Creating a comprehensive estate plan to ensure that your estate assets are distributed according to your wishes is certainly important. What you may not realize, however, is that planning for the possibility of your own incapacity is equally important. The Glastonbury living trust lawyers at Nirenstein, Horowitz & Associates, P.C. explain how incorporating a living trust into your overall estate plan can help protect you against the possibility of your own incapacity. Why Is Incapacity … [Read more...]
What Can You Do If You Don’t Want To Be Kept Alive on a Machine?
Hartford elder law attorneys help seniors to address issues that are most important to them as they plan for their future. While you may want to focus on making plans for a happy and secure retirement and considering how to achieve other positive goals, it is also essential that you plan ahead in case disaster strikes. If something happens to you and you get seriously hurt or badly injured, you and your family will be in a much better situation if you have made plans for what should happen when … [Read more...]
5 Benefits of Incapacity Planning
Hartford elder law lawyers provide help with the incapacity planning process. Making an incapacity plan is not just something that seniors should do, but is important for people of all ages. An incapacity plan helps you to specify what should happen to you, and to your property and assets, if you become sick or hurt and temporarily cannot communicate or manage your own affairs. Nirenstein, Horowitz & Associates will explain to you what types of legal tools can be a part of your … [Read more...]
How a Hartford Trust Attorney Helps You Plan for Incapacity
A Hartford trust attorney can provide you with invaluable assistance in making plans in case you become incapacitated. You need to ensure that your assets are appropriately protected and managed, even if you have a medical issue that prevents you from managing them. While this can be a challenge, an experienced legal professional can help you to make use of the tools that you need under Connecticut law to keep your wealth safe and secure. Asset protection and incapacity planning are … [Read more...]
Alzheimer’s Disease, Guardianship, and Incapacity Planning
Alzheimer's Disease, Guardianship, and Incapacity Planning from Barry D Horowitz When you plan your estate, you tackle some difficult realities that people are not especially anxious to think about. You address things that will take place after you are gone, but you should also consider the eventualities that could present themselves toward the end of your life. … [Read more...]
Why Is a Durable Power of Attorney Different?
To be comprehensively prepared for the eventualities of aging, you should consider the possibility of future incapacity. While this may not be the most pleasant subject to address, it is important to take action to protect yourself, because incapacity is quite common among elder Americans. Understand the Facts When you are capable of making your own decisions all of your life, it may be hard to imagine a time when you can no longer handle your own affairs. This is understandable, but as life … [Read more...]
Are Your Durable Powers of Attorney in Place?
Sometimes an individual wants to empower another person to act on his or her behalf in a legally binding manner. There are various different reasons why this dynamic may be in place, and the situation can be addressed through the creation of a legally binding document called a power of attorney. To provide a simple overview, the person who is granting this power to another is called the principal or the grantor. The individual who is going to be empowered to make decisions on behalf of the … [Read more...]
Are Your Advance Directives in Place?
Incapacity planning is part of the equation if you want to be comprehensively prepared for the eventualities of aging. Many people become unable to communicate medical decisions at the end of their lives, and you can account for this through the creation of legal documents called advance directives for health care. Life Support During our modern era, medical professionals can sometimes use artificial life-sustaining measures to keep terminal patients alive for indefinite periods of time. … [Read more...]
How Can I Prevent a Guardianship?
When you are planning your estate, you are taking care of things that will take place after you pass away. Without question, this is a very important part of the equation, but you should also address end-of-life issues. Many people become unable to handle all of their own decision-making at some point in time. This is largely due to the widespread nature of Alzheimer's disease. If you would like to obtain detailed information about the disease, you may want to visit the Alzheimer's Association … [Read more...]
What Is End of Life Planning?
Estate planning involves making preparations for the things that will happen after you pass away, but you should also consider the period of time that will precede your passing. These years are sometimes called the twilight years. First off, you should consider the possibility of long-term care expenses. According to a government agency, seven out of every 10 seniors will someday need help with their activities of daily living. Long-term care is something that most people will need; it is a … [Read more...]
