Special Needs Planning for Families of Persons with Disabilities

Have you planned for the future of your loved one with special needs?

At Elder Law Associates PA, our attorneys will help you with Medicaid Planning and planning for your loved one with special needs trusts and comprehensive estate planning. Special Needs Planning is one of our core practice areas.

We recognize that caregivers do not add up the cost of support and caring for an individual with a disability. Caregivers provide many services naturally and willingly to loved ones to help enhance their quality of life:

• Advocate
• Social service coordinator
• Companion
• Guardianship
• Job coach
• Chauffeur
• Personal care attendant
• Money manager
• Recreation director

If you become unable to provide these services or die without planning for the continuation of these services, your loved one's quality of life may suffer.

How our experienced attorneys can help.

• Establish comprehensive care plans organized so that monies for your loved one with special needs will not be at risk from estate taxes or the long term care costs of caregivers
• Apply and qualify for SSI benefits for a person with disabilities
• Apply and qualify for Medicaid for a person with disabilities
• Provide for a person with special needs in your Will
• Apply for Guardianship
• Set up a Special Needs Trust
• Set up a Supplemental Needs Trust
• Inform you of the estate planning options available to you

Our attorneys assist our clients with long term care and asset preservation and protection planning for loved ones with disabilities:

• Asset protection plans
• Special needs trusts
• Supplemental needs trusts
• Family trusts and agreements
• Family care agreements
• Durable powers of attorney
• Health care proxies and living wills
• Medicaid applications and appeals for nursing home and assisted living facility care
• SSI disability