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Estate Planning & Elder Law
This session’s topic
The Lady Bird Deed
A way to pass your Florida home to your family that avoids probate, keeps your homestead protections, and most people have never heard of it.
We’ll open with this, then it’s your questions — on this or anything in estate planning and elder law.
Why this exists

Most of what people “know” about elder law is wrong.

This week someone told me, with complete confidence, that a revocable living trust would protect their savings so they could qualify for Medicaid. It will not. Not even close.

I hear things like this constantly, and the myths around long-term care and Medicaid are the most dangerous of all. Overpay your taxes and it stings. Lose some of an estate to probate costs and it’s a nuisance. But long-term care done wrong can take everything you spent a lifetime building.

Each session opens with one topic worth understanding — a quirk of the law most people miss, or something widely gotten wrong. Then the floor is yours.
What you can ask about

Bring whatever you’ve heard and aren’t sure is true.

A live, 45-minute online session. I open with the topic above, then you raise your hand and I answer. Come with a specific situation or a question that’s been nagging at you.

  • Long-term care: where to get care, how to get it paid for, and what programs are actually available.
  • Medicaid:what protects assets and what doesn’t, the five-year lookback, spousal rules, and the myths that cost families the most.
  • Estate planning: wills, trusts, powers of attorney, and whether what you have still does what you think it does.
  • Probate: what it is, what it costs, and how to keep your family out of it.

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Wednesday, July 1 · 12:00 PM ET
45-minute live session · online
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Who’s answering
Carl Zacharia, Attorney
Among the first attorneys in the region to focus on elder law — back when the field was still called geriatric law.
Licensed in Pennsylvania since 1993 and Florida since 1994.
Fifteen years hosting a live call-in radio show on KDKA Pittsburgh, answering these exact questions.
Author of Good Long-Term Care: How to Finally Get It and Pay for It (2014).
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26811 South Bay Drive, Suite 270, Bonita Springs, FL 34134  ·  (239) 345-4545  ·  ZacFreyLaw.com
This webinar is for general educational purposes only and does not constitute legal advice or create an attorney-client relationship. Every situation is different; consult a licensed attorney about your specific circumstances. This is attorney advertising.