Blog – Page 73 – Vanarell & Li, LLC, Westfield, NJ Elder Law Attorneys

Apr

Elder Mediation Center founders selected to speak at the ABA's Section of Dispute Resolution 11th Annual Spring Conference

Founders of the Elder Mediation Center of New Jersey (EMCNJ) will present a program entitled...

Apr

Seminar Given By Founders Of The Elder Mediation Center Of New Jersey

The Elder Mediation Center of New Jersey invites you to explore the practice of Elder...

Apr

Results Of New Study: Parents Have No Long-Term Care Plan For Special Needs Kids

It is well known that the vast majority of America’s 2.6 million children with special...

Apr

Blogging Lawyers: Redux

I achieved a milestone a few posts ago. On April 1, 2009, I wrote my...

Apr

Tidal Wave Of Autistic Children Entering Adulthood Threatens To Swamp Social Service Networks

Linda H. Davis wrote an April 4th column in the Washington Post that a tidal...

Apr

Last Week Senate Voted to Exempt Estates Of Up To $10 Million From Any Estate Taxes

President Bush’s tax cut law passed in 2001, called the Economic Growth and Tax Relief...

Apr

Director of Medicaid Affirms ALJ's Decision Awarding Medicaid to Beneficiary of Trust Reformed by the Court to Comply with Special Needs Trust Rules

On February 14, 2009, I blogged about the decision of the administrative law judge in...

Apr

Estate Planning For Same Sex Couples

In the 2006 Lewis v. Harris decision, the New Jersey Supreme Court held that, although...

Apr

Congress Proposes Tax-Deferred Savings Accounts, called "ABLE" accounts, for People with Special Needs

A bill that would create tax-deferred savings accounts for people with special needs has been...

Apr

Intentionally Omitting Children From Your Will

If a client chooses not to leave his estate equally to his heirs, or even...

Mar

More Companies Eliminate 401(k) Matches

The battle for a secure retirement is about to get even tougher. Several new surveys...

Mar

Overview of the VA Compensation Claims Process

Under the veterans’ compensation benefits system, a veteran, a veteran’s dependents or a veteran’s survivors...

Mar

Social Security's New Rulings Clarify How The Agency Determines Childhood Disability Under the "Functional Equivalence" Rule

On February 17 and 18, 2009, the Social Security Administration (SSA) issued a series of...

Mar

Stimulus Payment for Social Security Recipients to Arrive in May's Mail

On February 17, 2009, President Obama signed into law the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act...

Mar

Westfield Lawyer Donald D. Vanarelli Selected As A New Jersey Super Lawyer for Third Consecutive Year

Highly regarded Certified Elder Law Attorney among just five percent of lawyers in state to...

Mar

Frail Elderly Nursing Home Residents Have Become Victims Of Younger, Stronger and Dangerous Mentally Ill

Over the past several years, nursing homes have become dumping grounds for young and middle-age...

Mar

Shrinking Staff Levels, A Dramatically Increasing Workload And More Complicated Disabling Impairments Lead To An Exploding Backlog Of SSA Claims

According to a recent report by the Government Accountability Office, shrinking staff levels, a dramatically...

Mar

NJ Senate Approves Palimony in Writing Legislation

Earlier this month, the state Senate approved, by a vote of 21-14, bipartisan-sponsored legislation that...

Mar

Pew Research Center Issues Its Bleakest-Ever Report On The State Of The News Media in the United States

The Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism, a nonpolitical, nonpartisan research institute, recently...

Mar

Deirdre Wheatley-Liss, Local Attorney, Named to New Jersey’s Best 50 Women in Business

Congratulations to my colleague, Deirdre Wheatley-Liss, on being chosen as one of New Jersey’s 50...

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