Question: If, as seniors, we sell a jointly-owned primary residence and we split the proceeds, will the assets be protected if one of us ends up in a Medicaid nursing home? Response: I’m [...]

Question: Though I have read some of your related articles, I still am not quite clear: in the case of an institutionalized spouse with a healthy community spouse who lives in their home, will a [...]

Question: Spouse is in nursing home on Medicaid. Well spouse is allowed to keep their home. Is the well spouse allowed to sell the home and rent in a cheaper neighborhood or purchase a condo or [...]

Question: My husband has been in a nursing home for two years already. I need to sell 5 rental homes that I cannot manage and don’t want any more. Can I sell them if they are on my name? [...]

Question: Can someone applying for Medicaid transfer a $50,000 fave value universal life policy with a cash value of $1,906 to a spouse under the spousal impoverishment rules? Response: Yes. [...]

Federal Medicaid law permits the community spouse to keep all of his or her assets even if they exceed the standard spousal allowance of $130,380 (in 2021) by simply refusing to support the [...]