Christy Bieber has a JD from UCLA School of Law and began her career as a college instructor and textbook author. She has been writing full time for over a decade with a focus on making financial and ...

Due to changes in Medicaid rules, the once-common practice of utilizing a life estate to protect the value of an individual’s residence from long-term care costs, such as a nursing home or assisted ...

A life estate provides a way to split the ownership of an asset and is useful for estate planning purposes. By creating joint ownership of an asset such as a family home, a typical life estate allows ...

Once again this holiday season The Day will continue its long-running tradition of publishing its Make a Difference series. The daily series highlights our neighbors who area social service agencies ...

It’s sorta yours. But it’s sorta not. It’s really something in between. What we are talking about is a “life estate.” But before we get there, we have to understand both what constitutes an “estate” ...