Monthly Archives: May 2025
Understanding Medicare Plans
When you were so young that the occasional appearance in your mailbox of correspondence from the AARP still made you chuckle, you probably thought it strange that retired people spend so much time worrying about their healthcare expenses. After all, you pay a hefty portion of your paycheck toward employer-provided health insurance, when the… Read More »
Trust Litigation: It Can Happen To You
Toward the end of the movie The Usual Suspects, a criminal’s inner monologue tells the audience, in voiceover narration, “The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist.” Financial planners would have you believe that trusts are similarly elusive, that they can simply veil themselves and become invisible to… Read More »
Family Caregiving Is Overrated
It is easy to idealize the multigenerational household, but if you do this, you underestimate the stress and conflict that are constantly rumbling below the surface when more than two adults live together in the same house. Orrin Onken, a retired elder law attorney, recently wrote an article on Business Insider, in which he… Read More »
A Dose Of Reality For Geriatric Scientists
Your estate planning lawyer already knows that you never want to retire. In fact, your lawyer probably knew that by the time your first consultation was finished, when you said that you worked for a university in a STEM field. People whose jobs are as intellectually and socially engaging as yours do not count… Read More »
