The day your loved one enters a nursing facility is not a great day. Aside from your own emotional strain you will try valiantly to let your loved one know that you will stay close and advocate for his or her needs. And then there’s the paperwork. Lots of it.…
By Carmine Perri Imagine yourself in this situation: As a favor, you agree to help your spouse’s parent get settled into a nursing home. If you’re like most people, you’d be emotionally stressed and feeling a bit guilty. Not exactly the best mindset for absorbing complex information nor for making…
By Carmine Perri “Can they do that?” “I don’t think that’s appropriate.” “Can we do something about it?” For some time now, I have been receiving calls from residents in long-term care facilities, and their family members, asking these types of questions. Ultimately, interested parties want to know if there…
By Carmine Perri If you or your loved one is in a nursing home, you need to know your rights! Once you understand what they are, you can better stand up for them. Just as you are protected in your own home by a set of laws, residents of nursing…
By Carmine Perri About once a week the topic of spousal liability creeps its way into a client meeting or a telephone conference. Despite the question being posed to me in various different ways, the issue simply boils down to whether one spouse is liable for another spouse’s debt. I,…
By Attorney Carmine Perri Going to a nursing home is hard enough, imagine being evicted? Good news. There are laws in place to prevent that from happening. Within a nursing home, just like any other place you call home, you are entitled to certain rights. These rights include not being…