Son takes financial advantage of father and loses inheritance
(Law Firm Marketing " Management Systems)... home telling them the elderly man's money was gone and they should sign him up for government assistance if they wanted to be paid. Illinois State Police financial crimes investigator Al Lindsey said after he was contacted and his office began investigating, they found 32 accounts in eight separate banks ... a Family Wealth Lawyer in Los Angeles, California. Ms. Sirkin is a Board Certified Specialist in Estate Planning, Probate and Trust Law. MSirkin@SirkinLaw.com. http://www.SirkinLaw.com. ...
May 2, 2008 07:23 pm
Illinois Bar Journal cover story on problem-solving courts
(Changing the Court)... County Circuit Judge Patrick T. Murphy proposes extending the concept of specialty courts to elder law. In an op/ed in the September 2007 issue of the CBA Record, Murphy noted ... notes: persons in the early stages of dementia may forget to pay their real estate taxes or mortgages on time and end up in foreclosure or in tax deed proceedings ... partisans recognize that therapeutic courts aren't the answer for all offenders. Illinois's and the nation's move toward expanding them, though, could provide ...
April 9, 2008 03:29 am
Illinois Bankruptcy Firm – LakeLaw
(SpeakOut at PaperStreet Web Design)LakeLaw, an Illinois personal and business bankruptcy law firm, has just launched a new web site. LakeLaw, or the Law Offices of David P. Leibowitz LLC as ... bankruptcy. They also excel in wills, trusts, probate, estate planning and asset protection, elder law and real estate. Further, they pursue commercial collections. ... expertise required to help clients deal with mortgage foreclosure and predatory creditors. They represent trustees and accept receiverships. Both their principals serve as Chapter ...
March 21, 2008 09:35 am
High Demand and Rapid Growth Areas in Law
(Law is Cool)... anything involving Elder Law is guaranteed to expand. Estate Planning, Elder Abuse, Social Security & Medicaid, Disability, etc. The amount of changes and legal areas ... see here have a vested interest. I can see the responses based on demographic and global trends have some merit, but I am not sure that I see ... Kent Heller of Heller, Holmes & Assoc, PC in Illinois, resolved this seemingly conflicting advise, It depends on where you are and what you are doing. Here, in a small community we ...
March 12, 2008 03:01 am
Kaplan, Whitton publish in Heckerling volume
(Elder Law Prof Blog)Lexis Nexis has just published papers from the 41st Annual Heckerling Institute on Estate Planning, see http://bookstore.lexis.com/bookstore/product/10141t.html. Elder law profs Richard Kaplan (Illinois) and Linda Whitton (Valparaiso) contributed, respectively, chapters 17, on long term care costs, and chapter 9, on...
August 2, 2007 01:20 pm
A Shout Out to Fellow Attorney Bloggers
(You and Yours Blawg)... oriented blogs into one, very accessible, hierarchy. Death & Taxes - The Blog (Illinois) - Commentary on estate planning, estate administration, and real estate issues from Chicago-area attorney Joel A. Schoenmeyer (who also very kindly pointed ... California by Michelle Renee Drake and Jennifer Nicole Sawday. Massachusetts Estate Planning and Elder Law - A discussion of estate planning, elder law and health insurance matters in Massachusetts by Leanna Hamill. California Estate and Business Law ...
June 7, 2006 06:16 am