Planning Your Estate

My wife and I are planning our estate and we want to make sure that our daughter, who needs fulltime care after her brain injury, is provided for financially. What kinds of things should we be talking about with our attorney?

Posted on BrainLine August 30, 2011. Reviewed March 20, 2018.

About the author: Michael Kaplen, Esq.

Michael V. Kaplen, Esq. is a partner in the New York law firm De Caro & Kaplen, LLP. Mr. Kaplen is a professorial lecturer in law at The George Washington University Law School, where he teaches a course in traumatic brain injury law. Mr. Kaplan serves on the board of directors for the New York State Academy of Trial Lawyers.

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