Navigating Special Needs Trusts: Ensuring a Secure Future for Your Loved One
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Navigating Special Needs Trusts: Ensuring a Secure Future for Your Loved One

Planning for the future is crucial, especially when it involves loved ones with unique needs. Special Needs Trusts are a powerful tool that can provide financial security while safeguarding important benefits. At Rudman Winchell, our estate planning attorneys, together with the exceptional staff at Maine Fiduciary Services, specialize in guiding families through the intricate journey…

FIFTEEN MYTHS REGARDING MEDICAID NURSING HOME BENEFITS IN MAINE MYTH 3 and 4

This series highlights the eligibility rules for Maine Medicaid (MaineCare) nursing home benefits and dispels certain myths the families that work with our office often hear. Myth 3: If I Put My Property in My Spouse’s Name, I Will Be Eligible for Medicaid. The Truth: This is not true when an individual is applying for…

Medicaid Estate Recovery: Will the State Take my House?

There is a lot of misinformation and confusion surrounding estate recovery and the Maine Medicaid (MaineCare) long-term care benefit. One of the biggest fears we hear from aging Mainers is, “I don’t want the State to take my house.” That only happens in the context of a process called estate recovery. Estate recovery can only…