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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Hi Listmates-</span><div style="word-break: break-word;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Spouse A has severe medical issues and has transferred all assets to Spouse B. B has a Will which creates a Special Needs Trust for A, if B predeceases A. Assuming B predeceases A but after A has begun receiving long term Medicaid care, can the State force A to elect to take against B’s Will and at least partly defeat the transfer of B’s assets to the special needs trust and hence make them available to the state for recoupment?</span><div style="word-break: break-word;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Thanks for your thoughts.</span></div><div style="word-break: break-word;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br style="word-break: break-word;"></span></div><div style="word-break: break-word;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom</span></div><div style="word-break: break-word;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Law Office of Thomas J.Fiscus</span></div><div style="word-break: break-word;"><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://0/0" dir="ltr" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="address" x-apple-data-detectors-result="0/0" style="word-break: break-word; text-decoration: underline; text-decoration-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.258824); caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">P.O. Box 1167</a></div><div style="word-break: break-word;"><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://0/0" dir="ltr" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="address" x-apple-data-detectors-result="0/0" style="word-break: break-word; text-decoration: underline; text-decoration-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.258824); caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Eastsound, WA 98245</a></div><div style="word-break: break-word;"><a href="tel:360-376-3988" dir="ltr" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="telephone" x-apple-data-detectors-result="0/1" style="word-break: break-word; text-decoration-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.258824); caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">360-376-3988</a></div></div><br><br><a href="https://overview.mail.yahoo.com/?.src=iOS">Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone</a><br>
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