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Posts from the ‘Elder Law’ Category

0February 2, 2024Preserving Assets and Maximum Income for the Community Spouse in 2024 When the Institutionalized Spouse Enters a Nursing Home and Applies for MassHealth

0November 17, 2023The MCLE Book Entitled “Elder and Disability Law in Massachusetts” Has Been Published

0October 9, 2023The United States Supreme Court Still Has Not Decided Whether to Take up Our Massachusetts Cases on Annuities of Community Spouses

0October 6, 2023The Massachusetts Legislature Has Finally Raised the Massachusetts Estate Tax Exemption to $2,000,000.00, Yet Many People Will Still Move Away Because of Our Estate Tax

0June 30, 2023Minimum Monthly Maintenance Needs (Income) Allowance for Nursing Home Resident’s Spouse Is Now $2,465.00 from 7/1/2023 until 6/30/2024

0June 9, 2023In Rudnick v. Rudnick, the Massachusetts Appeals Court Reiterates That a Prenuptial Agreement Must Be Reasonable at the Time of Divorce

0June 8, 2023The Dermody and Mondor Cases on Spousal Annuities Have Been Appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court

0May 12, 2023Terminally Ill Persons Can Now Travel to Vermont to Take Advantage of Its Medical Aid In Dying Law

0March 13, 2023In Dermody v. Executive Office of Health and Human Services, the Supreme Judicial Court Rules that the Annuities of Community Spouses Must Name the Commonwealth of Massachusetts as Beneficiary

0July 26, 2022Minimum Monthly Maintenance Needs Allowance for Nursing Home Resident’s Spouse Increased to $2,288.75 during 7/1/2022-6/30/2023

1September 30, 2021In Hornibrook v. Richard, the SJC Sidesteps Its Responsibilities and May Have Made Practicing Law in Massachusetts Probate Court More Complicated

0July 27, 2021In Fournier v. Secretary of the Executive Office of Health and Human Services, the Supreme Judicial Court Has Eliminated Most of the MassHealth Agency’s Convoluted Arguments Against Irrevocable Trusts

0July 15, 2021The SECURE Act Has Changed How a Large IRA Should Be Dealt With in an Estate Plan

1January 28, 2020Here Is the Massachusetts State Plan on Medicaid, Unavailable Online

0September 17, 2019Does “Imputed Driving Value” Somehow Make an Irrevocable Trust a Countable Asset for MassHealth Purposes?

0September 13, 2019An Analysis of the Newly-Discovered “Law Review Form for Trusts” Utilized by MassHealth Lawyers

1August 7, 2019Are Lawyers Who Represent the MassHealth Agency Complicit in Hiding Secret Trust Regulations?

0January 28, 2019Does the Lifetime Lien Placed on Real Estate by the MassHealth Agency Terminate Upon the MassHealth Recipient’s Death?

0January 25, 2019Update on the Maas/Hirvi Litigation, Requiring the MassHealth Agency to Issue Proper Denial Notices and Act with Reasonable Promptness

0June 4, 2018Update on Spousal Refusal for MassHealth Purposes