Elder law; selected statutes and regulations, 2007 ed.
9781422411643 Elder law; selected statutes and regulations, 2007 ed. Frolik, Lawrence A. and Alison McChrystal Barnes. LexisNexis 2007 566 pages $30.00 Paperback KF390 Frolik (law, U. of Pittsburgh) and Barnes (law,...

WealthCounsel(R) Announces Results of 2008 Industry Survey to Attorneys Attending Estate Planning Conference in Orlando.
ORLANDO, Fla., Jan. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Orlando World Center Marriott -- WealthCounsel, LLC announced today from the exhibit hall at the 43rd Annual Heckerling Institute on Estate Planning the results of its second annual nationwide survey of estate planning attorneys. The company initiated the survey in 2007 for the...

Impending regs affect planning for clients facing long-term care: the state is on track to issue new regulations that will make it harder for clients who are headed for nursing-home care to hang on to assets. Elder law and estate-planning practitioners need to be prepared with new strategies for the new rules.
Attorneys whose practices encompass estate planning and elder law should be watching for the issuance of new regulations from the Illinois Department of healthcare and Family Services in the early part of 2007. The regulations will implement provisions of the Deficit reduction Act of 2005 (DRA 2005), PL 109-171,...

Elder law in a nutshell, 4th ed.
9780314167774 Elder law in a nutshell, 4th ed. Frolik, Lawrence A. and Richard L. Kaplan. Thomson West 2006 437 pages $28.00 Paperback West nutshell series KF390 Written by two...

Debt Settlement Company Lands Toughest License in Industry: Greenspoon Marder Instrumental in Gaining State Approval.
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., Dec. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Greenspoon Marder, P.A. is the first law firm in the country to secure licensing for a debt settlement company, in the toughest state in the country. This month, the Office of the Attorney General of Colorado registered Century Negotiations, Inc. to operate...

Bernard A. Krooks Elected President of Special Needs Alliance.
TUCSON, Ariz., Oct. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- New York attorney Bernard A. Krooks has been elected president of the Special Needs Alliance (SNA), the organization announced during its fall meeting at St. Pete Beach, Florida. He succeeds President Andrew Hook, the Virginia attorney who served in the position since October...

The perilous world of POA agents: they're responsible for tedious recordkeeping and, in some cases, prodigious uncompensated labor. They risk getting caught in family crossfire, even being sued. Who would want this thankless job? And can you make a well-meaning agent's work easier?
As this issue of the IBJ went to press, the media reported that a New York physician who had been indicted for allegedly converting nearly $1 million of his 92-year-old retired and ailing mother's savings using a power of attorney had accepted a plea bargain that would keep him...

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Byline: The Register-Guard Jewish Genealogical Society to host speaker Leah Maggie Garfield will be the speaker at the Aug. 13 meeting of the Jewish Genealogical Society Willamette Valley Oregon. The meeting will be held at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Quail Run Clubhouse, 435 Covey...

The Sandwich Generation: Caring For Both Your Parents And Children.
Originally published in New York Journal, VOL. CXCIIi- NO.2 - INDEX 89 Being prepared is always the best practice By now, we have all heard the catchy phrase -- Sandwich Generation -- a moniker coined in the 1990s to describe individuals sandwiched between caring for and supporting...