VA Program Adds Divestment Rules and More
By Doug Chalgian on September 18, 2018
The so-called “Aid and Attendance” pension has become an important source of income for older adults needing long term care services, and an important source of business for...
MSC Takes Its Shot at Estate Recovery
By Doug Chalgian on August 1, 2017
The Michigan Supreme Court has released an opinion in four combined cases all involving Michigan's Medicaid Estate Recovery Program. As we've learned from prior posts, the Michigan Court of Appeals...
Estate Recovery – Last Gasp or Second Wind
By Doug Chalgian on January 11, 2017
Thursday, January 12, the Michigan Supreme Court is scheduled to hear oral arguments in several combined matters all relating to the issue of Medicaid estate recovery. The main...
Two Happy Notes
By Doug Chalgian on December 8, 2016
On the topic of self-settled special needs trusts (aka Medicaid Pay-Back Trusts; aka D4A Trusts), the “Special Needs Trust Fairness Act” has passed both houses of Congress and...
Lame Duck Legislature Lays Golden Egg – BIG TIME
By Doug Chalgian on December 3, 2016
DAPT – learn it and love it. Soon it will be all the talk. Domestic asset protection trusts. The news is that the Michigan legislature has approved a...
A Bridge Too Far
By Doug Chalgian on October 19, 2016
When clients come in with really difficult problems, we all try to come up with creative solutions to get them out of the jam. But there is a...
New Policy undermines LTC Partnership Insurance Benefits
By Doug Chalgian on July 22, 2016
Foolish me. I got excited about the implementation of a long term care insurance partnership program in Michigan, and have written about it here several times. As previously...
Four Companies Approved to Sell LTCI Partnership Policies
By Doug Chalgian on April 12, 2016
Topic: The Long Term Care Insurance Partnership Program. Background: This topic was previously addressed in these posts: LTC Insurance Partnership Shows Signs of Life (posted March 29, 2015);...
And So It Ends – Perhaps
By Doug Chalgian on March 2, 2016
The Ketchum case discussed in more detail in a prior post was just released. It is a published Court of Appeals opinion. Click here to read the case....
Ketching Up on Estate Recovery
By Doug Chalgian on February 1, 2016
Tomorrow, Tuesday, is a red letter day in the elder law world. The Court of Appeals will hear oral arguments in the matter of In Re Estate of...
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About The Author: Doug ChalgianI am an estate planning, probate litigating, elder law attorney. This is a blog for clients and professional colleagues. In it I offer my ideas about the state of the law and the practice of law. I believe we are living through a unique period during which the law (which is traditionally slow to change) and society are attempting to evolve to address the explosion of people living long lives. I find these developments fascinating and enjoy being involved in this evolution. |