San Francisco Bay Area will and trust attorney Gary Brainin asks, “Are you planning for your children’s future?” Picture this: you get an opportunity to spend some alone time with your spouse. What do you do to prepare for date night? You carefully select a babysitter. Then, you write detailed instructions: when to feed the […]

Santa Clara Special Needs Lawyer: Special Needs Trusts Protect Government Benefits and MUCH More! Unfortunately, many parents of children with special needs wait until their child turns 18 to consider creating a Special Needs Trust. Sometimes, they even wait until their child eventually needs government benefits like SSI or Medi-Cal. However, Special Needs Trusts do […]

The number of adult children caring for their elderly parents is growing at a very fast pace. If you are a baby boomer and not already caring for an elderly parent, chances are high that you might be facing this situation soon. It isn’t always easy to know when, or how, to step in to […]

As an elder care lawyer in Santa Clara, I work with families to prepare for any number of situations in the estate planning process. One circumstance that is especially relevant to elder care law is dementia. Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia are almost exclusively conditions which appear late in life. Along with the […]