax repeal have eliminated […]
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Posted on November 19, 2016 by Hawkins Elder Law.
[See our Disclaimers page about relying on this website’s contents.] Pop quiz: Which of the following business transactions could involve criminal behavior? Your restaurant customer pays the tab in cash and leaves a cash tip on the table. The next door neighbor gives your child a $10 bill to shovel snow. You clean a friend’s […]
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