How Do I Help My Parents with Money Problems?
Adult children often need some money from their parents. However, what do you do when your parents need financial help?
Ethan Huizenga
March 6, 2020
Planning Retirement with a Cognitive Decline
When a loved one is experiencing cognitive decline, emotional and medical considerations often overshadow the financial planning that needs to happen. This is a potentially costly mistake.
Ethan Huizenga
February 11, 2020
Do I Need Long-Term Care and Why?
Long-term care, often called custodial care, is a range of services and support to meet health or personal care needs over an extended period of time. This is non-medical care provided by non-licensed caregivers.
Ethan Huizenga
February 10, 2020
What You Need to Know about a Medicaid Asset Protection Trust
When you put your assets into a Medicaid Asset Protection Trust (MAPT), Medicaid does not count those things toward the asset limit.
Ethan Huizenga
January 29, 2020
Making a Fresh Start for 2020? Keep this Stuff
There’s a fine line between holding on to important financial and medical records … and hoarding.
Ethan Huizenga
January 14, 2020
Does Your Retirement Plan Include Long-Term Care Insurance?
No one likes to think about needing long-term care. Yet the reality is that many people will, at some point in their life.
Ethan Huizenga
January 10, 2020
The Great Medicaid Planning Hoax
According to www.longtermcare.gov, 28% of people aren’t planning for future nursing home care because long-term care costs are so high, and 45% of people simply don’t know how to plan. My own experience with both advisors and clients reflects this. As a long-term care planning attorney, this is concerning to me: there are many, many options for planning for future long-term care needs, but people don’t know they exist! This is a significant problem, but there’s a solution available if we know why the problem exists. [Read More]
Ethan Huizenga
January 4, 2020
In the News: Medicaid Researching Social Determinants of Health
It should come as no surprise that where we are born, grow, live, work, play, and age can have a dramatic impact on our health.
Ethan Huizenga
June 25, 2019
Watch Your Language: Tangible Personal Property
Domicile – the place a person calls “home” – can have a significant impact on Medicaid eligibility and what benefits are available to help with long-term care.
Ethan Huizenga
June 18, 2019
Watch Your Language: Equity Value
Domicile – the place a person calls “home” – can have a significant impact on Medicaid eligibility and what benefits are available to help with long-term care.
Ethan Huizenga
June 11, 2019