Harvey Law Offices focuses on assisting elder and disabled clients maintain their independence and their assets to the extent possible. Attorney Harvey regularly appears in probate court to obtain guardianship and conservatorship authority for family members whose loved ones are no longer able to make their own decisions.
Whether your family is dealing with an elder who has been diagnosed with advanced dementia or Alzheimer's disease, a disabled child who is reaching adulthood or someone who has suffered a traumatic brain injury, Attorney Harvey can help you handle the legal details so you can focus on your loved one.Harvey Law Offices also works to avoid these situations by proper estate planning, such as wills, durable powers of attorney, health care proxies and medical care directives.
Attorney Harvey also advises families of children with special needs to properly plan for their child's continuing needs and goals. She helps protect assets through the use of wills, trusts, including supplemental needs trusts, transferring or re-titling property and other methods so that if long-term medical expenses or nursing home care is required, your family is prepared to deal with the cost.
Whether your family is dealing with an elder who has been diagnosed with advanced dementia or Alzheimer's disease, a disabled child who is reaching adulthood or someone who has suffered a traumatic brain injury, Attorney Harvey can help you handle the legal details so you can focus on your loved one.Harvey Law Offices also works to avoid these situations by proper estate planning, such as wills, durable powers of attorney, health care proxies and medical care directives.
Attorney Harvey also advises families of children with special needs to properly plan for their child's continuing needs and goals. She helps protect assets through the use of wills, trusts, including supplemental needs trusts, transferring or re-titling property and other methods so that if long-term medical expenses or nursing home care is required, your family is prepared to deal with the cost.
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When someone is incapacitated by illness or injury, he is no longer able to make or communicate his own medical or financial decisions.
Our grandson was born with cerebral palsy.
We want to provide for him in our Wills, but we don't want to interfere with his ability to receive government benefits when he gets older.
What can we do?
You are wise to be concerned.
Many governmental benefits are based on income and assets, and someone who has more than a certain amount of money may not be eligible for benefits even though he is not able to support himself on his own.
Our grandson was born with cerebral palsy.
We want to provide for him in our Wills, but we don't want to interfere with his ability to receive government benefits when he gets older.
What can we do?
You are wise to be concerned.
Many governmental benefits are based on income and assets, and someone who has more than a certain amount of money may not be eligible for benefits even though he is not able to support himself on his own.
Estate planning is the broad name given to a series of documents that will allow you to decide how matters will be handled if you are no longer able to make your own decisions while you are alive and who will be in charge of handling your affairs after you pass away.
Because the particular documents that will make up an estate plan can vary greatly by individual and by family, Attorney Harvey listens to your needs and desires before recommending any course of action.
No matter what other documents are suggested, each estate plan will have at least a durable power of attorney and a health care proxy.
Because the particular documents that will make up an estate plan can vary greatly by individual and by family, Attorney Harvey listens to your needs and desires before recommending any course of action.
No matter what other documents are suggested, each estate plan will have at least a durable power of attorney and a health care proxy.
Once a child becomes 18, he is an adult in the eyes of the law.
If your child has special needs that interfere with his ability to make some or all of his life decisions, you can ask a court to let you make them for him.
Attorney Harvey often assists families in getting a parent or other trusted adult appointed as guardian or conservator to make only those decisions, whether medical or financial, that the soon-to-be adult cannot make without help.
She will collaborate with your child's doctor and team at school to determine which decisions he can make on his own and which he cannot, based on his unique capabilities.
If your child has special needs that interfere with his ability to make some or all of his life decisions, you can ask a court to let you make them for him.
Attorney Harvey often assists families in getting a parent or other trusted adult appointed as guardian or conservator to make only those decisions, whether medical or financial, that the soon-to-be adult cannot make without help.
She will collaborate with your child's doctor and team at school to determine which decisions he can make on his own and which he cannot, based on his unique capabilities.
If a loved one is no longer able to make or communicate her own health care decisions and she has not named a health care proxy, you must ask that the Probate Court appoint someone to make those decisions for her.
This person, called a guardian, will be appointed by the court to make personal and medical decisions for your incapacitated family member.
In order to have a guardian appointed, you must file a petition with the court, along with a Bond.
In addition, you must specify, by way of a medical certificate signed by a doctor, the specific issues the person is dealing with that have left her unable to make her own decisions.
This person, called a guardian, will be appointed by the court to make personal and medical decisions for your incapacitated family member.
In order to have a guardian appointed, you must file a petition with the court, along with a Bond.
In addition, you must specify, by way of a medical certificate signed by a doctor, the specific issues the person is dealing with that have left her unable to make her own decisions.
If your loved one is incapacitated to the extent that he is no longer able to make his own financial or legal decisions for himself and he has not executed a durable power of attorney, then you must ask that a judge appoint someone to do that for him.
This person, called a conservator, will be authorized to make financial and legal decisions for the incapacitated individual.
The procedure for conservatorship is almost identical to that for guardianship, and includes filing a petition, bond and medical certificate with the Probate Court.
This person, called a conservator, will be authorized to make financial and legal decisions for the incapacitated individual.
The procedure for conservatorship is almost identical to that for guardianship, and includes filing a petition, bond and medical certificate with the Probate Court.
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