Help! Need advice on family property...

[David Merrill]

Keep her out of the facility. Examine what kind of insurance and Medicare/Medicaid benefits are available. At 84 you should have some idea based on her past care. I think it rare that she just went senile. But maybe it is a minor stroke that has made a major deterioration or something like that.

If you cannot keep her out of the facility then the automatic lien on the house will be difficult to prevent.

But here is the best approach. If she has to go into the facility then treat the State as an eleemosynary corporation and Grandma as an hieress to the original estate. If your father can manage to treat the State like Grandma is owed an entirely top-notch health care program - every last cent of it he may save that house in your estate. This means he will have to take every document home unsigned, you pore over every clause and strike through anything that says you will owe any money, and anything that even implies that any home owned by Grandma will be subject to lien or in any way support medical expenses. Leave only the things that work in favor monetarily and leave all liablilty in the State.

Got that? Now if they refuse to accept Grandma into the facility let's see what we can do for you. [You do realize that accepting legal advice from an Internet website is a bit beyond rediculous! So much so I do not even bother to make the doldrum disclosures and caveats.] The chance the State will reject Grandma's admission is about nil. Especially if she is already physically in the facility. I strongly suspect she will be treated like a queen compared to run of the mill admissions.

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