Webinar Recorded: January 25, 2019
Presented by Valerie L. Peterson, JD and Jill Roamer, JD, ElderCounsel, LLC
Duration: 30 minutes
Watch ElderCounsel’s 30-minute review of important news updates in the areas of Medicaid planning, special needs planning and veterans pension planning from across the country.
Agenda:
- Court wrongly rejected evidence in caretaker child exception case
- Before suing a spouse, nursing home must first pursue Medicaid recipient’s estate
- Annuity was not subject to estate claim
- Surviving spouse’s elective share equates to life estate
- Son’s failure to file Medicaid appeal does not mean breach of nursing home contract
- How the government shut-down is impacting seniors, Veterans, and those with disabilities
- The top ten most popular states for trusts
- Medicaid updates
- Newest Arkansas figures
- Kentucky lawsuit filed again
- Utah voters approved Medicaid expansion, but it may be delayed
- Trump’s plan for block grants
- Arizona Medicaid work requirements; tribes exemp
- Feel Good Friday
- NY Mayor announces plan to ensure every New Yorker has health care
- Sea World is now a certified autism center
- A village for homeless vets being built in Georgia