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New York Expands Due Process Rights for Medicaid MLTC Recipients
April 2nd, 2014 by David Goldfarb
New York State’s 2014 budget bill added additional due process protections to persons receiving home care under the Medicaid Managed Long Term Care (MLTC) Program. The bill makes clear that when an MLTC provider determines to eliminate or reduce home care services and a fair hearing is timely requested, then the recipient must continue to […]
Transition of Medicaid Nursing Home residents into Managed Care
March 27th, 2014 by David Goldfarb
Please note, the New York Legislature in its 2018 Budget bill has “carved out” nursing home services from Medicaid managed care. The New York State Department of Health (DOH) has announced that the new date for the transition of nursing home residents into managed care plans is slated to start June 1, 2014 (previously April 1) for new permanent placements in […]
Estate Planning Resources on the Web
February 10th, 2014 by David Goldfarb
Goldfarb Abrandt & Salzman LLP’s Trusts & Estates Articles. ABA’s Wills: Why You Should Have One and the Lawyer’s Role in Its Preparation Should I Have a Will? from Goldfarb & Abrandt LaGuru Internet Law Library: Trusts and Estates Cornell’s State Probate Statutes on the Internet Estate Planning Links National Network of Estate Planning Attorneys […]
Should I Have A Will?
February 9th, 2014 by David Goldfarb
Intestate or Testate A person who dies with a will is said to have died testate. A person who dies without a will dies intestate. In either case, the person who dies is called the decedent, and the property the person leaves at death is called the his or her estate. It is always preferable […]
The Estate Tax Is Back, but with Some Twists—and Opportunities
February 8th, 2014 by David Goldfarb
Reprinted with permission from Trusts & Estates Law Section Newsletter, Spring 2011, Vol. 44, No. 1, published by the New York State Bar Association, One Elk Street, Albany, NY 12207 After nine years of speculation about what would happen to the federal estate tax once its one-year “repeal” disappeared at the end of 2010, on […]
New Rules For Trustees In New York
September 6th, 2013 by David Goldfarb
On September 4, 2001, Governor Pataki signed into law 2001 N.Y. Laws 243, which made substantial changes to the Estates Powers and Trusts Law. The two most important changes to the EPTL are the powers to make adjustments between principal and income, and the ability to compute income using a “unitrust” computation. Power to Adjust. […]
