It's unclear from your question whether the stroke has effected her mental acuity or just her physical abilities. In CT, the process for...

Elder Law: Even if he does evict her, can he force her to live in a nursing home or can she live where she wants?

I saw this on the local news, and the answer to your question more a practical matter than a legal one. If mom did not retain a life estate in the...

This is an impossible question to answer with any degree of certainty, because it depends on a number of factors, such as the location of the firm...

When a person creates a revocable trust, the property of the trust is considered to be owned by them for most legal purposes, until the trust...

Does a nursing home have to recognize a Durable Power of Attorney - Attorney-in-fact when making financially related decisions?

While the other comments are correct, it seems important to state, as a matter of context, that direct pay is fairly standard and not something you...

Validity of Relinquished DPOA in massachussettes

As a matter of law, in Massachusetts, a power of attorney can be revoked by the principal (wife) by oral declaration or destroying the document,...

Federal and state estate taxes

The question is a bit ambiguous (is the donor holding them in trust for the recipient, or the recipient holding them in trust form him/herself or...

My Mother is 97 years old - she has funds in stocks (which my brother in law has power of attorney over) also she has a CD in

Your sister's comment is not entirely accurate, but there is a larger issue preventing you from doing this. As a Trustee, you have a fiduciary...

Placing assets in trust

You should sit down with an estate planning attorney in your area with all of the existing documents, because there is some ambiguity in what you...

Why can the hospital refuse to provide me with detailed information regarding my bill?

You're entitled to an itemized bill, but so far as I know, hospitals generally don't track food for billing purposes; it's just reflected in the...