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Oast & Hook is an Elder Law firm. We represent older persons, disabled persons, their families, and their advocates. The practice of Elder Law includes estate planning, investment and insurance advice, estate and trust administration, powers of attorney, advance medical directives, titling of assets and designations of beneficiaries, guardianships, conservatorships, and public entitlements such as Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security, and SSI, disability planning, income tax planning and preparation, bill paying and account management and reporting, care management, and fiduciary services. We also handle litigation involving these issues, such as will contests and estate administration disputes.

Barbara S. Hughes is a partner with the firm. Her practice emphasizes estate planning (including disability trusts), probate and trust administration, marital property, and elder law. She received her undergraduate and master's degrees from the University of Chicago (1964, 1968) and her law degree from the University of Wisconsin Law School (1986).

As a full service law firm, Johnson Carroll Norton Kent & Straus represents individuals and businesses in a variety of legal matters, including real estate, business, personal injury, general litigation, mineral law and estate planning. The attorneys at Johnson Carroll Norton Kent & Straus have distinguished themselves academically, professionally and in their community. Johnson Carroll Norton Kent & Straus is dedicated to providing high quality legal services in a cost effective manner.

Law Ofiices of Bridget O'Brien Swartz, PLLC is a private law firm whose special concerns are the financial and legal issues that a person with disabilities and their families must face in providing foe a lifetime of needs. We offer special needs planning to ensure that public benefits are preserved and quality of life is ensured.

Charlie and his staff at the Law Offices of Charles F. Robinson are personally and professionally committed to serving the needs of our clients and their families. We believe it is our obligation to stay current on laws and regulations affecting our clients, to anticipate changes in the law, and to advocate for responsible, fair and realistic improvements in the system. We offer comprehensive asset protection planning for the elderly and the incapacitated. We offer expertise in the rules and regulations of the Florida Medicaid Institutional Care Program (nursing homes). We offer years of experience and hundreds of successfully completed Medicaid applications. We offer estate planning and death planning as part of our asset protection planning process. We offer asset and trust administration for those who are unable or unwilling to manage. We offer our services either in person at our office or anywhere in the state of Florida by skilled use of the telephone, e-mail, and mail delivery.

Doris Hawks is an Elder Law attorney with over 12 years in this field. She has served on various community bioethics committees for over ten years as well as being a long-term member of the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys, where she is a Fellow and elected member of Council of Advanced Practitioners. She is a partner in the firm of Hawks and Comfort, LLP and her current practice focuses on all aspects of Elder Law.

Emily S. Starr, managing partner of the firm's Elder & Disability Law Group, concentrates primarily in the areas of Medicaid and estate planning, special needs trusts, guardianship and probate. She has a particular interest in preservation of personal injury awards through the use of Special Needs Trusts and is counsel to personal injury lawyers, disabled individuals, and trustees. Ms. Starr is certified as an Elder Law Attorney (CELA) by the National Elder Law Foundation [1] and is a member of the Special Needs Alliance

Aaron Feldman is a member of the American Society of Special Needs Planners and his practice focuses on your needs and the special needs of your child. His office handles all aspects of Estate Planning and Conservatorships as well as advising clients with respect to benefits programs.

Lauren Adams, PA dba Adams Law Firm concentrates in the areas of Elder Law, Trusts, Special Needs Trusts, Probate, Guardianship, Medicaid Planning and Bankruptcy. Lauren Adams has over ten years experience in the areas listed above and is also certified Attorney ad Litem who is court appointed to represent minors and the elderly in Court who lack capacity to represent themselves.

100% Estate Planning and Elder Law Anderson, Desimone & Green, PC provides comprehensive Estate Planning and Administration services to clients throughout Southwest Virginia. We devote 100% of our law practice to Estate Planning (Wills, Living Wills, Trusts, Powers of Attorney and Probate) and Elder Law (Guardianships, Asset Protection and Medicaid Planning). We are not a general practice law firm, but focus exclusively on planning and settling your affairs. We provide innovative, cutting edge solutions for you.

Biography: Born: Chapel Hill, North Carolina, October 28, 1961; Educated: University of North Carolina (A.B., 1984); Campbell University (J.D., cum laude, 1991); Campbell Law Review 1989-1991; Research Editor, 1990-1991; Member: Forsyth County, North Carolina (Member, Section Chairman, Elder Law Section) and American Bar Associations; North Carolina State Bar; National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys. Languages: German and Russian. Practice Areas: Elder Law, Long Term Care, Medicaid Planning, Estate Planning, Estate Administration, Special Needs Trust, Trust Administration, Guardianship Administration

Isenhour Bleck, PLLC is recognized throughout the State of Washington for our expertise in the area of government benefits for the elderly and disabled. We also work with clients of all ages on their estate planning issues.

Littman Krooks LLP is uniquely positioned to provide our clients with the quality of legal services customarily associated with large New York law firms, while also providing the personal attention and service that only small law firms can provide. The partners of the Firm have substantial experience in corporate and securities law, litigation and arbitration, real estate law and finance, and elder law, tax, trusts and estate matters, obtained at a number of New York leading law firms. We are able to combine the sophisticated legal advice and high level of legal intellect, expertise and innovation ordinarily associated with large law firms, with the personal attention, responsiveness and close lines of communication featured by smaller firms all on a more economical basis. These ingredients, which are the cornerstone of effective representation and are so necessary to a successful lawyer/client relationship, have become the foundation of the Firm's success.

The Law Offices of Bradley J. Frigon located in Englewood, Colorado, offers services in the preparation of wills, revocable and irrevocable trusts, health care proxies, living wills, life insurance trusts, durable powers of attorney, and other estate planning documents. We will develop a comprehensive estate plan for you and your family. Our focus is on minimizing estate taxes, preserving assets from catastrophic health care costs, and ensuring your continued security for the future. We can also advise you with respect to nursing home issues, long-term health care issues and gift and estate tax matters. We can assist in putting your affairs in order so as to minimize will contests and other problems that may occur at death.

In each area of practice, our attorneys have the legal expertise and experience to provide timely, practical advice and service. We handle relatively simple and straightforward matters with the same expertise we bring to specialized, highly technical and complex issues. One of our greatest strengths is our ability to quickly provide clients with the staff support and expertise their projects require. To guarantee our clients excellent legal advice - and the best value - we often work together in teams. According to the size and nature of the project, VanCott teams consist of optimum combinations of attorneys and support staff who can best accomplish the task within the required time frame and for the least cost.

Our firm handles legal matters in the following practice areas: Special Needs Trusts, Probate.

Practice Areas: Trusts and Estates; Estate Planning; Elder Law; Medicaid Planning; Long Term Care; Disabilities; Guardianship.

Our firm handles legal matters in the following practice areas: Elder Law, Medicaid Eligibility, Wills, Estate Tax Planning, Trusts, Guardianship, Probate, Trust Litigation, Will Contests, Business Law, Asset Protection, Corporate Law, Partnerships, Nonprofit and Charitable Organizations, Federal Taxation.

Adult and Minor Guardianship, Special Needs Planning, Estate Planning

Daniel O. Hands is founder and President of Daniel O. Hands, P.C., a law firm in Oak Brook, Illinois that concentrates its practice in the area of estate planning. The firm represents clients in the areas of Wills, Trusts, charitable gift planning, asset protection planning, business succession planning, Medicaid planning and planning for families with special needs children Daniel earned his undergraduate degree from Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Michigan, graduating with a Bachelor of Business Administration. He earned his Juris Doctorate degree from Valparaiso University School of Law, Valparaiso, Indiana. He has spoken to national conferences, continuing legal education classes and numerous public seminars on Estate Planning, Medicaid Planning and Asset Protection. Daniel has over 33 years of experience practicing law. He is a member of the Illinois Bar Association and the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys. He is a charter member and former member of the Board of Governors of the American Academy of Estate Planning Attorneys. Daniel lives in Clarendon Hills, Illinois has been happily married to Cherie for 30 years. They have two daughters, Christine and Melissa.

Dennis James Christensen is a solo practitioner with an office in the Charleston, South Carolina area. He is a graduate of Michigan State University and the Marquette University School of Law. Dennis concentrates his practice in the areas of elder law and estate planning. He is currently a member of the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys (NAELA) and is currently a member of its Board of Directors.

Voorhees LaMure LLP is committed to providing prompt, competent, and courteous service in these areas: Special Needs Trusts Medicaid Eligibility Planning business formation and planning estate planning fiduciary representation elder law

Board Certified in Estate Planning and Probate Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization, Dick limits his practice to helping families and small businesses deal with today's needs and plan for tomorrow's. Planning for special families is a gratifying part of this practice. It provides the special family with a clear path to follow to meet the financial and legal challenges that they and their special person must overcome to ensure that access to public benefits is preserved and the highest possible quality of life for their special person is secured. Guardianship, Medicaid planning, and special needs trusts are employed as appropriate.

EDWARD V. WILCENSKI, Esq., is a co-owner and co-manager of the law firm of Jones & Wilcenski PLLC. He practices in the areas of Special Needs Estate Planning, Trust & Estate Administration, and Elder Law and Long Term Care Planning. He holds the highest rating for both expertise and ethics awarded by Martindale-Hubbell, the independent rating service of the legal profession. He is a graduate of Albany Law School, and received his Bachelor of Science in economics, magna cum laude, from Siena College in Loudenville, New York.

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