PA Elder, Estate & Fiduciary Law Blog
This blawg focuses on elder law, long-term care, end-of-life and health care surrogate decision-making, estate and personal planning, fiduciary administrations (by agents under powers of attorney, custodians, guardians, executors/administrators and trustees), elders' dispute resolution, and Orphans' Court litigation in Pennsylvania, with reference to trends nationally.
Author: Neil E. Hendershot is a partner at Tucker Arensberg in Harrisburg, Pa. He also authors PA Healthcare DecisionMaking.
Blawg Related Categories: Elder Law • Trusts & Estates • States • Pennsylvania • Partner
Recent Posts from PA Elder, Estate & Fiduciary Law Blog
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Proposed DPW Lien Expansion Opposed
Since April, 2009, Pennsylvania lawyers carefully followed proposed state legislation (House Bill 1351) that would significantly expand Medicaid recovery beyond the current target -- a recipient's estate after death -- to more targets in which…
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PBA Elder Law Newsletter (Spring, 2009) Available
In May, 2009, the Elder Law Section of the Pennsylvania Bar Association issued its semi-annual Newsletter, Vol. 8, No. 1 (PDF, 31 pages), containing fifteen articles or notices, to its members.For a limited time, that…
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More "Truth About Probate and Living Trusts"
The Allegheny County Bar Association and the Pennsylvania Attorney General’s Office will conduct a second, free “Truth About Probate and Living Trusts” Clinic for the public, this time in the North Hills area of Allegheny…
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Social Security & Medicare Slipping into the Future
CNN posted an interview headlined "Medicare is the real danger, not social security" on May 13, 2009, that highlighted the significant slippage in sustainability of the present Medicare and Social Security benefit systems.Unfunded obligations of…
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New "Quality Council" to Advise on Independent Living Services
On May 12, 2009, the Pennsylvania Department of Aging and the Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare, through its Office of Long-Term Living, announced creation of a new advisory council to focus on "quality management of…
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Blogging on the Bus
I'm riding on a bus as I write this blog entry, which illustrates, in just one trip, a few trends affecting elders (and all of us in America) -- changes in employment patterns, in technology,…
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PBA's Young Lawyers Sponsor "Wills for Heroes"
In 2009, the Pennsylvania Bar Association, through its Young Lawyers Division, now sponsors a Wills for Heroes program, which "provides no-cost wills, living wills, and health care and financial powers of attorney to first responders…
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New Advance Directive Form Released
Recently, Robert B. Wolf, Esq., of Pittsburgh, PA, sent an email alert to his "P & T Hot Tip" recipients and to the Pennsylvania members of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel regarding…
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Proposed Expansion of PA Medicaid Recovery
On Friday, May 1, 2009, Katherine Pearson (Professor of Law, Penn State Dickinson School of Law), as Chair of the Pennsylvania Bar Association's Elder Law Section, sent an email message alerting section members that, "[a]s…
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Real Estate Tax: Reassessments Needed More Often
On April 29, 2009, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court unanimously held, in a Majority Opinion written by Chief Justice Castille in Clifton, et al. v. Allegheny County, Nos. 20 & 21 WAP 2007 (PDF, 53 pages),…