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Home » Estate Planning » How an Overland Park Estate Planning Attorney Helps If You’ve Been Diagnosed With a Serious Illness

How an Overland Park Estate Planning Attorney Helps If You’ve Been Diagnosed With a Serious Illness

July 17, 2018 by Larry Parman, Attorney at Law

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An Overland Park estate planning attorney can provide personalized help when you and your family need to address difficult situations. We help you make the tough decisions and effectively use the legal tools available to ensure you and your loved ones receive the protections you need in case of serious illness, injury, or death. 

It is important to talk with an Overland Park estate planning attorney while you are still young and healthy because you never know when tragedy may strike.  You want to be prepared should something go wrong. If you have already received a diagnosis of a serious illness, it is especially imperative to immediately seek the legal help you need.

If you have received a medical diagnosis that has you concerned about your future, reach out to the compassionate and knowledgeable legal team at Parman & Easterday for help in ensuring you have your affairs in order and the documents in place you will need to maintain your autonomy and protect your loved ones.

How an Overland Park Estate Planning Attorney Helps if You’ve Been Diagnosed with a Serious Illness

Once you have been diagnosed with a serious illness, you need to ensure you have control over your medical care. You should protect your assets should you need to move into a nursing home.  And you want to have your legacy plan in place to control what happens after you are gone to ensure your family’s needs are met.

Advanced directives are important tools to have if you are diagnosed with a serious illness. You want to decide whether extraordinary measures will be used to keep you alive or whether you want palliative care and hospice instead of prolonging your life. When you use your living will to make these decisions, you remain in control of your future even if you are unable to speak for yourself when these difficult decisions need to be made. They can help spare your loved ones from having to make these difficult decisions on your behalf.

With advanced directives, you name the healthcare proxy who will make decisions for you if you are not able to make your own choices and decisions on the medical issues in question have not been made in advance. By choosing a healthcare proxy you can count on, you spare your family from disputes about the kinds of care you should receive. You want to choose someone you know will make the right decisions.

In addition to advanced directives, a Medicaid plan will help protect your assets so you don’t end up spending all your money on costly nursing home care. And a legacy plan will include such things as a last will and testament, trust, pay-on-death accounts, and other tools that allow you to transfer assets quickly and easily to your beneficiaries. You can reduce estate tax and otherwise ensure your loved ones receive more of your assets and as quickly as possible after you are gone.

Getting Help from an Overland Park Estate Planning Attorney

An Overland Park estate planning attorney at Parman & Easterday will make planning as easy as possible for you and your loved ones, even after a difficult medical diagnosis . We understand how difficult it is to deal with the death of close family members and will work with you to ensure you and your loved ones receive the help and support you need to make the tough decisions and the future easier. From help with advanced directives to assistance with your legacy plans, we can offer you the advice you need to move forward.

To find out more about how an Overland Park estate planning lawyer can help you, join us for a free seminar. You can also call today at (405) 843-6100 or contact us online at any time to get personalized advice for your situation.

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Larry Parman, Attorney at Law
Larry Parman, Attorney at Law
Founder and Owner at Parman & Easterday
After helping his own family deal with a lengthy probate and the IRS following his father’s untimely death in a farm accident, Larry Parman made a decision to help families create effective estate plans designed to reduce taxes, minimize legal interference with the transfer of assets to one’s heirs, and protect his clients’ assets from predators and creditors.
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