by Ethan Okura | Apr 23, 2017 | Articles, Medicaid and Nursing Home Costs
We have had hundreds of clients over the years who have gone to nursing homes to provide for their care as they aged. Some of them lived full, rich, engaged lives in the nursing home until the very end. Others suffered from severe physical disabilities or dementia...
by Ethan Okura | Mar 6, 2017 | Articles
Spring is in the air! So what does that mean? It’s time for spring cleaning; time to get rid of all the junk that accumulated over the past year; time to deep clean the house and freshen it up. It’s also time to clean up and update that old estate plan! Remember that...
by Ethan Okura | Feb 9, 2017 | Articles
As you may be aware, the United States is one of the most litigious countries in the world. This means more people sue each other in court in the US than almost anywhere else. We have one lawyer for every 252 citizens in the US, as compared to only one lawyer for...
by Ethan Okura | Jan 5, 2017 | Articles
Happy New Year! Here is the 2017 update on important numbers used in Estate Planning and Medicaid Planning in Hawaii. How much money and property can a person have at death without paying estate taxes? At the end of 2012, Congress passed a law making the exemption...
by Ethan Okura | Dec 8, 2016 | Articles
In last month’s article, I wrote about why everyone should have a Will. I didn’t want to bore you with a bunch of technical legal information, but I tried to impress upon you how important it is by sharing stories of how badly things can go wrong when you don’t have a...
by Ethan Okura | Nov 7, 2016 | Articles
How many of you don’t have a Last Will and Testament drawn up? How about your adult children or grandchildren? There are many reasons why people don’t have a Will: Don’t want to think about dying; Fear of cost; Not sure whom to name as beneficiaries or personal...
