Practice Areas
Houston, Texas: Medicaid Eligibility and Asset Protection
The best time to plan is before a crisis occurs — but sometimes that is not possible. At Wright Abshire, Attorneys, we work with families facing immediate medical and financial concerns, as well as with families wanting to prepare in advance for the inevitable financial concerns that accompany old age.
Wherever you are in life, whatever the care and financial planning issues facing your family, the estate planning and Medicaid eligibility attorneys of Wright Abshire are here to help you protect life's most valuable assets — your family.
Contact our estate planning lawyers today: send an e-mail, call (713) 660-9595 or call toll-free at (800) 280-4759.
Plan Ahead for Medicaid Eligibility · Learn About Asset Protection · Get Help With an Immediate Concern
One of the primary purposes of Medicaid is to pay for nursing home care when a person's age or health condition makes 24-hour care necessary. We encourage all our clients to take certain steps ahead of time to ensure eligibility for Medicaid without losing their life savings.
However, we also offer help in crisis situations — when, for example, a family member has had a medical emergency and unexpectedly needs nursing home care.
With regard to Medicaid eligibility and planning, our law firm offers the following services:
- Advice about Medicaid planning and Medicaid eligibility
- Income protection via qualified income trusts (also called Miller trusts)
- Asset protection utilizing our experience and legal techniques to avoid loss due to the cost of nursing homes
- Supervision of gifts and asset transfers
- Legal structuring of assets to avoid state recovery claims
- Representation of the estate or the family during Medicaid's estate recovery process
- Advice about Medicaid planning for persons suffering from Alzheimer's or dementia
- Supplemental Needs Trusts
- Advice and representation during the guardianship process
- Estate planning to prepare wills, trusts, advance directives and powers of attorney
- Probate of decedents' estates to ensure the proper passage of legal title to one's heirs or beneficiaries
- Avoidance of Inheritance and Estate tax
- Life care planning for aging adults
- Advice about MERP claims
- Advice about obtaining VA benefits
Over the years, we have found that many of our clients come to us with major misunderstandings about the Medicaid process or eligibility rules. Taking financial action without an accurate understanding of the Medicaid rules can result in serious negative consequences for your family's financial future. As a starting point, we offer potential new clients some information on misunderstandings about Medicaid.
Never Spend Down Your Savings Without Qualified Legal Advice
The experienced elder law attorneys at Wright Abshire have been counseling and representing elderly people and their families since 1982. It is always disappointing to learn that clients have spent the bulk of their assets because they thought the Medicaid eligibility rules required such a spend-down. This is especially distressing when there is a spouse at home who has become impoverished by this ill-advised relinquishment of assets.
There are ways to qualify for Medicaid without losing your life's savings.
Contact Wright Abshire, Attorneys, today to find out how. Send us an e-mail, call (713) 660-9595 or call (800) 280-4759.
Conveniently Serving You
Our ground-floor office is located in Bellaire, Texas, a suburb of Houston, and is wheelchair accessible, with accessible parking right in front of our office.
We also serve clients statewide throughout Texas and work with families located in other states to care for elder relatives in Texas. We are happy to make home, hospital and nursing home visits for clients. Some legal matters can also be handled via telephone consultations.
