Our Sangamon County elder law attorneys offer experienced, affordable, and comprehensive senior planning. We will help you prepare your financial matters and probate proceedings to ensure you and your family's needs are met. We will give you peace of mind and ensure your estate planning is treated with the attention and care you and your family deserve.
Please contact our friendly
Sangamon County Elder Law & Medicaid Planning Attorneys
at our nearest location to schedule a free consultation:
See below for our other locations. If our office locations are not convenient for you, we are happy to speak with you by phone.
Kevin O'Flaherty oversees all legal matters and is actively involved in making sure every client's case, big or small, is handled with excellence and attention to detail. He is available to contact through phone and email and his rates are available upon request.
For low income individuals, Medicaid is a health insurance program that mot only covers the elderly, but children as well. For the elderly to be eligible for assisted living, nursing, or in-home care, thy must have limited assets and income. In this article, our Sangamon County senior planning attorneys explain the Medicaid eligibility and requirements and the Medicaid look-back period.
In this video, Sangamon County elder law attorney Kevin O'Flaherty discusses medicaid eligibility requirements and the look-back period in Sangamon County.
If a person becomes mentally incompetent through disease, injury or old age, their immediate family can't simply take over the management of their major life decisions or financial affairs. In this article, our Sangamon County elder law attorneys explain how Powers of Attorney can help avoid the costly and time consuming process of guardianship proceedings by directly stipulating who will handle the affairs in case of incapacity or disability.
In this video, Sangamon County elder law attorney Kevin O'Flaherty discusses how using healthcare POAs helps to avoid costly guardianship hearings.
In this article, our Sangamon County elder law attorneys discuss how trusts are uses in order to prevent Sangamon County probate proceedings.
Probate matters see the courts distributing assets of a deceased individuals' estate to heirs and creditors. Probate proceedings are a long and costly process and can be avoided by implementing a revocable living trust that transfers money and other estate assets to it during a lifetime. The revocable living trust is a legal entity that owns the assets and property during the creators lifetime and that creator has control of it during their lifetime as well as can stipulate what happens to those assets upon their death.
In this video, Sangamon County elder law attorney Kevin O'Flaherty discusses how using healthcare POAs helps to avoid costly guardianship hearings.
