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Whether in a crisis situation or not,  Alzheimer's attorneys and legal staff prepare Los Angeles families with Alzheimer's Dementia focusing on a care plan, which helps implement goals and small steps to protect your parents or the person with dementia.   Our attorney in Los Angeles, Pasadena and Glendale has over 27 years of experience putting a protective Alzheimer's care plan together for families like yours.  Attorneys at Sirkin Law Group have a philosophy of preventative legal care.    We do not just manage Alzheimer's dementia, we legally prepare for it.   Talk to our lawyers about your family's Alzheimer's or dementia problems and how to manage care for your aging parents.

Our services range from finding financial resources for housing, nursing home planning, conservatorship for Alzheimer's and dementia patients, elder law, and care planning for dementia.   

How do you prepare for a person with dementia or Alzheimer's disease?

1.  Ask whether any of your parents or other family members have had dementia, Alzheimers or Parkinson's disease?   

2.   Unfocus from the disease itself and focus on small goals.

3.   If any member of your family has had dementia, Alzheimer's or Parkinson's disease, then you must put in place a series of legal documents to protect yourself and your family.

4.   The legal documents we recommend to our clients with a family history of dementia is as follows:

A.   A Living Trust

B.   A Will

C.   Durable Power of Attorney for Asset Management.

D.   Advanced Health care Directive OR a Durable Power of Attorney for Health Care and HIPAA authorizations.

E.   A complete inventory of assets updated yearly.  

F.   A legal transfer document allowing transfers of appropriate assets to the trust.

If you have a family member who has already been diagnosed with dementia, it is not too late to put together protective documents, if a physician can certify the capacity of the person with dementia.

Even when a person loses mental capacity, it is still not too late, even if no legal documents are in already in place, because we can still prepare for dementia, with a Conservatorship proceeding, with a substituted judgment petition and a court order.  Yes, we can even prepare wills and trusts after capacity is lost, with a court order.  Our Alzheimer's attorneys are legal professionals here to assist you and your family in Los Angeles.

Mina Sirkin is a dementia attorney, Certified Specialist Attorney in Probate, Estate Planning, and Trust Law in California helping families in Los Angeles Ca.   With over 22 years of experience, we can advise you on how to legally prepare for dementia step-by-step.   Los Angeles Conservatorship Attorney and to Dementia & Elder Law Attorneys Los Angeles.  Call us at 818.340.4479 0r 800.300.9977. Call and talk to our attorneys about Alzheimer's and dementia in Los Angeles and Glendale.  Schedule a call or a virtual online appointment here.  

 

 

 

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Attorneys for Families with Alzheimer's Dementia Los Angeles Attorney | Sirkin Law Group  Wills Trusts Estates | 818.340.4479 | Los Angeles Alzheimer's | Conservatorship & Alzheimers Care Ca

Whether in a crisis situation or not,  Alzheimer's attorneys and legal staff prepare Los Angeles families with Alzheimer's Dementia focusing on a care plan, which helps implement goals and small steps to protect your parents or the person with dementia.   Our attorney in Los Angeles, Pasadena and Glendale has over 27 years of experience putting a protective Alzheimer's care plan together for families like yours.  Attorneys at Sirkin Law Group have a philosophy of preventative legal care.    We do not just manage Alzheimer's dementia, we legally prepare for it.   Talk to our lawyers about your family's Alzheimer's or dementia problems and how to manage care for your aging parents.

Our services range from finding financial resources for housing, nursing home planning, conservatorship for Alzheimer's and dementia patients, elder law, and care planning for dementia.   

How do you prepare for a person with dementia or Alzheimer's disease?

1.  Ask whether any of your parents or other family members have had dementia, Alzheimers or Parkinson's disease?   

2.   Unfocus from the disease itself and focus on small goals.

3.   If any member of your family has had dementia, Alzheimer's or Parkinson's disease, then you must put in place a series of legal documents to protect yourself and your family.

4.   The legal documents we recommend to our clients with a family history of dementia is as follows:

A.   A Living Trust

B.   A Will

C.   Durable Power of Attorney for Asset Management.

D.   Advanced Health care Directive OR a Durable Power of Attorney for Health Care and HIPAA authorizations.

E.   A complete inventory of assets updated yearly.  

F.   A legal transfer document allowing transfers of appropriate assets to the trust.

If you have a family member who has already been diagnosed with dementia, it is not too late to put together protective documents, if a physician can certify the capacity of the person with dementia.

Even when a person loses mental capacity, it is still not too late, even if no legal documents are in already in place, because we can still prepare for dementia, with a Conservatorship proceeding, with a substituted judgment petition and a court order.  Yes, we can even prepare wills and trusts after capacity is lost, with a court order.  Our Alzheimer's attorneys are legal professionals here to assist you and your family in Los Angeles.

Mina Sirkin is a dementia attorney, Certified Specialist Attorney in Probate, Estate Planning, and Trust Law in California helping families in Los Angeles Ca.   With over 22 years of experience, we can advise you on how to legally prepare for dementia step-by-step.   Los Angeles Conservatorship Attorney and to Dementia & Elder Law Attorneys Los Angeles.  Call us at 818.340.4479 0r 800.300.9977. Call and talk to our attorneys about Alzheimer's and dementia in Los Angeles and Glendale.  Schedule a call or a virtual online appointment here.  

 

 

 

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Conservatorship Seminar | When to Start Taking Care of Your Parents Audio Seminar

When to Start Taking Care of Your Parents Audio Seminar

Learn the signs of cognitive decline and what you can do about it so you can care for and protect your parents. Find out if your elderly parent needs a conservatorship or if they qualify for alternatives to conservatorships.

DATE:   December 8, 2018 at 11 a.m.

Registration is required through this link.  

https://goo.gl/forms/hwCGQRa0gGwpbbJB3

Elder Law Woodland Hills

Speaker:  Mina N. Sirkin, Esq.

Contact Conservatorship Attorney:   818.340.4479

Once you have registered, we will email or text you the call in number and passwords.

This seminar is limited to 10 participants.

Learn the signs of cognitive decline and what you can do about it so you can care for and protect your parents. Find out if your elderly parent needs a conservatorship or if they qualify for alternatives to conservatorships.

DATE:   December 8, 2018 at 11 a.m.

Registration is required through this link.  

https://goo.gl/forms/hwCGQRa0gGwpbbJB3

Elder Law Woodland Hills

Speaker:  Mina N. Sirkin, Esq.

Contact Conservatorship Attorney:   818.340.4479

Once you have registered, we will email or text you the call in number and passwords.

This seminar is limited to 10 participants.

Is a Conservator allowed to purchase life insurance for the Conservatee?

A conservator is only allowed to purchase life insurance with the conservatorship asset, with a prior court order, called a substituted judgment petition order.

A conservator needs a court order to purchase life insurance on the life of the conservatee, with the assets of the conservatorship estate.  Because the purchase of such a life insurance is with the conservatee's assets, the conservator has to show that the purchase would be a) desired by the conservatee; and b) would be reasonable, in light of the costs to the conservatee.   For example, if a conservatee would normally be obligated to support a spouse or a minor child, the court may consider that as a legitimate reason for the conservator to apply to the court for such a purchase.

Authority to purchase is one aspect of the purchase, but the life insurance company's underwriting requirements regarding issuance of the life insurance for someone who is disabled, is a separate hurdle to overcome, after the order is obtained from the court.

The designation of a beneficiary of a life insurance in a conservatorship case, requires a Substituted Judgment Petition made to the court.

For more information on Life insurance and conservatorship matters, contact, Mina Sirkin, specialist conservatorship attorney in Los Angeles County.  818.340.4479

For a Probate Private Conservator Referral, contact us.

 

Other articles of interest: 

Role of a Conservatorship Attorney in Management of Estates in Woodland Hills

What happens after a conservatorship ends?

Conservatorship as Protective Measures in Family Disputes

Wills for Disabled Persons by Woodland Hills Conservatorship Attorney

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Substituted Judgment Petition in Probate Conservatorship -- Los Angeles Woodland Hills

A substituted judgment petition in Los Angeles directs the Conservator to do a few things on behalf of a disabled person who has a Conservatorship case in probate court.  Our Woodland Hills Elder Law Attorney can help your family.

With a Substituted Judgment Petition, a Conservator can do the following:

• Make a Will or Trust (Revocable or Irrevocable Trusts);
• Give a gift of principal or income, or both, of the estate, outright or in trust.
• Transfer, convey or release the conservatee’s interests in property, including marital property rights and any right of survivorship incident to joint tenancy or tenancy by the entirety.
• Exercise or release the disabled person’s powers as donee of a power of appointment.
• Enter into many different types of contracts.
• Transfer assets to a trust created by the conservator or conservatee.
• Exercise options in securities.
• Change beneficiaries on accounts or policies.
• Exercise the rights of the disabled person in someone else’s will or estate.
• Exercising disclaimers.
• Modify or revoke a revocable trust or giving up the right to revoke or modify a revocable trust, unless the trust provides restrictions on this as to a conservator.
• Making elections referred to in Section 13502 or an election and agreement referred to in Section 13503.
• Making or revoking a revocable transfer on death deed.
• Other actions.

Substituted Judgment proceedings are a good way to prevent elder financial abuse.   If you have objections to a substituted judgment petition or wish to establish or contest a substituted judgment petition in California, we can help you.

Mina Sirkin helps families with Substituted Judgment matters in Conservatorship relating to Elder Law needs in Woodland Hills and Los Angeles.

Mina N. Sirkin, Board Certified Specialist Attorney in Trust and Probate

Law in Los Angeles Ca handling

Contested Substituted Judgment Petitions in California

Call: 818.340.4479

Email: [email protected]

 

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Mina Sirkin

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Woodland Hills, CA 91367

818.340.4479

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