What Ames Law Might Do
- Preservation or transfer of assets seeking to avoid spousal impoverishment when a spouse enters a nursing home
- Medicaid qualifications, application submissions & planning strategies
- Medicare claims and appeals
- Social Security benefits including disability claims and appeals
- Disability planning, including use of durable powers of attorney, living trusts and living wills
- VA compensation claims & pension benefits, including Aid & Attendance allowances
- Help with financial management and health care decisions; arranging for other means of delegating management and decision-making to another in case of incompetence or incapacity
- Administration and management of trusts and estates
- Long term care placements in nursing homes and assisted living
- Nursing home issues with patient’s rights and nursing home quality
- Minimize or develop strategies dealing with elder abuse and financial exploitation
Estate Planning & Administrative Law
Ames Law provides information and legal advice for preparing one’s properties and finances, so your assets transfer in the most efficient manner to one’s heirs.
This includes tax planning to avoid such things as estate taxes, state inheritance taxes, capital gain taxes & gift tax implications on properties or investments.
We will help a person and their family with the following services:
- Give tax advice pertaining to estate issues
- Perform probate services
- Draw up wills and trusts
- Design powers of attorney and related consent documents
- Design special needs trusts or partnership programs to save estate or gift taxes
- Design charitable gifting programs
- Design strategies to transfer business ownership with the occurrence of one’s death or disability
- Design programs to pay for estate taxes