Supplemental Needs Trusts — Some FAQ
© 2006, 2008, 2010, 2017, 2024 Jeffrey H. Minde, Esq. ● WHY USE A SUPPLEMENTAL NEEDS TRUST? To Preserve Governmental Benefits And Protect Assets… A Supplemental Needs Trust (sometimes called a Special Needs Trust) is a specialized legal document designed to benefit an individual who has a disability. A Supplemental Needs Trust is most often […]
Serving Special Needs Kids
By Pamela Savage Forbat Appeared in Registered Representative, September 2001 They’re typical new clients: A couple approaching middle age, 2.4 kids, a nice home and comfortable income looking to plan for a financially secure future. But one of their children is disabled. You could craft a dazzling retirement and estate plan, yet actually jeopardize the […]
The Graying of Disabled America
© 2000by Jeffrey H. Minde, C.S.W.and Andrea R. Friedman, M.Ed. INTRODUCTION For the first time in human experience persons with developmental disabilities are living longer. The average life span of an individual with Down Syndrome has increased from 9 years in the 1920s to 65 years or greater as of the end of the 1990s. […]
Mr. Minde’s Resume
Jeffrey H. Minde, Esq Attorney and Counselor At Law Special Needs Estate Planning ● Expert Witness Services in Disabilities EDUCATION: University of Miami School of Law Juris Doctor awarded 1993 University College London (Bentham Faculty of Laws) Comparative Legal Studies Program completed 1992 Adelphi University School of Social Work Master of Social Work (Social Policy and Planning) awarded […]
In memory of…
Jack Minde November 28, 1928 – March 15, 2010 I love my father. That’s the first, most important thing. Thank you all so much for your concern and your compassion. Thanks don’t suffice to express the sense of comfort my family and I feel in this terrible time, mourning the loss of my father Jack […]