Iowa Estate Recovery can recover from the assets an applicant owns when they pass away. This would include an inherited IRA from your spouse...

Generally there is a 5 year look back period on asset transfers when trying to become eligible for Medicaid. One major exception to this transfer...

Iowa Estate Recovery should be notified about your mother's passing. Once notified, Iowa Estate Recovery will send out a worksheet identifying how...

Your sister is the person that needs to change her own estate plan. Any changes need to be her wishes and hers alone. I recommend she call an...

The executor physically has my inheritance check and will not give it to me. What can I do?

If you feel your interests as a beneficiary are not being met I would recommend hiring counsel. Generally there will be an opportunity to address...

As Erik pointed out, unless you have your niece or nephew listed as a joint owner, POD designee, TOD designee or beneficiary on something, nothing...

I am on Medicaid and social security disability. Can I keep the profit from selling my house and still keep these?

More than likely you will be bumped off the Medicaid program until you reinvest that money back into another exempt asset like a different house. ...

How long should it take for a will to be honored??

Has a probate estate been opened up? You as a beneficiary should be receiving probate paperwork. As Attorney Fisk mentioned, the probate process...

I was left my mom’s condo, my brother will not sign paper to transfer deed, he wants 3,000 given to him. He is the executor also

It would be my recommendation to hire counsel of your own so you are being represented in the probate estate.

Can a child with both financial and health POA because of father’s dementia go against his father’s spouse and move him away?

From your question, it appears the stepson is now the substitute financial and healthcare decision maker. If the mother is concerned about the...