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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>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2012 22:29:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Mason</dc:creator>
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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>Naming A Trust As IRA Beneficiary: Great Idea? Bad Idea?</title>
		<link>http://masonlawpc.com/2011/10/naming-a-trust-as-ira-beneficiary-great-idea-bad-idea/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Oct 2011 21:34:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Mason</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Medicaid]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Tax Issues]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to conventional wisdom you should always name your spouse as beneficiary of an IRA. Let’s smash some traditional pumpkins (I am writing this in October, after all). Read on to understand why it might be a great idea to name a trust as the beneficiary of an IRA and what some of the trade-offs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sole Benefit Trusts and Special Needs Trusts</title>
		<link>http://masonlawpc.com/2011/09/sole-benefit-trusts-and-special-needs-trusts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Sep 2011 22:10:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Mason</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Medicaid]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Sole Benefit Trust is an often neglected yet important type of Special Needs Trust that can be useful in planning for certain categories of individuals with disabilities. For example, a “Sole Benefit Trust” can be a useful solution for a disabled grantor who wishes to protect funds intended for a loved one with disabilities [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Late Second Marriage?</title>
		<link>http://masonlawpc.com/2011/08/late-second-marriage/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Aug 2011 17:21:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Mason</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Medicaid]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Nursing Homes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wills (or Not!)]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tying the Knot? Or Just Moving In? A Famous Late Second Marriage! Considering a second marriage? For terribly unromantic reasons (I guess I’m the anti-cupid . . . darn lawyer!) you should plan carefully – very carefully – before going into a later-in-life second marriage. The religious prescription not to enter a marriage “unadvisedly or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>10 Great Ways to Cause an Elder Law Train Wreck</title>
		<link>http://masonlawpc.com/2011/08/10-ways-to-cause-an-elder-law-train-wreck/</link>
		<comments>http://masonlawpc.com/2011/08/10-ways-to-cause-an-elder-law-train-wreck/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2011 21:38:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Mason</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As an elder law and special needs attorney I get a track-side seat for a pile of planning train wrecks: Here are the best ones . . . This is a column for the contrarians among us who will insist, against mounds of advice, on creating maximum legal havoc. Here are ten great ways to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Trust For A Disabled Person To Setup &#8211; Coastal Senior, June 2009</title>
		<link>http://masonlawpc.com/2010/01/a-trust-for-a-disabled-person-to-setup-coastal-senior-june-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://masonlawpc.com/2010/01/a-trust-for-a-disabled-person-to-setup-coastal-senior-june-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jan 2010 18:04:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Mason</dc:creator>
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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. Last month Legal Lines looked at the best way to leave assets to a disabled child. In that case, someone other than the disabled child is setting up a trust and funding it with assets [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Great Trust For A Disabled Child &#8211; Coastal Senior, May 2009</title>
		<link>http://masonlawpc.com/2010/01/a-great-trust-for-a-disabled-child-coastal-senior-may-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://masonlawpc.com/2010/01/a-great-trust-for-a-disabled-child-coastal-senior-may-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jan 2010 18:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Mason</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Special Needs Planning]]></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. An old rule says “Never say never”. Let’s break that rule. The parents of a disabled child should never disinherit that child simply because she is disabled. Never. There is a better way. Parents of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Disability Trusts and Medicaid &#8211; Coastal Senior, June 2007 &#8211;</title>
		<link>http://masonlawpc.com/2010/01/coastal-senior-june-2007-disability-trusts-and-medicaid/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jan 2010 01:03:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Mason</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Coastal Senior is a monthly periodical published in Savannah, Georgia and circulated throughout the Georgia and South Carolina low country. Bob Mason is its legal columnist. You may have heard that Congress has imposed drastic restrictions on long term care assistance under Medicaid. Don’t lose hope. Plenty of options remain for married couples, and many [...]]]></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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