How to Deal With Credit Cards of the Deceased
When a loved one passes away, there are several issues that need to be handled, including making funeral arrangements and dealing with their estate. However, there is one issue that many people fail to consider after the death of a family member: What happens to their credit cards? Debt is [...]
Long-Term Care Mistakes: What Not to Do
As you or a loved one grows older, there’s nothing more important than planning your long-term care. However, many people are unprepared for just how complicated planning long-term care can be, leading them to make mistakes that could have been prevented. Whether you’re interested in protecting your assets, applying for [...]
Who Has the Capacity to Make a Will?
One of the most important areas of elder law is protecting your assets with a will. Having a will in order means your estate will be handled in the way that you wish. However, writing a will can be extremely complicated, and there are several issues that can result in [...]
Remaining Socially Engaged with Age
One of the key things that makes aging more difficult is the fact that we tend to lose touch with the things that are going on in the world. That doesn’t necessarily mean current events — one can watch the evening news for that. It means current social trends, and [...]
How to Embrace Aging
We’ve all heard the platitudes: thirty is the new twenty, forty is the new thirty. The truth is, when you’re at the turn of a new decade, it never feels like you’re in the prior one. We all have regrets about our past, and few of us look forward to [...]
The Dangers of Joint Tenancy
Joint tenancy is a legal concept that many partners, whether romantic couples or business partners, use to avoid probate when one passes away. It’s also referred to as JTWROS, or joint tenants with rights of survivorship. It allows partners to retain equal rights to any assets under the tenancy without [...]
The Basics of Estate Planning for Singles
For the most part, people who think about estate planning are those who have entire families to consider. However, those who are single also have concerns as they look to their futures, and estate planning is vital to everyone’s future. The approach that singles will need to take to such [...]
The Healthcare Debate, Medicare and Medicaid
If you take fifteen seconds to look at social media these days, you’ll see wild predictions of doom and gloom, of hundreds of thousands of people dying in the street without healthcare. You’ll hear people saying Senator John McCain betrayed them by voting to take away their healthcare. The truth [...]