If you are your mother’s caregiver, it is natural for you to have concerns about nursing home abuse or neglect. Both of these are huge problems in caregiving facilities across the United States. However, it is also possible that if your mother is complaining about the...
An estate plan gives you a place to articulate your end-of-life wishes and describe what you would like your loved ones to do with your assets. Maintaining your plan is a continual process. Throughout your life, you may experience significant changes that may impact...
Having Medicare and Medicaid can be an ideal way to ensure you have maximum insurance coverage. However, Medicaid is an income-based service. You must qualify by coming in under income thresholds. When figuring your eligibility, the state will consider your assets...
An advance medical directive is a planning tool for future medical complications. The directive is a legal document that explains how you want others to handle your medical decisions when you cannot make those decisions yourself. Advance directives are not just for...
Lately, you do more and more to help take care of your retired parents. Is it time to consider seeking guardianship for your aging mother and father? Forbes breaks down scenarios in which adult children may want to look into guardianship. Learn when to step in without...
As your parents and grandparents age, you might begin to feel worried about them getting behind the wheel. What if they cause an accident or fail to avoid one caused by someone else? After all, older people have slower reflexes, take more medications and begin to lose...
No parent wants to think that they raised a bad kid. A teenager who faces criminal charges is not necessarily a bad kid either. Teenagers get into trouble sometimes, but it is not always the parents’ fault or because the teenager is prone to criminal activity. Some...
As a parent, you do your best to protect your children. As children grow into teenagers, it can become more difficult to protect them from the world. Unfortunately, accidents are common among teenagers, particularly accidents that involve alcohol. Fortunately, Drive...
We want to ensure our loved ones are respectfully and adequately looked after when we entrust their care to a caregiver or someone else in a trusted position. Unfortunately, elder abuse exists and our vulnerable family members might experience violation that results...
If you and your spouse determine that continuing your Virginia marriage is not what either of you wants, you may decide to officially separate, even if you live under the same roof. In an amicable split, you may consider keeping the arrangement casual and abide by a...
