Question: My wife and I have a home with joint tenants with right of survivorship with my elderly mom. We have been taking care of her for a few years. We are thinking that a move to an assisted [...]

Question: My grandmother passed away in 2001 in Massachusetts and died intestate leaving her house. My uncle and mother are her direct descendants. My uncle lives in the house but is currently [...]

Question: I need information about divorcing my husband so he can get Medicaid coverage for nursing home care. Would I be able to retire without losing my pension, to live off of? I also own a [...]

Question: I read your response to the question of how to rearrange assets to give an elderly person access to Medicaid services, including possible long term care. I wonder about the ethics of [...]

Question: If a disabled adult child clause has prohibited the Medicaid estate recovery on her dad’s estate, can the probate attorney who advised the sale of the property then divide the proceeds [...]

Question: My husband is a long-term patient in a nursing home and is on Medicare and Medicaid. Can he be a co-signer on a student loan for his granddaughter? There are no assets in his name but [...]

Question: I have a married couple who want an irrevocable trust as they are concerned with asset protection and long-term care. They are close enough to having a Massachusetts estate tax where it [...]

Question: My husband and I live in Massachusetts. He is 75, and I am 73. We are in relatively good health, no pre-existing conditions. Our liquid assets are approximately $200,000. We own two [...]

Question: Mother and daughter are joint tenants with right of survivorship in mother’s condo. If they want to transfer the condo to an irrevocable trust, but reserve a life estate to the [...]

Question: My wife and I jointly own our residence as tenants by the entirety. I have two adult children and grandchildren from my first marriage and two adult children and grandchildren from my [...]