Once the Social Security Administration approves your Social Security disability benefits, you may continue to receive disability benefits indefinitely. However, some events can cause your disability benefits to stop. If your Social Security disability benefits stop, a Texas disability attorney may help you get your benefits restarted if a mistake or error caused your benefits to stop.
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Trusts have become an increasingly popular estate planning tool. Individuals with significant assets and complex family dynamics favor trusts to avoid the expense, public record, and protracted probate process.

However, as attractive as trusts can be for some, they aren’t the right choice for everyone. To make the proper estate planning decision for your family, Texas trusts attorneys strongly encourage you to consider not only the aforementioned trust benefits but also a few common disadvantages associated with trusts.

What are the Disadvantages of a Trust?

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What happens to your estate if you die without heirs in Texas will depend on whether you had estate planning documents or not. If you had a will or living trust agreement, your money and assets would get distributed according to the terms of those papers. If you did not have a will or living trust, you are intestate, and our state’s intestacy laws will determine who gets your estate.

Although it is rare, it is possible for the state of Texas to get everything that you left behind through intestacy. A Read more . . .

The rights of the beneficiary of a trust in Texas will depend on the language of the trust and our state’s statutory and case law. Generally, the terms of the trust document will take precedence over the statutes about the duties of the trustee and the rights of the beneficiaries, but the Texas Trust Code sets some hard limits about how far the trust document can deviate from the statutes. Also, the type of trust and the type of beneficiary will affect the beneficiary’s rights.

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The costs of nursing home and long-term care can be staggering, leaving many Texans to wonder if they have enough resources to see them through their final years? Rest assured, there are ways to receive government assistance without draining your life savings.

With a little planning and the expertise of a Texas Medicaid planning attorney, you can qualify for the help you need from Medicaid.

3 Things You Should Do Right Now to Qualify for Texas Medicaid

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Trusts offer many advantages: avoiding probate, managing distribution of assets, and ensuring that your wishes are carried out after your death. However, you might wonder if there are any benefits trusts provide to the living? The short answer is “Yes.”

Texas trust attorneys have been working diligently to advise clients about the merits of Spousal Lifetime Access Trusts. Read more . . .

Garden-variety estate planning will not get the job done when you have a child with special needs. You want to provide financial security for your child’s future, but if he inherits assets directly from you when you die, he might lose his eligibility for public assistance programs like Medicaid and Supplemental Security Income (SSI). Losing those benefits could cost him far more than the amount you give him in your will or through intestacy.

Estate planning laws in Texas and other states created a specialized type of trust that addresses this problem.

What You Should Know About a Special Needs Trust

A Special Needs Trust, also called a Supplemental Needs Trust, lets you arrange for some financial means for your child without jeopardizing his access to government benefits.
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Every parent should develop a complete estate plan to provide for and protect their children in the event that the parent dies before the child grows up and moves away from home. If you are living with the child's other parent, it is unlikely that the child will have to move away from the home, change schools, and adjust to a new neighborhood. For a single parent, there is no such safety net for the child.

Whether the relationship with the child's other parent ended through divorce or death or the other parent never was involved in the child's life, a single parent needs to provide far more protections for the child than a couple would need to arrange. There is not enough space here to cover all of the issues that a single parent needs to address in the estate plan.
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College plans. Retirement plans. Estate plans. At every corner, it seems like there is something to plan. For most, planning ahead for life’s changes offers security that we are taking care of ourselves and our loved ones through advanced preparation.
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SSDI claims involving emotional disorders are some of the most difficult and complex cases that a Texas social security disability attorney handles. The Social Security Administration (SSA) can approve individuals for disability benefits based on emotional disorders. However, the process can be frustrating because individuals are required to prove that the emotional disorder is so severe that it prevents them from working.
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Yes, Texas law does allow people to plan for the care of their pets through pet trusts and other estate planning tools. A Texas pet trusts attorney can help you create the right documents to ensure that your beloved cats, dogs, and other pets will have the care they need in the event of an emergency and down the road, if your pets outlive you.

Pet Trusts in Texas

You have the option to provide for your pets in a traditional trust or a special type of legal device called a statutory pet trust.
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