Accessing Services in New York City for Young Children with Special Needs
What services are available to New York City’s younger special needs children?
New York City special needs planning attorneys can help parents of disabled children with legal issues including guardianship, trusts and more. But there are many additional resources available—if only overwhelmed parents knew where to turn for help.
Accessing supports and/or services...
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Is 17A Guardianship Right for Your Special Needs Child?
What happens to parents’ rights when their special needs child turns 18?
Reaching the age of majority—eighteen-- is a milestone in New York. That means that all children – – including all those with intellectual or developmental disabilities – – are considered adults with the legal authority to make their own medical, financial and other...
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Can You Force Your Adult Drug-addicted Child to Go to a Rehab Facility?
As a parent, there is little more heartbreaking than having an adult child struggle with addiction. Rehab is often the only answer, but if the child is an adult, is there a way to force them to go? The answer is not straightforward as we may want. In the United States, the law prevents...
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Removing the Executor of the Estate
Can one remove the executor or the administrator of the estate? The process is not easy, but it has been done multiple times. Below are several common grounds for removal:
• Self-dealing. This means that the Executor of the Estate acts in the best interests...
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Psychiatric Advance Directives (PAD) – are they different from a regular health care proxy?
Every individual of adult years and sound mind has a right to choose what shall be done with his own body and to control the course of his medical treatment. Patient autonomy and self-determination are a firmly ensconced principle in New York State Law. But what happens with patients who have lost...
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What is the right age to get a Power of Attorney?
My answer to this question is always the same: 18! Before you turn 18, your parents are legally responsible for you and can make legal decisions on your behalf. After you turn 18, NO ONE can do that. It comes as a huge shock to most of my clients, but in the event...
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Rich and Famous Planning: Sumner Redstone – an estate plan that is embarrassment for the man, the family and the company?
Mr. Redstone’s fortune is estimated at $5 billion. He could afford the best legal plan in the world. Yet, despite the assets and despite the multitude of involved lawyers, his estate planning and his last years are turning out to be a mess.Mr. Redstone tried to put in place plans that would ensure...
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What is a Guardianship
When is it Necessary: Having a Power of Attorney and a Health Care Proxy are the best ways of ensuring that your wishes are honored by a person that you trust. Sometimes, however, an individual loses capacity and has not executed these advanced directives. Without a Power of Attorney, NO ONE has the right...
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