How can wife access her joint estate?

This is one of those situations that need to be developed in depth before any meaningful, specific advice can be given. If a spouse needs access to...

How are joint checking accounts viewed by Medicaid?

Medicaid is not supposed to consider your money as your mom's. They're supposed to look to who put the money into the account and who took what...

Does a will superceed a trust

You've got 3 things going on here: a trust, a deed, a will. The deed with you controls first. Next would be the deed to the trust, since to be...

My mother has a fixed annuity paid to her monthly for the next 7 years, can that be put into a trust ?

She should be able to transfer the annuity, since an annuity is simply an insurance policy with some unique characteristics. However, it is not...

Can I get one, brother took my frail mother away from my home without my consent and went and cleaned out her bank account.

You did the right thing in reporting this to Adult Protective Services. There may be more steps to take, such as a Personal Protective Order...

How would one transfer a deed/title to a family member of an inherited property?

The problem here is that the niece is receiving state benefits and now that she's inherited property, that property needs to be disclosed to the...

Revocable trust parents wanted it to where one couldn't do anything without the other, how would that be worded

Sounds like your brother has embezzled trust resources and basically stolen the assets that should have gone to you. At this point, you need to...

Do i have to get a divorce from an ex girlfriend I filed taxes with 4 years ago.... I didn't know we would be concidered marrie.

How/WHY did you file "taxes with" your girlfriend? It sounds to me as if you filed the wrong tax return and now the IRS thinks you're married, even...

How can I be power of attorney for my older sister? Shes live on her own and she's epileptic.

This is a real problem, so yes, you could be agent under a power of attorney for Noreen, but that will not completely solve the problem. If...

Not converted, but you can do a new trust, and if the original trust was done properly, transfer the assets to the new revocable trust. I'm not...