• Protecting Your House After You Move Into a Nursing Home

• • Aging In Place
  • Asset Preservation
  • Care Planning
  • Caregivers
  • Clay County
  • Duval County
  • Elder Law
  • Estate Planning
  • Florida
  • Florida First Coast
  • Green Cove Springs
  • Jacksonville
  • Life Care Planning
  • Medicaid
  • Medicaid Asset Transfer Rules
  • Medicaid Eligiblity
  • Medicaid Estate Recovery
  • North Florida
  • Orange Park
  • Save Family Homes
  • Seniors
  • St. Augustine
  • St. Johns County
  • Transfers
• 6 years ago
• While you generally do not have to sell your home in order to qualify for Medicaid coverage of nursing home care, it is possible the state can file a claim against your house after you die, so you may want to take steps to protect your house. If you get help from Medicaid to pay for the nursi... [read more]

• Proving That a Transfer Was Not Made in Order to Qualify for Medicaid

• • Care Planning
  • Clay County
  • Duval County
  • Elder Law
  • Elderly
  • Estate Planning
  • Gifting
  • Green Cove Springs
  • Jacksonville
  • Medicaid
  • Medicaid Application
  • Medicaid Eligiblity
  • Medicaid Planning
  • North Florida
  • Orange Park
  • St. Augustine
  • St. Johns County
  • Transfers
• 7 years ago
• Medicaid law imposes a penalty period if you transferred assets within five years of applying, but what if the transfers had nothing to do with Medicaid? It is difficult to do, but if you can prove you made the transfers for a purpose other than to qualify for Medicaid, you can avoid a penalty. ... [read more]