by admin | Aug 8, 2011 | Connecticut Estate Planning Attorney Blog, Real Estate Transactions
Real Estate Transactions: The conveyance tax has increased. When you sell your home, you will be required to pay a conveyance tax to the State of Connecticut and the City/Town where the property is located. The State conveyance tax had been .5% of the gross sales...
by admin | Aug 1, 2011 | Connecticut Estate Planning Attorney Blog, Personal Injury
Personal Injury Cases: Good news for Connecticut workers. If you are injured at work and your injury is the fault of a third party, you have a right to sue the third party for damages and losses caused by the injury. This is independent of and in addition to your...
by admin | Jul 25, 2011 | Connecticut Estate Planning Attorney Blog, Medicaid and Long Term Care
Medicaid planning: Bad news for Connecticut spouses applying for Medicaid. If one spouse is in a nursing home (“Institutionalized Spouse”) and the other spouse remains at home (“Community Spouse”) federal law allows the Community Spouse to keep ½ of the couple’s...
by admin | Jun 25, 2011 | Connecticut Estate Planning Attorney Blog, Estate Planning
Estate planning: Complicating news for Connecticut estate planning. This session of the Legislature reduced the Connecticut Estate Tax exemption for property passing to a non-spouse beneficiary from $3,500,000.00 to $2,000,000.00. The reduction of the exemption is...
by admin | Mar 29, 2011 | Connecticut Estate Planning Attorney Blog, Medicaid and Long Term Care
The general background. Nursing homes continue to feel the same financial squeeze that individuals and families have been feeling. As a consequence, we have noticed much more aggressiveness by nursing homes in going after all potential sources of payment for unpaid...
