Avoid the devastating costs of a nursing home or other long term care crisis by pre-planning for Medicaid and veterans benefits. Provide for yourself and members of your family who have special needs through special needs trust planning and social security benefits. Give the gift of peace of mind to your family by ensuring that your estate plan provides for who you want, when you want, and how you want, in the most tax efficient manner possible.
Avoid unnecessary costs and delays while wrapping up your family's final affairs during the probate and estate distribution process. Protect your business and family from attacks by creditors, predators and bankruptcy through planning with limited liability entities, properly drafted contracts, and asset protection trust strategies.
Avoid unnecessary costs and delays while wrapping up your family's final affairs during the probate and estate distribution process. Protect your business and family from attacks by creditors, predators and bankruptcy through planning with limited liability entities, properly drafted contracts, and asset protection trust strategies.
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Quinn Estate & Elder Law has the experience, integrity and dedication to best represent your interests. We enjoy practicing law. We enjoy fighting for our clients. For forty years, we've provided effective counsel to clients who want personal attention as well as legal expertise. Our firm was founded by Gregory F. Quinn and Paul E. Ground in 1975 and was named Quinn & Ground.
Larissa joined the firm in 2013 and has over 8 years of experience in the legal field. Her roles with the firm are Operations Manager, Paralegal and Benefits Application Coordinator. As Operations Manager she is responsible for case file management, computer and communications systems, and to ensure the office runs smoothly.
Brian was born in the St. Louis area and has lived throughout the St. Louis area all of his life. He lives here with his wife, his children, and his dogs Callie and Sadie. Brian is a graduate of the University of Missouri at Columbia and the St. Louis University School of Law.
Brian serves individual and business clients in a variety of legal matters, especially in the areas of estate planning, asset protection planning, Medicaid planning, VA benefits, and elder law.He has assisted in the prosecution of hundreds of claims for government benefits, including veterans pension and Medicaid claims, on behalf of his clients.
Brian serves individual and business clients in a variety of legal matters, especially in the areas of estate planning, asset protection planning, Medicaid planning, VA benefits, and elder law.He has assisted in the prosecution of hundreds of claims for government benefits, including veterans pension and Medicaid claims, on behalf of his clients.
Dementia and Estate Planning: Brian Quinn talks about estate planning and some of the challenges related to dementia. If documents have not been completed before the onset of Alzheimer's, it might be more difficult to get them done. The question of testamentary capacity becomes important. Planning and care options become very limited when an individual cannot readily identify family members and make good decisions.
Elder law is the process of educating and presenting planning options that apply to a senior's unique problems. Elder law planning can involve qualifying a client for government benefits to help them pay for long term care, such as benefits from the Department of Veterans Affairs ("VA") to help offset some of the costs of care, or arranging one's affairs so that Medicaid can help pay for a nursing home stay.
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Sharon Sutter Smart
Feb 14, 2019
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Angela Sue Monko
Nov 06, 2014
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Stephen Banton, partner with Quinn & Banton, completed a trust for my family a couple of years ago as well as for my mom. We have a special needs child, which spurred us on to do it. The thing to keep in mind is that when your loved ones die, they can leave behind a lot of complex scenarios that are a breeding ground for family disputes and drama.… Further, if an estate gets bogged down in probate, attorney fees can escalate in the thousands, not to mention that settling money issues is drastically delayed. I figured why not pay a minimal fee to get all of this settled now to prevent
