For most people their residence is far and away their single most valuable asset. So, it’s no doubt that one of the most pressing questions we get during Asset Preservation Planning is: “Well, if I am facing nursing home placement, how can I protect my residence from being lost to the cost of my care?” […]
What Will Happen to the Assets That I Transfer Into an Asset Preservation Trust?
If you’ve watched some of our other videos, or looked around our website, you’ll know that for most people the best way to protect their assets from long-term care costs is to put them into a special kind of trust that we call an Asset Preservation Trust. Think of it as putting things into a […]
Alzheimer’s and the Five-Year Look-Back Period: The time to plan is NOW!
You may have heard me speak in other videos about the five-year look-back period for Medicaid. Well, if somebody upon a first diagnosis of Alzheimer’s engages in planning to direct his or her life savings from long-term care costs, most frequently that can be done at least five years in advance of nursing home placement. […]
Do I Have to Cash In My Investments to Put Them In an Asset Preservation Trust?
The main vehicle we use to help people protect their assets, including investments such as stocks, bonds, mutual funds and CDs, from long-term care costs is called an Asset Preservation Trust. Sometimes, however, when people hear “putting assets into a trust” it leads them to an unfortunate misunderstanding that they will have to cash in […]
Will I have to pay gift tax when I put assets into an asset preservation trust?
One of the questions that we often get when we talk about the details of asset preservation trusts is whether or not putting your assets into one, to protect your life savings from long-term care costs, will require you to pay gift tax on it. When people think about gift taxes, they usually just think about […]
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