The combination of an aging population and a continual upsurge in instances of Alzheimer’s disease and other aging-associated diseases and disorders, paired with the steady rise of long-term care costs, makes the implementation of elder law strategies essential to ensuring the holistic legal, financial, and well-being protection for our clients.
Tarter Krinsky & Drogin’s Elder Law Practice works with our clients to put in place legal documents, including powers of attorney and health care proxies, customized for the elderly. While we endeavor to encourage planning in advance for eventual incapacity or infirmity, we also help families in crisis when advance planning is absent or insufficient.
Our elder law planning attorneys have more than six decades of experience in preparing and implementing appropriate plans for our elderly clients, including traditional estate planning, planning for incapacity, Medicaid planning, tax planning, and guardianship.
Our attorneys have experience in navigating New York’s complicated Medicaid system, including how to best protect assets if long-term care costs will be prohibitive and the family is afraid of losing their family home or their modest savings. For certain cases, setting up an irrevocable trust may be appropriate to protect assets and give families some peace of mind. In instances where advance planning was not done, we work with families on crisis planning, including gift/note planning and other strategies, to preserve assets, when possible.
We advise clients on long-term care policies, as well as Medicare and Medicaid and how services such as home care, nursing home care, and hospice are covered under these various insurances and the best strategies to maximize the care their loved one needs.
Representative Matters
- Advising adult daughter on discharge planning for a parent who is being threatened with a guardianship proceeding for not agreeing to a discharge plan from a hospital that did not accommodate the language needs of the elderly patient.
- Guiding an adult child as power of attorney for his father who has dementia on how to implement home care and also manage and protect works of art created by the father during his lifetime. While the father is an established and known artist, his work only started to be displayed late in his life, leaving little liquidity for his growing long-term care needs.
- Representing a foreign guardian in a proceeding to appoint an ancillary guardian in New York to manage property needs in New York.
- Representing a family member to bring a motion to have a court appointed guardian account for their actions.
