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Attorney Indicted for Social Security Disability Fraud
May 19th, 2016
A notorious attorney who called himself "Mr. Social Security" has been indicted for fraud. This is good news for families of children with special needs and for seniors. Kentucky attorney Eric Conn built one of the largest Social Security D…
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Categories: Aging Issues, Current Affairs, Elder Abuse, Estate Planning, Long Term Care, Medicaid, Special Needs, Succession, Taxes, Trust Funding, Weblogs, Will
Special Needs Estate Planning
April 15th, 2016
Families with members who have special needs that require continuing care have some estate planning options to make sure that care is provided fairly. When an adult child has special needs that require the help and support of parents it is important…
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Categories: Aging Issues, Current Affairs, Estate Planning, Long Term Care, Medicaid, Special Needs, Taxes, Trust Funding, Weblogs, Will
New Nursing Home Quality Measurements
March 25th, 2016
The federal government has announced six new measurements for its system of comparing the quality of care patients receive at nursing homes. Anyone interested in information about the quality of a nursing home can go to Medicare's website and us…
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Categories: Aging Issues, Current Affairs, Elder Abuse, Elder Law, Estate Planning, Long Term Care, Medicaid, Special Needs, Weblogs, Will
Special Needs Attorney Testifies Before Congress
October 27th, 2015
Richard A. Courtney, President of the Special Needs Alliance (SNA) and principal in the Courtney Elder Law Associates section of Frascogna Courtney, PLLC, testified Friday, September 18 before the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee Subcommittee…
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Special Needs Trust Fairness Act Passes in Senate
October 9th, 2015
People with special needs have won an important victory in the Senate where the Special Needs Trust Fairness Act passed unanimously. However, the fight is not over. For people with disabilities, special needs trusts are often a vital way to protect a…
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Special-Purpose Trusts for the Mentally Ill and Those Suffering from Addiction
September 10th, 2015
It was the summer between her sophomore and junior year at the University of Wisconsin-Madison when Patti Sacher’s daughter Keisha had a breakdown. She had taken LSD at a Grateful Dead concert one weekend in 1989. When Mrs. Sacher called to check o…
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Making Long-term Plans for Family Members with Special Needs in Ann Arbor
October 24th, 2012
With each passing election season, the conversations about the cost of government-provided health care and Social Security get more urgent. But debates about the deserving and the undeserving and the proper level of budgets and taxes tend to gloss ov…
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