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A New Jersey appeals court overturned the dismissal of a lawsuit alleging that the defendants improperly created a supplemental needs trust, allowing the defendants limited access to the plaintiff’s psychotherapy records in order to rebut her claim that the trust’s settlor did not think she needed a trust. Laubach v. Quinn (N.J. Super. Ct. App. [...]

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(I acknowledge with appreciation the Academy of Special Needs Planners website and the resources available to members which I used to compile the following list of links)
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Social Security Administration’s Main Page: Social Security Online - The Official Website of the U.S. Social Security Administration

Social Security Administration’s “Our Program Rules” compilation of links to the [...]

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For a number of years now, elder law attorneys in New Jersey have often achieved success in court applications seeking to reform a support trust established under the will of the parents or relatives of a disabled adult child so that the amended support trust met the statutory requirements of a special needs trust (“SNT”). [...]

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Parents raising children with special needs face significant extra costs for therapies, rehabilitation and specialty medical care, among other costs. A new study found that families with similar demographics and nature of their children’s special needs have different out-of-pocket health expenditures depending on the state in which they live.
The study found that wealthier states tend [...]

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A federal district court in Illinois denied the state Medicaid agency’s motion for summary judgment in a case testing whether a man with severe disabilities can receive care at home under the state’s Medicaid waiver program rather than in a nursing home. Grooms v. Marah (N.D.Ill., No 06 C 2211, May [...]

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