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...
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Five Things You Need to Know About the Recently Enacted ABLE Act
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...
Making Decisions for a Child with Special Needs Who Becomes an Adult
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...
What’s the Difference Between ‘Supplemental’ and ‘Special’ Needs Trusts?
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...

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