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03 01, 2026

HOTMA and Section 8: What Attorneys and Trustees Need to Know

2026-07-30T22:14:28-04:00Tags: , |

Have You Heard About HOTMA? Eligibility Rules Are Changing for Subsidized Housing This issue of the Voice was written by SNA member Emily Starr, CELA, of Starr Traiger LLP in Worcester, Massachusetts. Serving central Massachusetts, her firm specializes in special needs planning, estate and trust administration, guardianship and conservatorship, estate planning, and elder law. The [...]

01 05, 2026

Five Ways to Avoid Conflict When Caring for an Elderly or Infirm Loved One

2026-07-31T11:42:27-04:00Tags: |

This issue of the Voice was written by SNA member Twyla Sketchley, B.C.S. of the Sketchley Law Firm, P.A. in Tallahassee, Florida. She specializes in guardianship, elder law, fiduciary representation, estate planning, and the prevention and maltreatment of elders and people with disabilities. Caring for elderly or infirm loved ones is difficult. It can bring [...]

10 28, 2025

Scott Suzuki

2025-11-03T13:14:24-05:00

Scott C. Suzuki, Esq. Scott C. Suzuki is the principal of Scott C. Suzuki, Attorney at Law, LLLC, a Honolulu-based firm focused on estate planning, special needs planning, long-term care and Medicaid planning, catastrophic injury and mass tort planning, guardianships, conservatorships, and probates. His practice serves seniors, individuals with disabilities, and their families, [...]

10 28, 2025

Rebecca Morgan

2025-11-03T13:13:16-05:00

Rebecca C. Morgan, Esq. Rebecca is a full-time law professor at Stetson University’s College of Law where she teaches Elder Law and Trusts and Estates. She is the co-author of Third-Party and Self-Created Trusts (ABA), Tax, Estate and Financial Planning for the Elderly and its companion forms book (Lexis), Fundamentals of Special Needs [...]

10 28, 2025

Robert Fechtman

2025-11-03T13:13:52-05:00

Robert W. Fechtman, CELA Robert Fechtman is the founder of Fechtman Law Office, a full-service elder law and special needs planning firm in Indianapolis, Indiana. His practice focuses on the needs of older adults and individuals with disabilities, including special needs trusts, estate planning, health law, Medicaid planning, guardianships, and probate. A lifelong [...]

10 28, 2025

Matthew Smith

2026-10-28T11:00:01-04:00

Matthew T. Smith, Esq., Secretary Matthew T. Smith, Esq. of Elder Law Lawyers McClelland & Associates, PLLC, has a passion for special needs law deeply rooted in his childhood experiences. His mother was a physical therapist, and Matthew often accompanied her on home health visits. He was inspired by one of his mother’s [...]

10 28, 2025

Ethan Ordog

2025-11-03T13:11:30-05:00

Ethan J. Ordog, Esq. Ethan Ordog is a partner at the Begley Law Group and concentrates his practice in estate and trust litigation, estate and trust administration, and guardianship. Ethan’s interest in special needs planning and guardianship springs from the idea that while life is complex for everyone, it is often even more [...]

10 28, 2025

Elena Lidrbauch

2025-11-03T13:10:00-05:00

Elena A. Lidrbauch, CELA Elena is an attorney and shareholder of Hickman Lowder Lidrbauch & Welch Co., L.P.A. serving northern Ohio. She operates primarily out of the Sheffield Village office and concentrates her practice in the areas of Medicaid planning, planning for families with special needs, estate planning, guardianship, estate administration, and trust [...]

10 28, 2025

Emily Kile

2025-11-03T13:10:56-05:00

Emily B. Kile, Esq. Emily is an attorney and a partner at Mushkatel, Gobbato & Kile, PLLC with offices in Sun City and Scottsdale, Arizona. She concentrates her practice in the areas of special needs planning, estate planning, guardianship and conservatorship, ALTCS (Medicaid) planning, probate and trust administration. Emily has been practicing law [...]