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AKA: The Law Office Of Josh Ard
Other Link: http://ardlaw.com
Categories: Attorneys, Bankruptcy Law Attorneys, Criminal Law Attorneys, Employment Discrimination Attorneys, Estate Planning, Probate, & Living Trusts, Family Law Attorneys, General Practice Attorneys, Tax Attorneys, Trust Companies, Wills, Trusts & Estate Planning Attorneys

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Phone: (517) 655-9782

Address: 1340 Trotters Ln, Williamston, MI 48895

Website: http://ardlaw.com

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Employment Discrimination
This is a rather confusing point. There are very few laws that apply only to older adults. Even age discrimination laws apply to people forty and older, and forty certainly isn’t elderly. Many benefits that seem to be age related, such as Medicare, are actually available for persons with disabilities at any age.

Trusts and Estates

Estate Planning
I would like to welcome you to my website. I hope it provides helpful information to you and I will be glad to provide legal services to you. I realize that people generally contact attorneys when there are problems, not in happy times. It does make sense, however, to plan and try to prevent problems before they occur. That is much better than trying to solve them after the situation has gotten bad. I offer services primarily in the elder law, probate, life planning, estate planning, and consumer areas. If you would like to learn more about me and these services, I encourage you to click on relevant areas and learn more.
Wills
Do you need to have someone officially in charge to set rules? You have that with wills and trusts but not with beneficiary plans. With beneficiary plans the property is transferred automatically to beneficiaries.
Trusts
This can easily happen. There are many seminars where smooth-talking salesmen convince many people to purchase very poor-quality legal plans. Of course, they don’t say how poor their plans are. They talk instead about how they have some sort of “secret” plan that attorneys don’t want you to know about. Sometimes, they talk of things as new that are really very old. One sting recording showed a salesman saying that President Reagan first allowed persons to have living trusts, while trusts were actually in use before the time of Henry VIII almost 500 years ago. There are also seminars that offer “free” legal plans if you purchase one of their investments. As the old saying goes, you get what you pay for. Generally, these packages give you no real options. Instead, you have to accept some cookie-cutter plan with your family’s names added in. You wouldn’t purchase an entire clothing wardrobe designed for the “average-sized” American as some of the measurements are likely to be off for you. Likewise, you cannot assume that an “average” plan is what makes the most sense for you and your family. Also, from my personal experience, the quality of these plans is not very good. They typically charge more than high-quality attorneys and provide poor quality.
Power of Attorney
Where understanding is more important is for planning documents, such as wills, trusts, powers of attorney, and advance medical documents (to allow someone to speak to the doctors in case you cannot). Although theoretically these could be interpreted by a judge, that happens very rarely. Generally, it will be you, your chosen agents, and any third parties they show the documents to that will have to understand and apply them. In general, a good rule of thumb is that if you cannot understand them, then other people won’t understand them either. If they aren’t understood, they probably won’t be used correctly, which could cause great problems for you.
Probate
If you do decide to see if you have any remedies, I can offer a breadth of experience. Having taught and lectured in these areas for over 10 years, I am very familiar with probate law, consumer law, the criminal laws dealing with financial exploitation and scams, and administrative laws involving licensed professionals. I have given presentations on these topics to many different groups. I cannot predict results, but a comprehensive approach is much more likely to be successful.

Foreclosure
Tax Law
The world does not come in neatly separated compartments. If you are interested in planning your estate, you need to consider tax matters. Unless you are absolutely certain that you will never need to ask for governmental assistance in paying for nursing home care (already over $100,000 per year in some nursing homes), you need to take Medicaid rules into effect, also. Not every estate planner knows that a home owned directly by the owner is not counted by Medicaid, but a home in a revocable trust is counted. Creditor issues can be a concern also. Depending on how you leave property for your beneficiaries, your creditors may be able to claim a significant portion to pay for debts you owed them while you are alive. If you help out someone else as a trustee or agent under a power of attorney, you need to be aware of new criminal laws passed to address financial exploitation. These laws are very broad may trap people who had no idea that they were doing anything wrong.
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