The Four Steps to Successfully Putting Your Blended Family Asset and Estate Planning Process Together
One day you’re single with children (either grown or growing up way too fast right before your eyes), and the next thing you know you’ve gotten married and your spouse...
10 Steps to Take After Your Senior Loved One Suffers a Bad Fall
Slip and fall accidents are a leading cause of serious injury and disability among senior citizens. A fall that for a younger person might take a week to heal, can...
5 Signs of Alzheimer’s and What Steps to Take Next
Learn five early signs of Alzheimer’s disease and explore the steps to take to plan for care and the future of your loved one and their assets. …
The Difference Between a Trust and a Will: Which is Right for You?
You’ve worked hard all your life trying to get ahead and leave something behind for your loved ones. You want to have some degree of control over who gets what....
Planning Ahead: What to Prepare When You’re Still Healthy
Planning for the future isn’t something many people think about. This is especially true when you’re planning for your twilight years. No one wants to face mortality, but being prepared...
Medicaid Benefits: The Importance of a Caregiver Contract
The idea of a caregiver contract may seem unfamiliar or even alien at first to those who step up to provide care for their loved one or parent who has...
How the VA Factors in Disability for Benefits and Social Security
Many veterans are left confused and in the cold wondering how they can collect the benefits they’ve been promised and to which they’re entitled after suffering a serious injury in...
Changes in Medicaid: Why Working with an Attorney is Important
We’re facing an uncertain future. The Affordable Care Act will very likely be repealed, but what will happen after that, nobody can tell. This could carry serious implications for Medicaid...
Calculating the Cost of Nursing Care in Ohio
There’s little doubt that nursing care is expensive — and getting more expensive by the year. It can help if you estimate the costs before going in. While this can...
Supporting Your Grieving Parent
Losing a loved one is one of the most trying times of a person’s life, especially when that person is your partner of multiple decades. After one of your parents...
Choosing Hospice for Your Loved One
When your loved one needs hospice care, it can be one of the most stressful, emotionally devastating times in your family’s life. In addition to dealing with your grief, you...
Take the Blended Family Quiz
Statistics show that over 50 percent of families in the United States are part of a “Blended Family.” Here, both spouses have brought children from a previous marriage into the...