Childhood Disability Benefit Fairness Act
The Special Needs Alliance has crafted a legislative solution to a significant problem facing disabled adult children.
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09, 2025
04
10, 2025
LOGAN PHILIPPS Spotlight
2025-04-10T10:39:48-04:00INTRODUCING Logan Philipps. I tell people I am a developmental disability estate planning attorney. And then I give them my elevator speech. “I help people with disabilities and their families plan for the future. Individuals with special needs can’t inherit in the same way that typical individuals can. If they receive [...]
03
18, 2025
Special Needs Planners: A Safe Beacon in the Storm
2025-03-18T16:32:41-04:00This issue of The Voice® was written by SNA member Victoria Sulerzyski of Bowie & Jenson, LLC in Towson, Maryland. Her firm serves all of Maryland and focuses on special needs planning, elder law, guardianship, and estate planning and administration. Special needs planners provide expert legal planning and advocacy to and on behalf of families [...]
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10, 2025
Understanding Medicaid Work Requirements: What Families Need to Know
The landscape of Medicaid coverage is shifting. Understand how potential Medicaid work requirements could affect healthcare access for people with disabilities.
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27, 2025
Care Managers and How They Support Individuals with Disabilities
This issue of The Voice® was written by SNA member Kristen M. Lewis of Harrison, LLP in Atlanta, Georgia. Her firm focuses on special needs, estate and trust administration, guardianship and conservatorship, and estate planning. A professional care manager may be the most valuable – yet least recognized – member of a family’s team of [...]
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17, 2024
Special Needs Planning: Ensuring a Smooth Transition
Planning for the future can feel daunting, but it doesn’t have to be. By taking the time carefully to plan now, you can ensure a smooth transition later.
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17, 2024
When A Self-Settled Special Needs Trust May Not Be the Best Option: Thinking Outside of the Box
This issue of The Voice® is written by SNA member Thomas Begley, CELA of Begley Law Group in Moorestown, New Jersey. His firm specializes in special needs planning, special needs trusts, guardianship, and estate planning. When a personal injury settlement is received, the first reaction for many people is, “Let’s use the money to fund [...]
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18, 2024
Preparing for Tomorrow: What Parents of Adult Children with Special Needs Need to Know
For parents of children with special needs, growing older doesn’t just mean preparing for your retirement and worrying about creaky joints. Ensuring your adult child's future health, happiness, and financial well-being requires preparation, too.
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16, 2024
Sexual Expression, Health, and Relationships of Persons with Disabilities
This issue of The Voice® was written by SNA member Kristen M. Lewis and her colleague Emma H. Barry, both of Harrison, LLP in Atlanta, Georgia. Their firm focuses on special needs, estate and trust administration, guardianship and conservatorship and estate planning. People with disabilities were created as sexual beings, just like people without disabilities. [...]
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15, 2024
What’s So Great About Supplement Security Income & Medicare for Adults with Special Needs
This article is provided by SNA member Elizabeth Gray, CELA or McCandlish & Lillard in Fairfax, VA. Elizabeth focuses her practice on elder law and special needs law; trust, estate and guardianship disputes; and, wills, trusts and estates. This is an overview of the fundamentals of public benefits law, particularly focusing on Social Security’s need-based [...]