Firm Overview
Estate Planning Law Firm ● Elder Law Attorneys
We are proud members of the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys.
Machado & Carden practices Elder Law. We are focused on planning for the security of our clients' futures and on solving unexpected legal chrisis that occur as a result of disability, aging or other end of life concerns.
What, exactly, is Elder Law?
"Elder law is a legal term coined to cover an area of legal practice that places an emphasis on those issues that affect the growing aging population."
The three major categories that make up elder law are:
- Estate planning and administration, including tax questions;
- Medicaid, disability and other long-term care issues; and
- Guardianship, conservatorship and commitment matters, including fiduciary administration.
Other issues found under the umbrella of elder law include
- estate planning
- wills
- trusts
- guardianships
- protection against elder abuse
- neglect
- fraud
- end-of-life planning
- all levels of disability and medical care
- retirement planning
- Social Security benefits
- Medicare and Medicaid coverage
- Medicaid planning
- consumer protection
- nursing homes and in-home care
- powers of attorney
- physicians' or medical care directives
- declarations and powers of attorney
- landlord/tenant needs
- real estate and mortgage assistance
- counseling and advocacy of rights
- tax issues
- discrimination.
Helping Clients React to Sudden Legal Crisis
You might need immediate representation following an unxpected event, for instance, the sudden illness of a spouse, such as a stroke. The questions faced by a client in crisis might include "
What will happen if a family member faces nursing home care for the rest of their life?
We offer a wide variety problem solving services if a family member requires long-term care, including Medicaid planning, and advance directives. Upon the death of a family member we can assist you with estate tax advice, estate administration, and probate representation. We represent people who need to establish guardianship or conservatorship over the estate of an aging or vulnerable adult. The firm's elder law attorneys understand that you will need our legal advice during highly charged emotional times. Because Elder Law is our primary focus, we can give you the compassion, empathy you need, and the skills to help assure that the legal issues at hand are resolved without adding undue stress to an already difficult time.
Helping to Prevent Future Legal Issues, and Protect Assets
Planning for the future requires action in the present. The attorneys of Machado & Carden buildour relationships with you by developing comprehensive estate and long-term care planning evaluations. The evaluations identify the best strategies to pursue in order to meet your estate planning and long-term health care objectives. We look at all the circumstances and issues around your financial situation and explain to you the related law and give recommendations to you so that you make informed decisions that impact your future.
The complex and ever-evolving rules of Medicaid play an increasingly important role in estate planning concerns. Our estate planning attorneys are current with changes and developments in the law to create strategies that help protect clients against future uncertainties. We are not only simply "current", we are dedicated to teaching all caregivers in the elderlaw, and disability fields about new changes, and how they impact our clients. Machado & Carden spends an large part of our time outside the court room offering training and education to those that serve you.
The experienced attorneys at Machado & Carden, LLP, help you prepare for, and resolve your estate planning and administration needs. Contact us today to schedule a consultation with one of our elder law lawyers at one of our convenient Massachusetts offices in Boston, Raynham, or Andover.