Senior Resources

• Review Estate Plan in View of New State Regulations
• Better With Age: Response to new Medicaid recovery law eye-opening
• Better With Age: Change in Medicaid Recovery Rules Highly Troublesome
• Theft & Medicaid
• Is My Home Safe For My Family?
• Where Do I Go For Medicaid?
• Where Did I Leave My Will?
• Why Does the Bank Want To See My Living Trust?
• When Do I Need To Start Planning?
• Elder Abuse And What To Do About It
• No Common Law Marriage
• Baby Boomers: The problem Or The Solution?
• Medicaid Provisions Still In Limbo
• Who Makes Your Health Care Decisions?
• Who Has No Clout?
• Budget Slashes For Seniors
• Saving Your Own Home From Nursing Home Costs
• Who Inherits My Business?
• What's In It For Us?
• Health Care Proxies and the Paramedics
• Aging in Place Here in the Hudson Valley
• Are You The Responsible Party?
• Town of Montgomery Seniors Independence Project
• Your Assets: Here Today, Gone Tomorrow?
• Will A Divorce Protect Assets?
• Why Use an Elder-Law Attorney?
• The Discharge or Transfer Of A Resident From A Nursing Home
• Telemarketing Fraud, Savvy Swindlers
• Spend-Down for Medicaid?
• Speak your mind - even if your voice shakes!
• Settling An Estate
• Seeking your own justice - here at home
• Reverse Mortgage Loans
• Protection for victims of physical abuse
• Probate after your Spouse Dies?
• New Pension Reforms Impact Lump-Sum Payouts
• New Bills May Help A Few Seniors
• Long-Term Care Insurance
• Living Wills vs. Health Care Proxies
• Legal Assistance Through The Office for the Aging
• Joint Accounts and Medicaid?
• Is your sister stealing from your Mother?
• Internet Pharmacies and Prescription Drug Importation II
• Internet Pharmacies and Prescription Drug Importation I
• How to make gifts that will not make you ineligible for health care
• How To Get What You Want
• How to avoid a Will contest
• Gifts to Grandchildren: Concerns & Ideas
• Financial Exploitation and Physical Abuse
• FAQs Concerning Government Benefits
• Estate Tax Scheduled for Repeal - But Will it Happen?
• Estate Planning with an Irrevocable Life Insurance Trust
• Deferred Annuities As A Planning Tool
• Check the Credentials of Senior Advocates
• Caring for your disabled adult child
• Can You Cancel the NY Durable Power of Attorney?
• Can assets be transferred by a Spouse after Medicaid Qualification?
• Aging in Place - Helping Seniors Stay at Home

Use these links for more legal information:

• American Bar Association
• State Bar Association
• Library of Congress Legislation
• Legal Services of the Hudson Valley
• AARP

Jacobowitz & Gubits, LLP, has offices in Orange and Sullivan County, New York, and serves clients throughout the Hudson Valley including the communities of Newburgh, Middletown, Monticello, Kingston, Beacon, Poughkeepsie, Hudson, Port Jervis, Cornwall, Hyde Park, Patterson, Warwick, Goshen, Wallkill, Fishkill, Nyack, New City, Clarkstown, Monroe, White Plains and Yonkers, as well as Orange County, Sullivan County, Dutchess County, Ulster County, Putnam County. 

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