Medicaid law provides special protections for the spouses of Medicaid applicants to make sure the spouses have the minimum support needed to continue to live in the community while their husband or ...

It is common for a client whose spouse is receiving Medicaid to lack adequate estate planning to protect those Medicaid benefits in the event the client dies before their spouse. Yet, after all of the ...

ndividuals who file a joint tax return accept joint and several liability for any underpayments. IRC section 6015(a) provides an innocent spouse protection from an assessed deficiency due to an ...

The 1988 Medicare Catastrophic Coverage Act included the addition of spousal impoverishment protections to the Medicaid program. These protections apply when one spouse is seeking Medicaid coverage ...

Location, location, location is not just vital in real estate. Where you live also can have critical tax implications for your taxes, especially for married couples. There are two very different kinds ...

Anything that has a beneficiary designation, such as retirement accounts and life insurance, would typically pass to the person named as beneficiary even if that’s not the surviving spouse. Bank and ...