Your Property
For someone who dies owning less than $30,000 of personal property, their next of kin can pay a $1.00 filing fee to surrogate court to administer the estate.
Small Estate
Any activity that is done deliberately in order to take care of our mental, emotional, and physical health.
Self-Care
An estate planning tool used by individuals and families as a way to pass on property while generally avoiding probate.
Trust
A written statement of a person's wishes regarding medical treatment, often including a living will, made to ensure those wishes are carried out should the person be unable to communicate them to a doctor.
Advanced Directives
A health care program that assists low-income families or individuals in paying for doctor visits, hospital stays, long-term medical, nursing home costs and more.
Medicaid
A legal document by which a person expresses their wishes as to how their property is to be distributed at death. This document names a still-living person as the executor, and that person is responsible for administering the estate.
Last Will and Testament
228-7910
Phone number for Aimee Churchill, Esq. who provides free legal services for the Office for the Aging
Allows homeowners age 62 and over to borrow against a portion of their home’s equity to supplement their income while keeping the title to their home.
Reverse Mortgage
A legal document in which a person can appoint someone to make decisions about medical treatment in the event that he or she is no longer mentally competent or able to communicate.
Health Care Proxy
A bank account held by more than one person, each individual having the right to deposit and withdraw funds.
Joint Account
A deed conveying your interest in your home to someone else while retaining the right to live there.
Life Estate
Breathe deeply and mindfully. Taking slow, deep breaths quickly shifts your body out of stress mode and allows you to relax, and gives you something to concrete to focus on.
The fastest way to relieve crisis anxiety caused by caregiver stress
A legal process, utilized when a person can no longer make or communicate safe or sound decisions about his/her person and/or property or has become susceptible to fraud or undue influence.
Guardianship
A written statement that dictates health wishes in case someone becomes incapacitated, terminally ill, or is unable to communicate his or her wishes.
Living Will
A document that legally enables a person to appoint a trusted relative or friend to handle specific health or legal and financial responsibilities on their behalf.
Power of Attorney (POA)
Dying without a Will so assets are distributed according to State law.
Intestate
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Services found at the Schuyler County Office for the Aging
Per-planned and per-paid funeral arrangements that cannot be changed, reversed, or dissolved for any reason.
Irrevocable Burial Trust
An order that allows you to choose whether or not you want CPR in an emergency. It is specific about CPR. It does not have instructions for other treatments, such as pain medicine, other medications, or nutrition. The doctor writes this order only after talking about it with the patient (if possible), the proxy, or the patient's family.
Do-not-resuscitate (DNR) order
A tax levied on the net value of the estate of a deceased person before distribution to the heirs.
Estate Tax
Legal process for distributing your property after you die.
Probate
An excellent way to relieve tension, boost mood, and improve both physical and mental health. It helps you burn off nervous energy, do something that’s just for you, focus on something positive and can even improve sleep.
Regular exercise - you don’t even have to spend hours at the gym to benefit, even a 5 minute workout will do a lot of good. See handout in the your blue folder.
Allows a patient’s family member or close friend to make health care decisions for a patient who is in a hospital or nursing home, if the patient lacks decisional capacity and did not leave prior instructions or sign a health care proxy.
New York’s Family Health Care Decisions Act (FHCDA)(Chapter 8 of the Laws of 2010)
Modification to a power of attorney that allows the agent to give gifts. Without this, the agent under a power of attorney is only allowed to give gifts totaling $500 for the year for personal and family maintenance.
Statutory Gifts Rider (Part of the Power of Attorney)
$5,490,000
Federal Estate Tax Exemption