AgingOptions Life Plan: Legal

Ensuring that one’s wishes and directives are clear and carried out demands so much more than just getting some legal documents drawn up. The facilitation that an elder law attorney provides families in anticipating and planning around potential scenarios makes all the difference in not becoming a burden while preserving family harmony.

Read our selection of blog posts and articles below regarding legal issues you should consider.


Keeping estate plans up to date

Are you following through with your estate plans?  Here’s what I mean.  If you have a life insurance policy, do you still want it to go to the beneficiary you chose a decade ago?  Two decades ago?

Should you hire an elder law attorney?

It’s been at least 10 years since every news agency in the nation began proclaiming the approaching Boomer retirement wave.  So by now you are not surprised that the fastest growing segment of Americans is the elderly.  What that means to those of us who are prone to cynicism is that there are a lot of people looking to aging individuals for their paychecks. 

Planning for an aging population

What do you do when a society that has had as one of its core beliefs that the sacrifices of the parents for their children will be rewarded by caring for the parent in their old age when the child chooses to neglect that duty?  That’s the question that many countries are facing. 

How incapacity issues impact both legal and financial aspects of a person’s estate

If you have a loved one diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease or another disease that will impact their ability to function independently, you’re going to need legal help to handle the financial obligations that your loved one will incur or has already incurred. 

Senior housing options

There’s no place like home but where will your home be when you retire?