Keystone Blog
The Family Home: Part I of 3
Circumstances of Family Home Transfer This is the first of a three-part series to review options of how to transfer the family home from one generation to the next. This week’s article reviews a variety of circumstances that affect how options may be...
Caregiver Rest – An Impossible Dream?
Rest is often an elusive concept for caregivers. The opportunity to rest in the midst of caregiving is called “respite,” and is generally thought of as a program or service which relieves a caregiver of direct responsibility for the care recipient for a designated...
Cognitive Impairment and Voting Rights
Over the last two decades, persons over the age of 65 have demonstrated by far the greatest rate of participation in voting among all voter age groups. According to U.S. Census Bureau data, 66.1% of people aged 65 and over voted in the 2018 general election,...
Elder Law – a Re-Introduction
In some ways I feel like Yogi Berra, the quotable Yankee catcher and Hall-of-Famer, having “deja vu all over again” as I begin this re-introduction to Keystone Elder Law. The firm has been in existence since 2010, and this, our first article in The Sentinel,...
Body Donation to Science in PA
The first time I seriously though about body donation to science after death was when my parents finalized their estate plans and appointed me to be their primary agent. They explained how they wanted their bodies to be donated to science. Although previously I had...
Is Aging in Place Your Goal?
I have a Stone Soup comic (https://www.stonesoupcartoons.com/) posted by my desk. In this two block strip, two older men are sitting on a park bench. One of the men states “They sat me down and said, ‘Pops, we need to talk about aging in place.’ ” In the...
Cremation Considerations
Deciding what to do with the remains of a loved one can be a touchy subject, especially if the deceased’s only stated preference was to say “no muss no fuss,” which means different things to different people. While the topic of advance funeral planning is...
Medical Assistance Qualification with a Gift Annuity
If your widowed parent is in a nursing home, you might think that it is too late to save assets, or that you can’t get government help to pay for their care before all of their money runs out over time. That is not true. You can save money and avoid...
The Voting Process This November
This month we are celebrating 100 years of women’s suffrage. It took almost 100 years of struggle until women finally obtained voting rights on August 18, 1920 with the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Women such as Elizabeth Cady...
Social Security: Unlocking the Secrets
Get What’s Yours, was published on February 17, 2015, and explained how to exploit the “file and suspend” provisions of Social Security. We wrote about that here in November 2015. Congress changed Social Security late in 2015 to close the loopholes...
