When you are dealing with elder law estate planning issues involving care for your senior parent, your focus is on the day-to-day events rather than estate planning elder law or conservatorship. The job of an elder law attorney is to give you guidance about many different aspects of elder care and elder law. Our skilled elder law attorneys at the Los Angeles Law Offices of Sirkin Law Group, PC can explain the differences between estate and elder law planning and conservatorship and provide the guidance you need to tend to your parent. We can in many cases help avoid a conservatorship in Los Angeles with skilled preplanning.
First: Elder law planning is much broader than a conservatorship.
Second: Elder law planning can include representation of a competent person, generally an elder who wants to protect himself or herself. Often the process starts by a child who encourages his or her parent to retain an attorney. A Conservatorship is generally restrictive and pertains to a person who has become incompetent and cannot protect himself or herself.
The estate attorneys and lawyers at Sirkin Law Group can guide you in planning and obtaining financial resources to care for your elderly loved one or parent. Financial resources can include government benefits through Medicare, Medi-Cal/ Medicaid, Veterans benefits, IHSS, and Long Term Care insurance. If you have a loved one who has paid for long term care insurance and has not been successful at collecting anything from that insurance, please contact our esteemed counsel in elder law in Los Angeles for help.
Talk to us about when you are ready to plan for elder law by calling our attorney, Mina Sirkin, Los Angeles Elder law attorney at 818.340.4479.