Welcome to the Farr Law Firm, recognized as one of the Best Law Firms in the country and home of Certified Elder Law Attorney and four-time Best-Selling Author Evan H. Farr, creator of the Living Trust Plus® Medicaid Asset Protection Trust, the Living Trust Plus® Veterans Asset Protection Trust, and the Living Trust Plus® Income Retention Trust, as well as the Long-term Care Directive® — all designed to advance the firm’s mission of protecting dignity, quality of life, and financial security for elders and their loved ones.
Evan is one of the leading Elder Law, Medicaid Planning, Veterans Planning, Estate Planning, and Asset Protection attorneys in Virginia, Maryland, and DC, and one of the foremost legal authorities in the country in the fields of Medicaid Asset Protection, Veterans Asset Protection, and related trusts. The Farr Law Firm focuses on all aspects of Elder Law, Elder Care, Estate Planning for people of all ages, Disability and Special Needs Planning, Probate, and Trust and Estate Administration.
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We have five locations to serve you throughout Virginia, Maryland, and DC — call our Virginia Elder Law Fairfax office at 703-691-1888, our Virginia Elder Law Fredericksburg office at 540-479-1435, our Maryland Elder Law Rockville office at 301-519-8041, our Maryland Elder Law Annapolis office at 410-372-4444, or our DC Elder Law office at 202-587-2797 to schedule an appointment. Click here for contact information or directions.
Our firm is dedicated to helping protect seniors and their families by preserving dignity, quality of life, and financial security. Evan is the National Best-Selling Author of four books in the field of Elder Law, all of which provide valuable information and guidance to families facing concerns about elder care, nursing home care and other forms of long-term care, and making critical decisions for themselves or their loved ones:
- Protecting Your Assets from Probate and Long-Term Care: Don’t Let the System Bankrupt You and Your Loved Ones (2nd Edition)
- How to Protect Your Assets From Probate PLUS Lawsuits PLUS Nursing Home Expenses with the Living Trust Plus® (3rd Edition)
- Nursing Home Survival Guide
- Protect & Defend (co-authored by Evan Farr along with other leading attorneys from across the country)
To learn more, click here for all of Evan’s books.
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Using a holistic and often proprietary approach, our firm combines extensive knowledge and experience with a deep understanding of the needs of older adults to help our elderly clients obtain the highest quality elder care at the lowest possible cost. This often involves protecting assets through lawful Medicaid Planning and “smart spend down” strategies so clients can become eligible to have Medicaid and/or Veterans Aid and Attendance benefits help pay for the appropriate level of care — whether home health care, assisted living care, or nursing home care.
Unfortunately, Medicaid eligibility rules are the most complex and confusing maze of legal rules in existence. The United States Supreme Court called the Medicaid laws “an aggravated assault on the English language, resistant to attempts to understand it.” Schweiker v. Gray Panthers, 453 U.S. 34, 43 (1981). The United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, in a case arising out of Virginia, similarly called the Medicaid Act one of the “most completely impenetrable texts within human experience” and described it as “dense reading of the most tortuous kind.” Rehab. Association of Virginia v. Kozlowski, 42 F.3d 1444, 1450 (4th Cir. 1994).
Veterans Aid & Attendance rules are likewise exceedingly complicated and can be treacherous to navigate without a thorough understanding of the applicable rules.
The experienced estate planning attorneys and Medicaid Planning lawyers at the Farr Law Firm provide specialized asset protection planning, retirement planning, estate planning, and in-depth representation in connection with Medicaid Planning and Veterans Aid & Attendance benefits planning. The objective is to help clients avoid unnecessarily spending their entire life savings on long-term care while protecting their future care and well-being and the financial security of their families.
Medicaid planning strategies for families can help preserve assets while maintaining access to appropriate long-term care. Depending on the circumstances, these strategies can include asset protection trusts, exempt assets, permissible transfers, spousal protection strategies, and carefully structured spend-down planning.
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