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Planning for Children and Adult Children With Special Needs

Planning for Children and Adult Children With Special Needs

Making plans that address your child’s experience while living with certain impairments requires careful thought and planning. When looking toward their future, consider your child’s ability to make decisions and find the resources they will need.

The Best Way to Help Your Special Needs Child Enter Adulthood

The Best Way to Help Your Special Needs Child Enter Adulthood

There are practical and legal steps to take when planning for your child with special needs as they turn eighteen and become a legal adult. Begin well before their birthday to ease the transition and ensure they continue receiving their…

Adult Children with Disabilities: Creating a Support System

Adult Children with Disabilities: Creating a Support System

Growing numbers of people with disabilities live in the United States, and planning for an adult child’s future well-being is a responsive, continuous process. A Journal of the American Medical Association reports the life expectancy of adults with Down Syndrome…

Special Needs Trusts and ABLE Accounts: A Comparison

Special Needs Trusts and ABLE Accounts: A Comparison

People with disabilities can save money tax-free through special needs trusts (SNT) and Achieving a Better Life Experience accounts (ABLE). Both options provide a mechanism for saving money and protecting resources that ensures the person with a disability (PWD) continues…

Children With Special Needs: Managing Their Money Over Their Lifetime

Children With Special Needs: Managing Their Money Over Their Lifetime

The estate planning of children with special needs presents a unique challenge. Optimizing your estate to use, enhance, and enrich assets for your special needs child while maintaining their enrollment in public benefits programs requires careful planning. An estate planning…

Avoid These Mistakes When Planning for a Disabled Family Member

Avoid These Mistakes When Planning for a Disabled Family Member

Did you know the largest single minority in this country are the 58 million Americans five years of age or older that are identified as special needs? The majority of federal and state benefits available to help persons with disabilities…

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