Setting Up a Small Group Home
When contemplating an ideal environment for a loved one with a disability, a small group home is often considered, given its many benefits.
Supplemental Needs Trust Distribution and Special Needs Housing Subsidies
This issue of The Voice® is written by SNA member Kristin L. Steckbeck with Dale, Huffman & Babcock in Bluffton, Indiana. Serving northeastern Indiana, her firm focuses on special needs planning, estate planning, long-term care planning and probate, estate, and trust administration. Administering a supplemental need trust (SNT) for a beneficiary receiving federally subsidized [...]
Leaving a Residence to a Person with a Disability
This issue of The Voice® is written by Lauretta K. Murphy of Miller Johnson in Grand Rapids, Michigan. She focuses her practice on estate planning, elder law, disability and special needs planning, guardianship and conservatorships and wills and trust disputes.
What to Know When Your Child With Disabilities Turns 22
On the heels of a child with special needs’ biggest milestones becoming an adult at eighteen (18) comes the next and arguably more challenging milestone – life after turning twenty-two (22). What services end? What do parents and guardians need to know? To help prepare for this transition, we have highlighted some of the top considerations.
The Top 5 Things to Know When Your Child With Disabilities Turns 18
The eighteenth birthday of a child with special needs marks the beginning of significant changes regarding the benefits and services they can receive. While there are many things to consider, we have outlined the top five to help you prepare for your child’s major milestone.
Individuals with Disabilities and the Animals Providing Them Services
The following Article for the Voice is an update of one previously published, and reflects the ever-changing rules and regulations with respect to service animals and emotional support animals, particularly: the Americans With Disabilities Act, the U.S. Dept. of Transportation regulations, the U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development rules, and the Fair Housing Act.
This article was co-authored by SNA member Richard Kroll, and by Nicholas S. Proukou, of the Kroll Law Firm LLP. Both focus their practices in Trusts, Estates, and Special Needs Planning. You will find them in Rochester, NY and may visit them at www.kroll-lawoffice.com