Question: We’re advised to use difficult passwords for our various online accounts and to keep changing them in order to avoid being hacked. But how do you keep track of these and provide the information to whoever will take over for you in the event of incapacity or death? Response: This is difficult. One option
Question: I have a client with an irrevocable Medicaid trust. That trust gives him a limited testamentary power of appointment he would like to exercise in order to direct the assets stay in trust for his son (rather than have them go outright to the son at client’s death per the terms of the trust).
Question: I need a lawyer in Florida to help me resign my POA. How do I go about finding one? Response: Are you revoking your durable power of attorney or are you resigning as the agent under someone else’s power of attorney? Neither is difficult to accomplish and you probably don’t need a lawyer. If
Question: My partner is on disability. As a senior, she is on basic Medicare, but as a person on disability, she also has Medicaid, (which, I believe, effectively functions in her case as the equivalent of both the Medicare Supplement, and Part D policies). She currently owns a house in Vermont, where she is a
Question: My partner and I are not legally married, but are a committed couple. If either of us are hospitalized, does the other have the same legal hospital visitation rights as married partners do? And if not, is there paper-work that can document and secure that right? Response: No, you don’t have the same rights
Question: If my partner were to sell her house in Vermont, and become a legal resident of Massachusetts, would her Medicaid status automatically transfer into the Massachusetts Medicaid program, given her federal disability status, or would there be some risk of her NOT being accepted into Massachusetts’s Medicaid system? Response: No, this would not be
