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Moving Tips for Seniors by Lauren Berkowitz, Cheerful Transitions

Daunting. Overwhelming. Frustrating. The thought of moving almost always evokes these negative feeling when people consider the myriad tasks involved. No matter your age moving is always stressful. For older adults relocating is all the more challenging since they are usually downsizing into a smaller apartment, condominium or senior living community. Often there is no…

Climate Change may Cause us to Rethink Prepping for Hurricanes and Consider Working with a Public Adjuster

Public Adjusters are licensed and insured professionals who assist policyholders with their insurance claims.”Public Adjusters stand up for policyholders.” They know and understand how to evaluate the damages, caused by many different forms of losses that can occur to a person’s home or property; they understand how insurance policies work. From pipe-breaks to hurricanes, sink…

Your Misconception About the ‘Medicaid will take the house’ idea could land you in prison.

It is not unheard of for children or grandchildren to move into an elder’s home because they are not financially stable or they are going through a divorce. However, if those relatives become a caregiver to the elder that owns the home they must put the elder’s needs above their own personal interests (i.e. fear of losing…

AHCA’S Attempt to Reach a Medicaid Recipient’s Tort Recovery is Thwarted.

On July 5, 2018 (how appropo one day after Independence Day) the Florida Supreme Court ruled that under federal law AHCA may only reach the past medical expenses portion of a Medicaid recipient’s tort recovery to satisfy its Medicaid third party liability lien. See Giraldo v. ACHA (No. SC17-297). This ruling now resolves the conflict between the Second…

It is important to have legal documents in place that create a management system in the event of incapacity.

Our clients know how important it is to have legal documents in place that create a management system in the event of incapacity. That is the first of several very important planning steps. Equally important is to learn to be a strong and zealous advocate. The word „advocate‟ means a person who pleads a case…