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		<title>Life Estates In 5 Minutes</title>
		<link>http://masonlawpc.com/2012/05/life-estates-in-5-minutes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 18:31:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Mason</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Medicaid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nursing Homes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Georgia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lady Bird deeds]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Understanding life estates may be essential if protecting the home (or other real property) is an important goal. Getting the concept down, however, can be a bit confusing. Confusion be gone! Read on! Blame the English for our confusing real property law. I am convinced that the concepts involved in this article were invented in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can You Dodge These Looming Threats?</title>
		<link>http://masonlawpc.com/2012/04/can-you-dodge-these-looming-threats/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 14:49:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Mason</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Medicaid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medicare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[estate planning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medicaid Planning]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[You have that uneasy feeling that you ought to be doing something . . . just not sure what. Perhaps Mom or Dad has been exhibiting some troubling health symptoms. As the oldest/only/closest child you know that it will be up to you to come up with a solution. You’ve also been reading the news. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can You Use These Tax Rules To Deduct Assisted Living Costs?</title>
		<link>http://masonlawpc.com/2012/03/can-you-use-these-tax-rules-to-deduct-assisted-living-costs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2012 23:25:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Mason</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Nursing Homes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tax Issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Assisted living]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tax deductions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Mom is in an assisted living facility.  Mom and Dad both receive Social Security (total is about $20,000).  Dad receives a federal retirement system pension of $35,000. Because the assisted living facility costs about $3,800 monthly ($45,600 annually) and they have other unreimbursed medical expenses (mostly drugs) of $3,000, Dad has liquidated half of a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Much Can You Earn Without Paying Taxes On Social Security?</title>
		<link>http://masonlawpc.com/2012/03/how-much-can-you-earn-without-paying-taxes-on-social-security/</link>
		<comments>http://masonlawpc.com/2012/03/how-much-can-you-earn-without-paying-taxes-on-social-security/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2012 23:16:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Mason</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tax Issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[You now realize Mom has to file a tax return because her gross income exceeds $10,950.  If ½ her Social Security benefits PLUS her income from all other sources is LESS than $25,000 (call it her “Combined Income”), but her non-Social Security income from all sources is more than $10,950, then she will have to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Could These Facts Help You Avoid Filing A Tax Return?</title>
		<link>http://masonlawpc.com/2012/03/could-these-facts-help-you-avoid-filing-a-tax-return/</link>
		<comments>http://masonlawpc.com/2012/03/could-these-facts-help-you-avoid-filing-a-tax-return/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2012 23:06:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Mason</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Social Security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tax Issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Filing requirements]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tax returns]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Mom (who is 70) is on Social Security and worked part time at Burt’s FastBurgers to earn a little extra and socialize a bit more than she might otherwise be able to (Dad died a few years ago and she likes to get out). Of course, sometime in January she got a W-2 from Burt’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Should Special Needs Trust Beneficiaries Eat Their Pets?</title>
		<link>http://masonlawpc.com/2012/02/should-special-needs-trust-beneficiaries-eat-their-pets/</link>
		<comments>http://masonlawpc.com/2012/02/should-special-needs-trust-beneficiaries-eat-their-pets/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2012 22:29:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Mason</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Special Needs Planning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[In-kind Support and Maintenance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ISM]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medicaid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SNTs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[special needs trusts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SSI]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recent Question: Bob, is it OK for the trustee of a special needs trust to purchase a $2,000 pure bred spaniel for the trust beneficiary, Edwina? Recent Answer: Only if Edwina is not planning on eating the dog. I’ll explain. First, you’ll need to understand the SSI income rules and what In Kind Support and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are MSAs Modifiable?</title>
		<link>http://masonlawpc.com/2012/01/are-msas-modifiable/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 22:14:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Mason</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Medicare Secondary Payer]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Originally published in Course &#38; Scope (January 2012) Newsletter of the Workers&#8217; Compensation Section of the North Carolina Bar Association Your new client Ralph Kramden, 66, comes to you seeking help. He has a $100,000 Medicare Set-aside Arrangement established after a minor 2005 bus accident at work. The MSA includes approximately $60,000 for a spinal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Keep Up-to-date On Medications</title>
		<link>http://masonlawpc.com/2012/01/keep-up-to-date-on-medications/</link>
		<comments>http://masonlawpc.com/2012/01/keep-up-to-date-on-medications/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 21:53:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Mason</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Guest Columns]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Guest Columnist . . . Patricia A. Shevlin, MD At the beginning of every year, most of us try to get organized, make a few resolutions about what we could do better and start new prescription drug plans. One area that is frequently neglected is the medication list.  In an effort to cut down on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Put Some Power in Your Power of Attorney!</title>
		<link>http://masonlawpc.com/2012/01/put-some-power-in-your-power-of-attorney/</link>
		<comments>http://masonlawpc.com/2012/01/put-some-power-in-your-power-of-attorney/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 21:42:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Mason</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Banking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medicaid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Powers of Attorney]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://masonlawpc.com/?p=1317</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A &#8220;Power&#8221; of Attorney Does your power of attorney have all the muscle that it needs? A flabby, wimpy power of attorney can be dangerous because it may lull you into a false sense of security and leave you susceptible to getting smacked when you thought you were protected. Often, one of the first documents [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Other Power of Attorney:  Health Care Powers of Attorney</title>
		<link>http://masonlawpc.com/2012/01/the-other-power-of-attorney-health-care-powers-of-attorney/</link>
		<comments>http://masonlawpc.com/2012/01/the-other-power-of-attorney-health-care-powers-of-attorney/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 21:40:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Mason</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Advance Directives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Advance Directive]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health Care Power of Attorney]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[living will]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Do not confuse health care powers of attorney with general powers of attorney, financial powers of attorney or durable powers of attorney (by the way, general, financial, and durable are all words to describe essentially the same type of document). As I explain to clients, general, durable or financial powers of attorney are used to [...]]]></description>
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