Until July, 2013, there was no statute in Tennessee governing how and under what circumstances a court could appoint an emergency conservator for a person with a disability (called the “respondent” in this type of proceeding). At the same time, there were...
This is not a post about legal issues, but rather about a hobby of mine–interviewing all the relatives in my family, my husband’s family, my ex-husband’s family, etc.–in an attempt to preserve the stories that family members know and that will...
Medicaid (known as TennCare in Tennessee) is a federal-state partnership program that pays for about half of long term care costs in America (excluding the costs of in-home care provided by families). Federal law sets out the limitations on assets that determine...
Each week I encounter someone who has promised a family member that he or she would never be placed in a nursing home. Other than extracting and making that promise, families have often done very little planning for the housing needs of senior family members. This...
When I graduated from law school in 1977, there was no subject called “Elder Law.” To be honest, I probably would not have taken that course, anyway. I was the first woman hired by a big, downtown law firm. I wanted to work in litigation, and I...
