There is one aspect of estate planning that not everyone has to do but is very important to those who need it: planning for the future of a child with disabilities. This could include a child who was ...

What are ABLE accounts? Special needs trust attorney Ellen Cookman talks with “Enable: The Disability Podcast” about 529 ABLE ...

Any parent of a child with a disability has likely heard of a “special needs trust.” As information has become more easily available online, a simple Google search for “special needs trust” is likely ...

For individuals with disabilities, an inheritance or settlement can jeopardize a their government benefits, such as Medicaid and Supplemental Security Income (SSI). A special needs trust (SNT) can ...

A special needs trust is a legal way to help provide for a person with a disability without disqualifying them for governmental benefits. One of the main financial risks of having a disability is that ...

Berkeley, California (CNN) — Over a decade before her husband’s death, Linda Tung was already concerned with estate planning. Their daughter, Rachel, was born with cerebral palsy, a neurological ...

Tung, 75, and Rachel, 36, live in the downstairs unit of a house walking distance from San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. Tung’s son and his family live in a separate unit upstairs. When the family’s ...