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Medicaid Estate Recovery Rules by State
How Medicaid estate recovery works after death: what is recovered, who is exempt, and how the rules differ by state. Pick your state for the details.
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Medicaid Look-Back Period Rules
How the 60-month Medicaid look-back works: when the clock starts, how the penalty is calculated, and which transfers are exempt under federal law.
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Are Online Wills Legal? Every State’s Answer
Yes: a will prepared online is legal in every state once you sign it under state law. See each state’s witness, notary, handwritten, and electronic-will rules.
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Best Online Will Maker: We Scored 5 of Them
We scored five online will makers on seven criteria. The free one took the top total, our paying partner builds the most complete plan, and every pick lists its drawbacks.
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Estate Planning Basics: What an Estate Plan Should Include
Learn how wills, trusts, powers of attorney, healthcare directives and beneficiary designations work together.
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Trust & Will Review: What $199 Actually Buys
Our Trust & Will review scores it 25 of 35: the strongest document bundles we tested, held back by a $49/yr edit membership and discretionary refund terms.
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Nevada Community Property: Who Owns What When a Spouse Dies
Nevada spouses each own half of the community property. NRS 123.250 gives the survivor their half outright, plus the decedent's half if there is no will.
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New Mexico Community Property: Who Owns What When a Spouse Dies
New Mexico spouses each own half the community property. NMSA 45-2-807 gives the survivor their half, and intestacy sends the decedent's half to the spouse too.
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Wisconsin Marital Property: Community Property by Another Name
Wisconsin marital property is community property. Wis. Stat. 861.01 keeps the survivor's half out of probate; the decedent's half passes by will.
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Advance Directive: Living Wills, Proxies, and DNRs
An advance directive puts your health care wishes in writing. How a living will, health care proxy, and DNR differ, and how to make one in your state.
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