Michigan Elder Law, Veterans Benefits, Medicaid Planning, Alzheimer's & Dementia Lawyers

Witzke Berry Carter & Wander - Michigan Elder Law Center

2550 South Telegraph Road
Suite 255
Bloomfield Hills, Michigan 48302
USA

(248) 481-4000

(248) 481-4001

www.michiganelderlawcenter.com

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Law Firm Overview

At the Michigan Elder Law Center, our mission is to educate and assist Michigan seniors, Michigan veterans, and their families navigate the aging and long-term care maze. We do this by providing education and outreach to the community on long-term care, aging, elder law, and other issues facing Michigan seniors. Our Oakland County law firm of Witzke Berry Carter & Wander PLLC helps seniors throughout all of Michigan.

As elder law attorneys we assist seniors, veterans and families throughout all of Michigan with their long-term care, Alzheimer legal planning, veterans benefits planning, Medicaid crisis planning, nursing home planning and various other elder law needs including, wills, trusts, health care directives and powers of attorney.

Elder law attorney Christopher J. Berry, Esq. is a VA Accredited attorney and has extensive experience helping veterans and their families through out all of Michigan with their Aid & Attendance VA planning and applications. VA Accredited attorney Berry assists, veterans, and their surviving spouses by planning for eligibility for Veterans Administration Aid & Attendance or related non-service connected pension benefits.

Our elder law, estate planning and veterans resource center is your “one stop shop” for all things elder law. It is designed for our Michigan clients, allied professionals and the senior community at large, containing free materials, education, support and services related to the issues surrounding aging. The Michigan Elder Law Center has been made available for your benefit.

We feel honored and privileged to have the trust of our Michigan families as we assist and serve them through their preparation for and transition through the elder journey. We do this with the utmost professionalism, intimacy, respect and dignity. Our mission at the Michigan Elder Law Center is to build enduring bridges with our clients and their families as they learn about the critical long-term care planning decisions they need to make. We appreciate and look forward to nurturing those relationships with senior care providers and professionals that also serve our families, and have their best interest at heart.

Practice Areas

Additional Practice Areas: Veterans Benefits; Nursing Home Crisis Asset Protection; Legacy Deed; Estate Recovery; Alzheimer’s Planning.

Practice Areas Description

As elder law attorneys we assist seniors, veterans and families throughout all of Michigan with the following matters:

- Medicaid

Applying for Michigan Medicaid can be a confusing process. Unfortunately, there are too many organizations out there offering their assistance, including nursing homes, social workers, insurance salesmen, and financial advisors. All of these other individuals may not have your loved ones best interests at heart. That is why it’s important to work with a qualified Michigan elder law attorney who can help you navigate the Michigan Medicaid process.

- Nursing Home Crisis Asset Protection

When a Michigan loved one or family is facing the daunting cost of a monthly nursing home bill of $5000-$9000, that can put an amazing strain on the family and the family’s life savings. You don’t have to watch your hard earned life savings be eaten before your eyes by the cost of skilling nursing home care. There is another, perfectly legal way. Allow us to guide you through all the confusing and misinformation to a plan that can protect your families life savings.

- Estate Planning

The Michigan Elder Law Center helps seniors, veterans and their families with all of their estate planning needs. The estate planning attorneys of Witzke Berry Carter & Wander PLLC help individuals plan and protect for the people they love. Our estate planning attorneys utilize a variety of different tools to assist people throughout Michigan with their estate planning. Using revocable living trusts, wills, powers of attorney, HIPAA authorizations, legacy deeds, quit claim deeds, warranty deeds, stand alone retirement plan trusts and the other tools available we craft customized estate plans to meet each individual’s or family’s goal.

- Michigan Legacy Deed

The Michigan Legacy deed is a relatively new approach at handling the estate planning and elder law issues involved in handling real property, including your home. The legacy deed is an innovative way that in many respects, we can “have our cake and eat it too” when protecting the home. That’s the purpose of the legacy deed, to protect the home.

- Estate Recovery

Medicaid is the governmental program that uses tax payer money to pay for the health care and long-term care services. The main use of Medicaid in Michigan is paying for the cost of a skilled nursing facility. Theoretically, estate recover is implemented to help return taxpayer money that was used to pay for these services. I say theoretically because of trying to recover assets or place liens on a Medicaid recipient’s assets probably costs the tax payers more than the recovery yields.

- Alzheimer’s Legal Planning

While it is important for every in Michigan to plan for the future, it is especially important for the person diagnosed with Alzheimer’s or dementia to seek counsel from an Alzheimer’s planning lawyer. When a person is diagnosed with dementia, family, friends and loved ones should help the person make take the necessary steps to contact an elder law Alzheimer’s lawyer to help the family begin developing a long-term care legal plan. The sooner the planning begins the more likely it will be that the person with Alzheimer’s or dementia will be able to participate in the legal planning. This legal planning may include making plans for health care and long-term care coverage, making plans for finances and property, and placing legal authority in others to make decisions on behalf of the person with dementia or Alzheimer’s.

- Veterans Benefits

As Michigan elder law attorneys who are accredited by the Veterans Administration, we are committed to helping Veterans get all the benefits they are entitled to and making the qualification process as stress-free as possible. We believe Veterans’ Benefits are an important, and sadly, under-utilized tool to help America’s heroes care for themselves and the people they love.