| The Nursing Home Decision, Finding a Nursing Home, and the Cost |
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| A nursing home is a facility that becomes a new home for an elderly person. The facility offers food, skilled nursing care, rehabilitation, medical services, personal services, and recreational activities.
The decision to place the elder person in a nursing home facility can be very taxing on the family members. The decision is even more difficult if the elder is reluctant to residing in a nursing home facility. More... |
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| Tax Consequences of Property Settlements |
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| Under the Internal Revenue Code (IRC) gain or loss is virtually never recognized upon transfers of property between spouses or between former spouses if incident to a dissolution. The adjusted basis of the property remains the same after the transfer. The general rule is that gain or loss is not recognized upon a transfer of property between spouses or former spouses incident to divorce.More... |
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| Exclusive Jurisdiction of Original State Under UIFSA |
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| Under the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act (UIFSA), there is only one controlling support order even when multiple states are involved in enforcing it. Once a support order is established, the issuing state has continuing, exclusive jurisdiction to modify that order. The issuing state retains exclusive jurisdiction to modify, upon proper petition, so long as one of the individual parties or the child continue to reside in that state. Modification jurisdiction may be sought in child support cases only when all individual parties and the child have left the issuing state or when the parties have agreed in writing for another state to exercise jurisdiction. More... |
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| Access to Adoption Records |
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| The adoption process has traditionally been a closed proceeding. In most agency adoptions and in many private placements, the adoptive and biological parents do not meet and do not know each other's identity. While court proceedings are not open to the public. Once the adoption is granted, the records of the proceeding, along with the investigative reports on the parties, are sealed and are generally not available for inspection by anyone except upon court order for ''good cause.'' More... |
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| Nursing Home Problems |
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| Once an elder person or the family of the elder person makes the decision to place the elder in a nursing home, they must select a nursing home. After selecting a nursing home problems may arise. More... |
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