Estate Planning

Most people with special needs, including those with very severe special needs, live in some type of community setting.  Here are some of the most popular housing options for adults with special needs.

Leaving a child with special needs out of your estate plan is almost always the wrong way to help the child.

It is very important for everyone, but especially for parents of children with special needs, to establish an organized system for conveying information about their special needs plan to the people who will be carrying it out.  The best way...

You can typically only choose one or two guardians for your child with special needs but this doesn't mean that you can't get other friends and family members involved with your child's care.  ...

Here are seven questions to ask before accepting appointment as a trustee of a special needs trust.

Out of all of the decisions that parents of children with special needs have to confront, the choice of a guardian stands out as one of the most difficult.  But parents don't have to dread this decision, especially if they...

Despite being the beneficiary of a multi-million dollar special needs trust, Mark Holman never saw a cent until a New York judge intervened. The case illustrates the difficulties those creating trusts face when choosing a trustee for a special needs...

Rep. Glenn Thompson (R-Pa.) introduced the Special Needs Trust Fairness Act of 2013, a bill that would allow people with disabilities to create first-party special needs trusts to hold their assets without interfering with their access to Supplemental Security Income...

In a recent New York case, an institutional trustee has been ordered to pay back a special needs trust almost $180,000 for its failure to make certain that the beneficiary qualified for available public benefits.