Wills, Estate Planning, Guardianships and Medicaid
Atty. Theodore D. Kafkas provides legal services to help people with wills/trusts, powers of attorney, estate planning, elder law, Medicaid, guardianship and probate.
Important legal documents, advice and planning can often help reduce the stress for individuals and their loved ones at the time of critical medical needs or death.*
Some example questions arise:
- Who will be guardian of minor children if the parent(s) die?
- What about nominating a guardian in a will for adult children with special situations?
- How will finances and real estate be handled if the owner is in a severe accident and is in a coma?
- How will healthcare decisions be made if a person becomes unable to communicate because of a severe stroke?
- What about life support and feeding tubes?
- Is someone expecting to go into a nursing home?
- What about Medicaid?
- How can the costs of a court guardianship often be avoided?
- What is a Guardian ad Litem?
- What about trusts and/or probate when death occurs?
- What about life insurance?
- What does a person want done with their burial and/or other funeral arrangements?
*Each case is unique. Success in one case does not mean success in other future cases.