Understanding Medicaid Estate Recovery and Your Right to Relief Key Takeaways: An undue hardship waiver lets North Carolina’s DHHS forgive all or part of a Medicaid estate claim when repayment would be…
Understanding How TennCare Reaches a Family Home After Death Key Takeaways: A home held in validly created joint tenancy with right of survivorship in Tennessee is typically protected from TennCare estate recovery…
Understanding What Happens to Your Home and Savings After Medicaid Key Takeaways: SC Medicaid estate recovery currently reaches only the probate estate. Federal law requires states to recover certain long-term care costs…
Understanding Maryland’s Streamlined Probate Option Key Takeaways: Yes, an intestate estate in Baltimore can use modified administration if all heirs consent and the estate meets Maryland’s statutory requirements. This streamlined probate eliminates…
Understanding a Surviving Spouse’s Financial Cushion in North Carolina Key Takeaways: The North Carolina year’s allowance provides a surviving spouse $60,000 from the deceased spouse’s estate for first-year support, offering Charlotte and…
Understanding How the VA Reviews Asset Transfers Before Approving a Pension Key Takeaways: The VA Aid and Attendance three-year look-back is a 36-month window before a pension application in which the VA…