Legal problems affecting the elderly grow in complexity and in number every year.  Actions taken by older people with regard to a single matter may have unintended legal effects. At Lord Lord & Layne our attorneys deal with the elderly and have a broad understanding of the laws that may have an impact on a given situation, to avoid future problems. This job is not made easy by the fact that Elder Law encompasses many different fields of law.

Some of these include:

• Preservation/transfer of assets seeking to avoid spousal impoverishment when a spouse enters a nursing home
  
  
• Medicaid
  
  
• Medicare claims and appeals
  
  
• Social security and disability claims and appeals
  
  
• Supplemental and long term health insurance issues.
  
  
• Disability planning, including use of durable powers of attorney, living trusts, "living wills," for financial management and health care decisions, and other means of delegating management and decision-making to another in case of incompetency or incapacity.
  
  
• Conservatorships and guardianships
  
  
• Estate planning, including planning for the management of one's estate during life and its disposition on death through the use of trusts, wills and other planning documents
  
  
• Probate
  
  
• Administration and management of trusts and estates
  
  
• Long-term care placements in nursing home and life care communities
  
  
• Nursing home issues including questions of patients' rights and nursing home quality
  
  
• Elder abuse and fraud recovery cases
  
  
• Housing issues, including discrimination and home equity conversions
  
  
• Age discrimination in employment

The attorneys at Lord Lord & Layne are Elder Law Attorneys who work for you in every one of these areas. If you are seeking an elder law attorney make sure that attorney regularly handles matters in the area of concern in your particular case and who will know enough about the other fields to question whether the action being taken might be affected by laws in any of the other areas of law on the list. For example, if you are going to rewrite your will and your spouse is ill, the estate planner needs to know enough about Medicaid to know whether it is an issue with regard to your spouse's inheritance.

Our attorneys who primarily work with the elderly bring more to their practice than an expertise in the appropriate area of law. They bring to their practice a knowledge of the elderly that allows them and their staff to ignore the myths relating to aging and the competence of the elderly. At the same time, they will take into account and empathize with some of the true physical and mental difficulties that often accompany the aging process. Their understanding of the afflictions of the aged allows them to determine more easily the difference between the physical versus the mental disability of a client. They are more aware of real life problems, health and otherwise, that tend to crop up as persons age. They are tied into a formal or informal system of social workers, psychologists and other elder care professionals who may be of assistance to you. All of these things will hopefully make you more comfortable when dealing with them and ease your way as you try to resolve your legal problem.

If you are in need on an Elder Law Attorney please contact us for a no cost consultation. That's right, our initial free consultation is yours for the asking. Just click on the Contact Us below and fill out our contact form, or call us toll free at 1-877-wvlawinfo and ask our staff to set up an appointment for you.

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