Schlossberg & Associates, P.C. Practice Areas

Elderlaw and Medicaid Planning

Our firm provides elder law services. We are dedicated to providing quality legal services to the elderly and their families. The issues facing the elderly are serious and require special legal expertise that many other lawyers cannot provide.

We help you:

1. Plan for Medicaid eligibility
2. Interpret Medicaid rules and regulations
3. Create an irrevocable trust
4. Establish guardianships / conservatorships
5. Create durable power of attorney documents and estate planning petitions
6. Coordinate elder law services
7. Protect and preserve income and assets
8. Initiate estate planning options and strategies
9. Create health care proxies
10. Develop probate estate planning petitions

Medicaid is probably the single most important and complex federal aid program for the elderly. Our firm provides professional consultation to help you understand the criteria for, and planning to achieve, eligibility for Medicaid, as the alternative to probate pay long-term care for nursing homes. We offer planning to maintain assets for family use, including residences, while establishing Medicaid-eligibility. We provide estate-planning process. If a client is incompetent not only will we assist in the guardianship / conservatorship, but also in petitioning the Court to establish an estate plan for the client that is sensitive to Medicaid and taxes.

Our attorneys are involved in substantive elder law issues and the development of workshops, seminars and educational materials. Our firm has received recognition for our Elder Law expertise both statewide and nationally.

We focus on recent and anticipated developments in applicable law and regulations, and on specific techniques for protecting you, your spouse and your family. Our firm appreciates the array of issues you face. Our professionals are sensitive to your needs and we have a true concern for your well being and that of your family.