Covering the long-term care costs for seniors, which include Medicaid coverage, will always be complicated to do in Pennsylvania. It's very difficult for people to plan their estates on their own without professional legal assistance. Understand the basics of...
Estate Administration
Creating an estate plan for a blended family
If you live in Pennsylvania and you are a parent in a blended family, your estate planning may have an extra layer of complexity. It is important to ensure that you make plans that will take care of any of your own children from a previous relationship as well as your...
How self-proving wills help your family
The probate process in Pennsylvania is difficult enough without adding additional uncertainty to the process. One way to make things easier is to have a self-proving will. This is not as hard as you think, and it only entails a couple of extra steps. The benefits are...
Caring for special needs children after they become adults
As any parent of a special needs child knows, caring for their child is one of the more difficult and rewarding tasks they will ever face. That being said, this issue becomes even more complicated once that child turns 18 and becomes an adult. Sadly, in many cases,...
What do I need to do in Pennsylvania if a beneficiary is missing or can’t be located?
The executor of an estate has many responsibilities to fulfill when the testator dies. One of those obligations is filing the will with the probate court. Another is contacting beneficiaries to notify them of the testator's passing. There's often a significant amount...
Estate Planning vs. Estate Administration
What is the difference? Well, Estate Planning is done during your life in preparing for incapacity or death and to make sure that your wishes are carried out. Estate Administration is done after your pass away to make sure that the planning you did prior to death is...
What Do I Do When My Parents Die?
After several months of watching my Dad suffer…his suffering is over. He passed peacefully in his sleep. Now what? Just as soon as the death happens, you can almost immediately expect someone to ask the question of “are you opening an estate?” If you are unaware,...
The risks you incur by serving as estate executor
Serving as executor of an estate means dealing with a lot of stress and possibly winding up in a disagreement with your loved ones, all for very little compensation. In some cases, executors can also find themselves facing financial and legal consequences for the...