Vanarell & Li, LLC, Westfield, NJ Elder Law Attorneys

May

Government Long-Term Care Benefits for New Jersey Residents (Video)

May 11, 2016

Government Long-Term Care Benefits for NJ Residents 908-232-7400 Vanarelli & Li, LLC provides comprehensive Government Long-Term...

May

Disability Planning for New Jersey Residents (Video)

May 8, 2016

Vanarelli & Li, LLC provides Special Needs Trusts and Disability Planning Attorney Services throughout...

May

Administrative Law Judge Reverses Reduction in Medicaid Personal Care Assistant Hours

May 2, 2016

I represented the 84-year old petitioner in P.R.-P. v. United Healthcare , a case in...

Apr

Court Vacates Injunction Against Law Firm’s Ad Critical of Nursing Home

April 27, 2016

McHugh Fuller, a law firm which focuses on nursing home abuse and neglect, ran a full-page...

Apr

Payments from an Annuity Purchased with a Spouse’s “Resource Allowance” are Income under Medicaid

April 26, 2016

A New Jersey appeals court ruled that payments to the spouse of a Medicaid recipient...

Apr

Court Affirms Termination of Personal Care Assistance Services Received by Disabled Person Since 2009

April 22, 2016

In this case, a New Jersey appeals court held that a disabled New Jersey resident...

Apr

Court Dismisses Legal Malpractice Suit For Failure To Assert Unjust Enrichment Claim In Earlier Undue Influence Case

April 11, 2016

Vicinio v. Carluccio, Leone, Dimon, Doyle & Sacks, LLC is a legal malpractice action stemming...

Apr

Alzheimer’s Association Issues 2016 Alzheimer’s Disease Facts and Figures Report

April 7, 2016

The Alzheimer’s Association has issued its 2016 Alzheimer’s Disease Facts and Figures report. The report is “a statistical...

Apr

Law Designed to Protect Seniors Does Not Impose a Duty on Banks to Report Elder Abuse to Authorities

April 4, 2016

Following bench trial, a trial judge ruled that a state law designed to protect seniors and...

Mar

Appellate Division Rules Counsel Fee Award is Discretionary, and May Be Reversed on Appeal “Only on the Rarest of Occasions”

March 30, 2016

In an appeal from a trial court’s decision to reduce the counsel fees sought by...

Mar

Assisted Living Residents Who Received Charitable “Fellowship Credits” Are Ineligible for Medicaid

March 28, 2016

A New Jersey appeals court held that a needs-based credit applied to the accounts of...

Mar

Court Orders Plaintiff to Pay All Fees in Withdrawn Contested Guardianship Case

March 21, 2016

A trial court ruled that the plaintiff, who brought but ultimately withdrew the complaint in...

Mar

To Be Legally Enforceable, An Alleged Gift Must Be Delivered To The Recipient

March 16, 2016

New Jersey appeals court ruled a surviving spouse failed to prove that her deceased spouse...

Mar

NJ Attorney Suspended for Arranging Improper Loan from Elderly Widow

March 14, 2016

In order to protect the public and and guard against elder abuse by lawyers, the...

Mar

Adult Child Uses Senior Divorce to Contest Estranged Parent’s Last Will and Testament

March 1, 2016

Plaintiff, Emmaline O’Hara, and defendant, John B. O’Hara, Jr., were married in 1955. They had...

Feb

Gifts that Strip the Donor of Virtually All His Assets, and Gifts to a Donee on Whom the Donor Depends Indicate Undue Influence

February 17, 2016

In this case, the New Jersey Supreme Court held that gifts giving rise to a...

Feb

Where to Find the Final Decisions issued by all New Jersey administrative agencies

February 15, 2016

Readers of this blog know that applicants for public benefits often appeal the decisions made...

Feb

The Top 10 National Elder Law Decisions of 2015

February 9, 2016

Below, in chronological order, is the annual roundup of the top 10 national elder law...

Feb

No Trust Reformation Absent Ambiguity in Language of the Trust

February 5, 2016

In this will contest involving the doctrine of probable intent, Hon. Robert P. Contillo, P.J.Ch....

Jan

Medicaid Denial Reversed; Agency Failed to Accommodate Disabled Applicant or Assist in Obtaining Information and Documents

January 25, 2016

After he was admitted to a nursing home in 2013, petitioner, R.P., accrued unpaid bills...

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