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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>
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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>New Annuity Rules and Paying For The Nursing Home &#8211; Coastal Senior, August 2009</title>
		<link>http://masonlawpc.com/2010/01/new-annuity-rules-and-paying-for-the-nursing-home-coastal-senior-august-2009/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jan 2010 19:01:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Mason</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Coastal Senior]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medicaid]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Coastal Senior is a monthly periodical covering the South Carolina and Georgia low country.  Bob Mason is its legal columnist. [Note:  The Georgia annuity rules described below are very similar to the North Carolina annuity rules - see discussion of annuities at Basic North Carolina Medicaid Nursing Home Rules] The Georgia Department of Community Health [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What is a Special Needs Trust?</title>
		<link>http://masonlawpc.com/2010/01/what-is-a-special-needs-trust/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jan 2010 01:12:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Mason</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Special Needs Planning]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Special Needs Trust, also referred to as a Supplemental Needs Trust, is a trust specially designed to hold assets on behalf of a disabled individual in a manner that will benefit the individual without jeopardizing SSI, Medicaid or other government benefits. Further, transfers in to a properly designed Special Needs Trust (also referred to as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why You Should Consider Long Term Care Insurance</title>
		<link>http://masonlawpc.com/2010/01/why-you-should-consider-long-term-care-insurance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 23:11:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Mason</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Insurance]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Medicare will only pay for up to 100 days of nursing care following a hospital stay, and there are serious limitations on those benefits. Further, Medicare will not pay for long-term care that involves non-medical help with daily tasks, e.g., bathing, dressing. Also, Medigap policies and regular health insurance do not pay for long-term care that involves [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Living Trusts versus Wills: Which Is Better?</title>
		<link>http://masonlawpc.com/2010/01/living-trusts-versus-wills-which-is-better/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 23:02:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Mason</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Trusts generally]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wills (or Not!)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[living trusts]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[revocable trusts]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Answer:  It Depends A Will is a document signed by a testator that meets the other formalities specified by North Carolina Law needed to pass probate property in the manner specified in the Will. The process of submitting a Will to the clerk of the superior court and proving to the clerk that the Will is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dying Without a Will &#8211; Intestacy</title>
		<link>http://masonlawpc.com/2010/01/dying-without-a-will-intestacy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 22:33:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Mason</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many persons who have accumulated wealth during their lifetime die without a valid will. When this happens, the decedent&#8217;s property passes by intestate succession to the decedent&#8217;s heirs at law according to law. In other words, if you don&#8217;t have a will, the state will make one for you. All fifty states have laws of this sort. The North [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Changing a Will and Codicils</title>
		<link>http://masonlawpc.com/2010/01/changing-a-will-and-codicils/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 22:30:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Mason</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If a will is valid, it is effective until it is changed, revoked, destroyed, or invalidated by the writing of a new will. Changes or additions to an otherwise acceptable will can be most easily accomplished by adding a codicil. A codicil is a document amending the original will, with equally binding effect. Therefore, a codicil must be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pre-Need Funeral Contracts</title>
		<link>http://masonlawpc.com/2010/01/pre-need-funeral-contracts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 22:27:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Mason</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Miscellaneous]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[funeral contracts]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Few Thoughts Many people are interested in making funeral arrangements well in advance of the need. Any paperwork completed ahead of time will help simplify things when death occurs. Taking charge of your own planning insures your wishes are carried out and spares loved ones from the emotionally draining task of doing so later. Preplanning allows you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Total Return Trusts, Unitrusts and Power to Adjust</title>
		<link>http://masonlawpc.com/2010/01/total-return-trusts-unitrusts-and-power-to-adjust/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 22:10:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Mason</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tax Issues]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[principal and income]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Robert A. Mason, CELA Originally published in The Will and the Way, NC Bar Ass’n (3/2003) Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes Turn and face the strange ch-ch-changes Don&#8217;t want to be a richer man Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes Turn and face the strange ch-ch-changes Just gonna have to be a different man Time may change me, but I can&#8217;t trace time David [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Medicare Supplement Policies</title>
		<link>http://masonlawpc.com/2010/01/medicare-supplement-policies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 20:52:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Mason</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Medicare]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Updated October 2011 Medigap insurance supplements Medicare’s benefits, which is why it is also called Medicare supplemental insurance. Both federal and state laws regulate Medigap coverage. A policy must be clearly identified as Medicare supplemental insurance and it must provide specific benefits that help fill the gaps in your Medicare coverage. Other kinds of insurance [...]]]></description>
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