Carmel trust attorneys can help you with creating a trust so you can use this important and versatile legal tool to protect your assets and provide a legacy for your loved ones. Creating a trust can be more complicated and costly than creating a last will and testament, so you may wonder why you would bother with trust creation if you could just make a last will and testament to specify who inherits. The reality is that a trust is often better than a will for lots of different reasons, and both … [Read more...]
Medicaid Attorneys Offer Tips for Caregivers
Medicaid attorneys can help those who are getting older and who are concerned about their future. We can also provide assistance to caregivers who take care of family members or other loved ones. Being a caregiver can be hard, but there are resources and supports available to help make the process easier. At Frank & Kraft, we can help caregivers to explore their options for getting assistance and for making sure the loved one they are taking care of is as protected as possible. If you … [Read more...]
Frank & Kraft Published 1,000th Blog Post
The estate planning attorneys at Frank & Kraft are excited and proud to announce that our firm has reached a major milestone: we've now published 1,000 blog posts on our website. We're excited that we've hit this milestone for lots of reasons: we've had a great time publishing this blog to educate readers and we hope that we've made a difference in people's lives by making the concepts of estate planning easy. Estate planning can be a difficult subject for people because no one likes to … [Read more...]
Indiana’s Medicaid Program Helps Patients — But Causes Frustration
A Medicaid planning attorney can provide you with help making sure you can get access to means-tested benefits in case you require expensive medical care you have no other way to pay for. Medicaid is often considered an insurer of last resort. It's health coverage provided through the government for low-income individuals and many seniors with limited means also rely upon it to cover the costs of nursing home care as they get older. Because the program is means-tested however, it can … [Read more...]
Myths and Misconceptions About Living Trusts
Indianapolis living trust attorneys can help you to create a living trust, choose a backup trustee, and fund your trust so it can provide benefits for you and protections to your loved ones. Creating a living trust has many significant advantages and there are many reasons why you may decide that making this type of trust is right for you. However, misunderstandings of what this trust can do are very common, so you want to make sure you understand the limitations and the alternatives before you … [Read more...]
Why Seniors Face Problems if They Don’t have a Nursing Home Plan
Nursing home attorneys can work closely with you to help you create a plan in case you must go into a nursing home. It is important to be prepared for the possibility to avoid stress for your family, financial hardship and the possibility of ending up in a nursing home that will not provide the high quality care that you both need and deserve as a senior. Frank & Kraft can help you to craft a comprehensive and detailed nursing home plan that allows you to be prepared in case illness or … [Read more...]
How to Keep Your Estate Affairs Private
Estate planning attorneys help you to implement plans that allow you to accomplish your goals for your legacy. This means identifying what you hope to achieve through the creation of an estate plan and then making effective use of legal tools so those goals are realized. There are many different reasons for creating an estate plan and many different goals most people have when they begin the process. Protecting wealth and providing for loved ones are typically the goals at the top of the … [Read more...]
Top Reasons Trust Administration is Better Than Probate
Carmel probate lawyers can provide help facilitating the transfer of assets during the probate process. As Investopedia explains, this process can be a lengthy and expensive one. An executor of an estate has many responsibilities during the probate process and heirs or beneficiaries also need to make sure that they are monitoring the process careful and that the executor is living up to his fiduciary duty. Both the executor and those who stand to inherit should have legal help. Frank & … [Read more...]
How to Choose a Nursing Home That Provides High Quality Care
Carmel nursing home attorneys can help you to prepare for the possibility that you will some day need to move into a nursing home. Around 70 percent of people who are aged 65 or older will end up needing nursing home care during their lifetimes, according to Wall Street Journal so it makes a lot of sense to prepare in advance for what happens if you become one of the majority of seniors who needs care. By planning in advance, you spare your family from having to scramble to find you care, you … [Read more...]
Top Mistakes People Make When Creating a Trust
Trust lawyers will help you to make effective use of trusts to protect your assets and to ensure that your family is provided for in the most appropriate way. Trusts are powerful and versatile so you can use them to accomplish many important goals. Unfortunately, many people make mistakes during the process of creating trusts that undermine their efforts to use these tools successfully to achieve their desired aims. Frank & Kraft can help you to make sure that does not happen. Trust … [Read more...]
