What happens if I need long term care?

By Mia Poliquin Pross, Esq. It’s no secret – long term care is incredibly expensive. The average cost of nursing home care in Maine is about $10,000 per month. How do you pay for that expense if or when it’s needed? There are generally only a handful of payment...

How can I protect my home?

By Kathleen Kienitz, Esq. A recurrent question in the context of estate planning, is what can I do to protect my home? To get to the answer, it is necessary to first ask: protect it from what? More often than not, the answer to the second question is usually along the...

Risky Gifts

By Mia Poliquin Pross, Esq. We often talk to elderly people who are living in homes that are too big and burdensome for their current lifestyle or health condition. But those homes are sometimes the elder’s major asset and they want to leave it as an inheritance for...