What Happens When My Special Needs Child Turns 18?
July 16, 2025
Turning 18 is a major milestone – especially for children with disabilities – because it triggers critical changes in legal rights and parental responsibilities.
Does Your Estate Plan Consider the Needs of a Disabled Beneficiary?
May 5, 2025
Estate planning addresses all kinds of events in life, and planning for a disabled beneficiary, even someone who has been well all their lives, should be considered when creating an estate plan for your family with an estate planning attorney. What one needs to do is different in every situation, according to a recent article, “Some estate plans need provisions for disabled beneficiaries,” from The News-Enterprise. For families with a long-term disabled individual, one course is to create a Third-Party Supplemental Needs Trust, sometimes referred to simply as a Special Needs Trust or SNT. This is a type of trust…
Why Do I Need a Will?
August 10, 2022
There’s always plenty of time to get your affairs in order, until you get run over by a cement truck.
How Do You Divide Inheritance among Children?
July 21, 2021
First, before making a gift or bequest outright to your youngest son, consider whether now or in the future he will possibly be eligible for governmental assistance based on his disability and his own assets.