by Sara Yen | Special Needs
Can you identify that one person who is an expert in disability law, housing, medicine, social work and knows all the members of your family and how they interact with each other? If you can, then they are the natural choice to serve as trustee of any Special Needs...
by Sara Yen | Special Needs
On December 19, 2014, President Obama signed the Achieving a Better Life Experience Act (ABLE Act) into law. The ABLE Act will allow certain individuals with disabilities to establish tax-free savings accounts that can be used to cover expenses not otherwise covered...
by Sara Yen | Special Needs
Parents of children with special needs must be concerned with ensuring that medical and financial decisions will continue to be made in the child’s best interest once the child reaches age 18 — the age of legal capacity. In most states, once a child...
by Sara Yen | Estate Planning, Special Needs
You may have heard the terms “special” needs trust and “supplemental” needs trust and wondered what the difference is. The short answer is that there’s no difference. Here’s the long answer. When the field of special needs planning...
