Compassionate legal guidance for life's most important decisions. Protecting families through every stage of the elder care journey.
The Elder Care Law Center provides comprehensive legal services designed to protect your assets, ensure your wishes are honored, and provide peace of mind for you and your family.
Navigate complex Medicaid qualification requirements while protecting your assets and ensuring quality care.
Comprehensive wills, trusts, and estate plans to protect your legacy and provide for your loved ones.
Designate trusted individuals to make important healthcare decisions on your behalf.
Professional guidance through the complex estate administration and probate process.
Authorize trusted persons to manage your financial affairs and property decisions.
Legal protection and advocacy for those who cannot make decisions for themselves.
A health care power of attorney designates a trusted person to make health care decisions on your behalf if you become incapacitated. Without a health care power of attorney your family might have no choice but to seek a court-appointed guardianship, an oftentimes expensive and time-consuming process, so that important decisions can be made on your behalf.
An advance directive (living will) document allows you to choose what health care or method(s) of treatment are to be administered to you should you ever become permanently unconsciousness or diagnosed with an end-stage condition where there is no realistic hope of recovery. In this document the person expresses just what measures he or she wants to sustain life as well as those which are not desired.
The advanced directive or living will is usually prepared in conjunction with a health care power of attorney. Every adult should have these documents to ensure their wishes are carried out and also reduce the burden on their loved ones in such a stressful and difficult time.
The estate administration and probate process can be complicated for individuals who have virtually no experience in these matters. If you have been named executor or administrator of an estate or trustee of a trust, our attorneys will provide you with the legal guidance and support to help you successfully navigate through the administration process.
In addition to a standard law degree, Gerry Woods holds an LL.M. in tax with an emphasis on estate planning. Estate administration and trust administration are detail-oriented areas of law with various tax implications involved. Gerry's significant experience and advanced knowledge with respect to the tax consequences of estate matters can ensure that any tax-related matters that arise are adequately addressed.
The Elder Care Law Center provides estate, trust, Orphan's Court and tax services including estate administration and trust administration.
A financial (or property) power of attorney allows you to designate a trusted person to make decisions on your behalf with respect to the management of your affairs and disposition of your property. This is an especially important estate planning tool if you ever become incapacitated.
Without a financial power of attorney prepared by an experienced elder law attorney you may not be able to take advantage of Medicaid planning, which seeks to protect your assets by avoiding a nursing home spend-down. Without a financial power of attorney your family might be forced to seek a court-appointed guardianship so that important and time sensitive decisions can be made on your behalf concerning the ongoing management of your affairs, which is an oftentimes expensive and time-consuming process.
Our attorneys are happy to answer your estate planning questions. Contact us today to discuss your concerns and develop a comprehensive plan of action.