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Should An Unmarried Couple Get Married If One Partner Needs Long-Term Care?

In this Elder Law Minute video, Wes Coulson, Southern Illinois Elder Law attorney, answers the question on whether an unmarried couple should get married if one partner needs long-term care and explains why, in terms of Asset Preservation Planning and Medicaid eligibility, the answer is Yes, they definitely should. | Coulson Elder Law

We occasionally get the question about whether or not an unmarried couple should get married if one of them needs long-term care. This question may seem unusual, but in the case of couples who have gotten together later in life and didn’t marry to honor a spouse they are widowed from, or in the case […]

Choosing The Right Level Of Care For Your Loved One With Alzheimer’s

In this Elder Law Minute video, Wes Coulson, Southern Illinois Elder Law attorney, presents another topic covered in The Alzheimer’s Guide: Practical Advice for Families, Caregivers and Professionals and discusses insights from the chapter on Finding The Right Level Of Care for someone on the Alzheimer's journey. | Coulson Elder Law

Choosing the right level of care for your loved one can be daunting. Older adults and adults with Alzheimer’s typically want to remain in their own homes for as long as possible, sometimes at risk of their needs not being fully met or of having insufficient resources available to meet them. Considering all options is […]

Asset Preservation Planning and Financial Powers of Attorney: Why yours may not stack up at a critical time

In this Elder Law Minute, Wes Coulson, Southern Illinois Elder Law attorney, discusses financial powers of attorney and explains the importance of having asset preservation tools in place so the power of attorney will protect your life savings at a critical time. | Coulson Elder Law

What financial powers of attorney include and don’t include can end up making a tremendous difference at a critical time. For people concerned with asset preservation planning, this is incredibly important. Think of the financial power of attorney as a tool kit, one that you’re building for the person that you’re naming as agent to do things […]

Alzheimer’s, Family Member Caregivers, and Medicaid and VA Benefits

In this Elder Law Minute, Wes Coulson, Southern Illinois Elder Law attorney, discusses ways to compensate family member caregivers for those with Alzheimer's relative to Medicaid and VA benefits. | Coulson Elder Law

Government statistics show that literally hundreds of billions of dollars of uncompensated care is provided by family member caregivers to those with Alzheimer’s. This opens up a great planning opportunity for both Medicaid and VA benefits. It is possible to compensate family member caregivers and not have the payments count as gifts, if done correctly […]

Married Couples and Medicaid: Your Residence

Wes Coulson, Southern Illinois Elder Law attorney, discusses another topic from the video series Married Couples and Medicaid and explains a planning opportunity that makes it possible to protect the residence in the case where one spouse goes into a nursing home. | Coulson Elder Law

The opportunity to protect your residence when one person of a married couple goes into a nursing home is different, consistent with Medicaid eligibility, than if you are a single couple. For married couples, while the spouse who is going to apply for Medicaid can only keep $2,000 worth of assets, the spouse who is not in […]

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