Long Term Care Insurance And Filial Support For Parents- What is It- Why May It Become Necessary?

Once upon a time, as many bedtime stories began, long term care was not a huge, financial concern. People lived shorter lives, coronary heart disease was more prevalent which ended lives more quickly, Alzheimer’s, as we know it, was unknown. As a young boy, I watched my grandfather die in his bed at home in…

Watch Out Sons and Daughters – Filial Support Statutes Rising – Like Zombies

As I reported in Pennsylvania, now North Dakota, nursing homes are utilizing archaic filial support state statues to sue children of long term care patients. That is exactly what these laws allow – filial support for a parents unpaid expenses in a nursing facility or from some medical provider. Most of these state statues had…