The Coalition to End the Two-Year Wait for Medicare enthusiastically supports the introduction of the Ending the Medicare Disability Waiting Period Act of 2009. The Act would eliminate the current two-year delay in coverage for people with severe disabilities who are waiting to become eligible for Medicare coverage.
Among the advocacy groups in support of this [...]
The Revocable Living Trust has been growing in popularity as an estate planning tool for several years. The trend toward making a Living Trust an important element of an estate plan is understandable. A Living Trust offers benefits to both the individual who has established the Trust, called the Settlor or Grantor, and to his [...]
While the subject may be difficult to think about, it remains a fact that most people will spend some portion of their lifetimes in an assisted care facility. The possibility also exists that individuals may run up large medical bills both before and during placement in such a facility. It is therefore important to be [...]
Bernard A. Krooks has been invited to be the featured speaker at Estate Planners Day 2009, an event sponsored by the Estate Planning Council of New York City. Mr. Krooks will present on the topic of “Use of Special Needs Trusts in an Estate Planning Practice”.
Mr. Krooks is the President of the Special Needs Alliance [...]
Houston immigration attorney Annie Banerjee has some breaking news about H-1B visas.
The H-1B visa, or specialty occupation work visa, is a non-immigrant temporary status given to individuals in a “specialty occupation” or profession. They need at least a Bachelor’s Degree in a field where the job is. Since 2007, Ms. Banerjee notes that many H-1B [...]
The impending deportation of accused Nazi death camp guard, Demjanjuk, is a long time in coming. But why did it take so long? Houston immigration lawyer Annie Banerjee has some relevant comments about why the 89-year-old Cleveland suburbanite is now being deported.
The process of deporting and stripping accused Nazi concentration camp guard, John Demjanjuk, began [...]
Annie Bannerjee decries the deaths of detainees in ICE custody, as well as inadequate medical practices leading to negligent care of detainees.
“I hate the term ‘gulag’ when applied to American systems. It makes me wince just thinking about it,” asserts Houston area immigration lawyer, Bannerjee. While she considers Houston-area ICE-run facilities as being “reasonably adequate” [...]
Immigration advocates have criticized conditions at detention centers where ICE detainees are housed.
Beware the Ides of March, especially if you’re a detainee being sheltered in a detention center or other facility under the auspices of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). According to studies published by the Human Rights Watch and the Florida Immigrant Advocacy [...]
Recording and saving online passwords in a safe place should be a foremost consideration and an integral part of long-term care estate planning should your loved one become incapacitated or die.
Even a decade ago, the keeping of gateways and access providers, such as passwords, must have seemed inconsequential to those charged with drawing up estate [...]
Elder Law attorneys are increasingly including video and other forms of tangible legacy as part of the estate plans they prepare.
An estate planner’s office must necessarily be about death, but it should also be about life. In everyone’s lives are personal and extraordinary stories which are there for the telling, and if expressed well, might [...]
In early December, the CLASS, or Community Living Assistance Services and Supports Act, survived a vote aimed at removing it from the Senate health reform bill. The House and Senate bills both contain a version of the act.
Although the CLASS Act is buried deep in both bills and has garnered little media attention, its potential [...]
As the cost of health care increases, many people are turning to the internet. Using health insurance comparison services, many people and families are lowering costs.
During tough economic times, many individuals and families start looking at their monthly budget to determine where they can cut costs. Unfortunately, for families that do not have group health [...]
Wrongful death verdicts are rarely less than $1 million, no matter what the precipitating circumstances.
Wrongful deaths are the saddest events of all, so it makes sense that the ensuing verdicts arising from these invariably emotionally devastating cases are the most fruitful as to settlements and awards. No matter who dies “wrongfully” as precipitated by negligence [...]
