Living Trusts can Jeopardize Nursing Home Care

More and more these days “investment advisers” -- who may or may not be practicing law without a license -- are selling Trusts as vehicles for preventing probate delays and expenses, avoiding taxes and providing for estate management. Yet many of those marketing Trusts either do not recognize, or intentionally avoid discussing, a serious problem inherent in using Trusts in the context of an aging population: Trusts are a useful estate-planning tool but can...