Our firm does it all; whether you need to protect assets from a nursing home, qualify seniors for Medicaid, establish a simple will or a comprehensive estate plan, prepare a living trust, set up or administrate an estate, pass through probate proceedings, need a referral to a care managers for nursing home and assisted living placement, enact a Power of Attorney, resolve a family dispute, or other concerns, our lawyers can help. In short, there is no part of the legal problems confronting senior citizens and their families that Allan Neef cannot handle.

Too many Michigan seniors don't know the importance of having a good lawyer on their side. As an experienced and knowledgeable elder law attorney, my goal is to help you plan for the future and protect and preserve the lifetime of savings that you or your loved ones have worked so hard to accumulate.

I invite you to explore our web site. In doing so, you will discover how we can help you save you, or your family, up to hundreds of thousands of dollars, through nursing home planning, estate planning or both. In fact, we can help you save this money, even for loved ones already in a nursing home! This is especially important because the average cost of a nursing home in Michigan exceeds $60,000 per year.

Every so often, Congress changes the rules of Medicaid eligibility for nursing home coverage. However, until now we have never seen such drastic changes when it comes to providing benefits to the elderly, disabled, and poor. Michigan changed the Medicaid laws on July 1, 2007 effective retroactively to February 8, 2006. In addition to these drastic changes, Michigan has implemented additional significant changes in April 2007, September 2007, October 2007 and now more changes have been proposed for 2008 as well as Michigan's new Estate Recovery laws. 

My firm can show you how to use the current Medicaid laws to your advantage. Even with the new laws, there is no reason to spend a lifetime of savings paying for a nursing home! Don't believe the many Medicaid Myths that lead people to believe that Medicaid can't help. For example, you don’t have to spend your lifetime of savings to pay for a nursing home. You don’t usually have to wait five years to qualify for Medicaid after making a gift or transfer. You don't have to lose your home. You can protect your assets even if you or your loved one is already in a nursing home.

At our law firm, our professionals work hard to inform our clients of the facts, dispelling the misinformation and myth that surround senior issues.

For many decades, we have been providing exceptional service to the people of Michigan in a wide variety of legal matters. Our areas of specialty are:

• Elder Law: Medicaid Planning, Nursing Homes, Assisted Living, Incapacity Planning, Elder Law Durable Power of Attorneys, Estate Planning, and much more;
• Estate Planning: Wills, Trusts, Conservatorships, Guardianships, Powers of Attorney, Special Needs Planning, Planning for Children with Disabilities, etc.;
• Litigation: Commercial Litigation, Probate Litigation such as Estate Disputes, Contested Guardianships and Conservatorships, Personal Injury, Divorce and Family Law, and more;
• Estate Administration and Probate: Descendent Estates, Protective Orders, Trust Administration, Contested Wills (Will Disputes), Contested Guardianships and Conservatorships, etc.;
• Real Estate Law: Closings, Construction and Development, Purchases and Sales, Leases, etc.