Elder Law
Senior citizens and their adult children face a complex set of legal issues ranging from protecting savings from Medicaid costs to petitioning a court to have a guardian appointed over an elderly and incapacitated adult. The Proden & O’Brien Law Firm provides a full spectrum of services for the elderly, for disabled adults, and for families. Our firm understands that families have unique concerns and require personalized solutions.
Crises can devastate an elderly person's assets and estate. Solving the problems as they arise is essential to preserving the estate. Planning to try to prevent problems and avert crises is a safer route to preserving assets than fighting fires as they come.
The firm's attorneys can help clients with a wide range of elder law issues
- Allocating property
- Applying for Social Security and disability programs
- Coordinating asset distribution
- Applying for benefits
- Drafting Durable Powers of Attorney and healthcare proxies
- Allocating property
- Applying for Social Security and disability programs
- Coordinating asset distribution
- Applying for benefits
- Drafting Durable Powers of Attorney and healthcare proxies
- Drafting wills, trusts, and living trusts
- Guardianships for the elderly and persons with disabilities
- Minimizing inheritance taxes
- Planning for and solving nursing home and long-term care issues
- Planning for divestment and spending down assets
- Planning for Medicare and Medicaid
- Protecting or preserving assets
Even more important than asset protection is prevention of elder abuse. Whatever the source of abuse—a family member or the staff of a care facility—the attorneys at the Proden & O’Brien Law Firm fight to protect the rights and physical and mental wellbeing of some of the most vulnerable members of society.
