Phone: 208.367.0723______E-mail: [email protected]

ELDER LAW

Elder law focuses on legal issues affecting older adults, including estate planning, wills, trusts, long-term care, guardianships, and elder abuse. It aims to protect the rights and interests of seniors, ensuring their financial and personal well-being as they navigate complex legal and healthcare systems.

Phone: 208.368.0723 E-mail: [email protected]

TERMS TO KNOW

Estate Planning

The process to prepare for ones assets and beneficiaries after a person is incapacitated or deceased. It may include a Will, trust and power of attorney documents.

Long Term Care

Generally referring to care an elder may need outside of the home such as assisted living, memory care, and skilled nursing care; but can also include services designed to meet a person’s health or personal care needs when they can no longer perform activities of daily living on their own.

Will

The most well known of estate planning tools. A will, if drafted and executed according to state law, will ensure that your property is dispersed according to your wishes and that your loved ones are provided for as you intended.

ELDER LAW

Elder law focuses on legal issues affecting older adults, including estate planning, wills, trusts, long-term care, guardianships, and elder abuse. It aims to protect the rights and interests of seniors, ensuring their financial and personal well-being as they navigate complex legal and healthcare systems.

Phone: 208.367.0723____E-mail: [email protected]

Trust

A trust is a legal entity that is able to own property and other assets. A Revocable Living Trust can be used to remove property & assets from the probate procedure, reduce estate taxes, preserve privacy, and manage financial affairs.

Assets

All money, property, and money-related rights that someone owns.

Estate

An estate is everything accumulated before a person dies and that they had an interest in at death.

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