Category: Special Needs

Helping Your Child with Special Needs Enter Adulthood

You need to take practical and legal steps to plan for your child’s transition to adulthood as they turn eighteen. Begin well before their birthday to ease the transition and ensure they continue receiving their government benefits as an adult. If they require life planning and decision-making oversight, parents need

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The Importance of Estate Planning for Those With Special Needs

A third-party special needs trust, also known as a supplemental needs trust, is an estate planning tool for parents of kids with mental/physical disabilities and the elderly. This type of trust will receive assets from you or another benefactor expressly for that person with a disability.   Goals include: leaving

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