ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Social Security will now start with-holding back child support from payment made to nursing home. He has no income and no way to pay the difference. ATTORNEY ANSWER: I am going to assume from your question that the nursing home resident is receiving Mediciad benefits. For patients who are on Medicaid in the nursing home, the nursing home is paid partially by the resident through the resident’s income and Medicaid pays the balance. The

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: My mom died and my brother was the “executor” of the estate and his name was on the deed of her main house.  Now there was no will but all of her assets and bills were taken care of by my brother. This is in Massachusetts, but she had a vacation home in NH. I was told we would have put that home through a separate probate or wait a certain number of years

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: I am in a dispute over a house between myself and my mother.  We both own the house we need to settle in court.  How can we get a hearing and how long does it take to get one? ATTORNEY ANSWER: First, I do not know that Probate Court is the appropriate venue for your hearing. If all parties who own the property are alive, Land Court may be the correct forum.   Secondly, a

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: My mother recently passed and we don’t know for sure if she had a will. We know that she always said that she had but now our dad is saying that she didn’t.  He is taking control over all of her possessions saying that he can do what he wants. I’ve been living in one of the houses for 22 years and have been paying the taxes but the receipts were in my mother

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: I just needed my will updated so that my daughter instead of brother in law is the executor of the will. What is a reasonable fee? ATTORNEY ANSWER: Each attorney sets his own fee schedule and some attorneys do not charge for an initial meeting. Also, attorney fees vary according to the attorney’s experience as well as the location of the attorney within the state.   Usually the attorney who originally drafted the documents charges