Posted on April 22, 2016 by Hawkins Elder Law.
[See our Disclaimers page about relying on this website’s contents.] Revocable trust plans have been around for fifty years or more. Revocable trusts were quite the rage when we began practicing law in the early 1990s. Most people wanted the privacy advantage that revocable trusts held over last wills and testaments. Some people believed mistakenly […]
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Posted on April 11, 2016 by Hawkins Elder Law.
[See our Disclaimers page about relying on this website’s contents.] We attended the recent funeral of the beautiful matriarch of a family that we have known and loved for many years. Our dear friends expressed mixed feelings of loss from the death of their beloved mother and grandmother, and joy because her death released her […]
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Posted on April 2, 2016 by Hawkins Elder Law.
[See our Disclaimers page about relying on this website’s contents.] Most people think once in a while about the inheritance that they will leave for others. Some people assume that their wealth will transfer to their family members smoothly and other people believe that they must make detailed plans. To some extent, both ideas are […]
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Posted on March 30, 2016 by Hawkins Elder Law.
[See our Disclaimers page about relying on this website’s contents.] Alzheimer’s disease, stroke, and other health crises send thousands of people to nursing homes each year. People often want to protect assets from expensive healthcare costs when they discover that the average annual cost of Indiana nursing home care exceeds $71,000. Legitimate asset protection strategies […]
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Posted on March 21, 2016 by Hawkins Elder Law.
[See our Disclaimers page about relying on this website’s contents.] One of farming’s “Holy Grails” is to assemble tracts of farmland that join together as one big block so that the farmer can move from one field to another without having to transport equipment down roads or highways. Such a farmland assemblage saves incredible time, […]
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Posted on March 14, 2016 by Hawkins Elder Law.
[See our Disclaimers page about relying on this website’s contents.] Do all families fight about money when their members die? We have all heard stories of feuding families, but in more than two decades of estate and trust practice, the attorneys at Hawkins Law PC have only seen a few families fight openly. Most families […]
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Posted on March 6, 2016 by Hawkins Elder Law.
[See our Disclaimers page about relying on this website’s contents.] We hear news stories every year about banks, retail stores, and other merchants being “hacked” by cyber criminals that want to steal the merchants’ customers’ identity and credit card data. You might think that hackers only go after “big fish,” and that they do not […]
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Posted on February 28, 2016 by Hawkins Elder Law.
The State of Indiana has published that Indiana nursing home care costs an average of more than $71,000 per year. Fortunately, federal law protects most spouses of nursing home residents from impoverishment. Here are some Indiana’s spousal impoverishment rule features: The Spousal Impoverishment Protection Law applies for nursing home admissions occurring on or after September […]
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Posted on February 18, 2016 by Hawkins Elder Law.
[See our Disclaimers page about relying on this website’s contents.] Did you ever pick up a button that fell off a shirt or a screw that fell out of a piece of furniture, store it in a place that you are sure you would never forget, and later forget the location of that fool-proof storage? […]
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Posted on February 12, 2016 by Hawkins Elder Law.
[See our Disclaimers page about relying on this website’s contents.] We have written articles about estate planning and long-term care for more than a decade to debunk myths and misconceptions that may lead people into unnecessary problems. This article addresses some of those myths and misconceptions about Indiana Medicaid for the elderly. Permitted Annual Gifts. […]
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