Estate planning requires specialized planning when you have a child with special needs. Looking to the future as to how your child will be able to function in the world as they age is particularly tricky to assess. What is the child’s long-term prognosis and what type...
3 Things to Consider When Your Special Needs Child Turns 18
By Dara M. Hensel, Estate Planning Paralegal Having a special needs child has many challenges. One of the toughest challenges faced by many parents is knowing how to best care for their special needs child as they reach adulthood. There are many areas that need...
There’s No Limit on Assets Going into a Special Needs Trust
There’s no limit on the amount of cash or assets that may be put into a trust for a child with “special needs”, but setting up and administering a special needs trust (SNT) is no simple matter due to state and federal laws, which dictate a host of rules about: how...
When Different Fields of Law Overlap: Support for a Special Needs Child
“There is a great deal of overlap between estate planning and family law,” as California attorney Christina McPherson points out. Last week we discussed just one example of the way different fields of law overlap, talking about the fact that grandparents planning to...
