The Importance of Estate Planning
Lori I. Wolf Steven D. Lepzig Consellors at Law – Cole, Schotz, Meisel, Forman & Leonard PA. Estate planning is an important aspect of a family plan for any parent [...
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Start thinking about your financial future and how you can support your whole family, including an individual with Down syndrome. Below you will find links to some well-written articles to help you start down this path.
Estate Planning Getting Started
Estate planning always involves difficult decisions. The process is even more complicated for those families who must be concerned with the care, comfort and well-being of a c...
Continue ReadingChoosing the Ideal Trustee of Your Child’s Special Needs Trust
By Stephen W. Dale I am a former psychiatric nurse of seventeen years who later became an attorney with the objective of fighting against abuse and neglect in large institutio...
Continue ReadingThe Letter of Intent
(originally published in the News Digest) by Richard W. Fee What is the Letter of Intent? Simply put, the Letter of Intent is a document written by you (the parents […]...
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Once you’ve written the Letter of Intent about your son or daughter, the first, most important thing to do is to let people know that there is a Letter of […]...
Continue ReadingABCs of SSI
Part 1 of a continuing series By Neal A. Winston The SSI program can be very difficult to understand for parents of children with disabilities. Last month’s Special Needs Al...
Continue ReadingFinding More Funding for Your Child’s Special Needs Trust
By Renée Colwill Lovelace, mba, jd, cela A special needs trust (SNT) is a wonderful gift to a child with special needs, however, there is much more that parents and […...
Continue ReadingTax Basics for Families with Special Needs
By Richard A. Courtney, CELA Families of children and adults with disabilities often require a variety of services in order to fully meet the needs of the person with disabili...
Continue ReadingTrusts for Children with Disabilities
by Frank L. Brunetti Some parents of children with disabilities can be hopeful that their children will grow up to befinancially independent and eligible for adequate and affo...
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