Resources—Probate, Estate, and Elder Law

Estate Planning, Trust and Probate Law Section of the State Bar

http://www.calbar.org/
epsection/index.htm

Home page.

ABA section of Real Property, Probate, and Trust Law

http://www.abanet.org/rppt/
home.html

Home page.

Dennis J. Toman Estate Planning Links Website

http://www.estateplanning
links.com/

Collection of links on estate planning, elder care, and tax.

ElderWeb

http://www.elderweb.com/

This is probably the Internet’s most comprehensive site on elder care. It has thousands of links to elder care sites and resources on the Internet.

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS)

http://www.dhhs.gov/

Home page containing general department information, including news and press releases, list of agencies, and consumer information.

Administration on Aging (DHHS)

http://www.dhhs.gov/aging/

Home page containing information for consumers and those who provide services to the elderly; includes state long-term care profiles, directories of state agencies on aging and state long-term care ombudsman programs, statistical information on older persons, a guide to choosing a nursing home, and links to retirement and financial planning resources.

Social Security Administration (SSA)

http://www.ssa.gov

Home page containing an alphabetical index of Social Security rulings updated through 1996 and information about SSA benefit programs, including cost-of-living adjustment and wage-indexed amounts. Also provides SSA forms, including requests for hearings; SSA legislative information; and reports on the status of the Social Security and Medicare programs.

Department of Veterans Affairs

http://www.va.gov/

Home page containing information on benefits, downloadable forms for use with Adobe Acrobat Reader, a link to the Persian Gulf Veterans Illness Home Page, statistical information about veterans, and other department information.

Tax Analysts

http://www.taxanalysts.com

Website of Tax Analysts, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide forums for tax policy debate.

National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys, Inc.

http://www.naela.org/

Home page contains large collection of elder law links at http://www.naela.org/naela/
hotlinks.htm.

Roth IRA (Brentmark Software, Inc.)

http://www.rothira.com/

This site is designed to provide technical and planning information to lawyers and clients on Roth IRAs. The site contains extensive links to Roth IRA resources.

FindLaw’s Estate, Probate, and Trust pages

http://www.findlaw.com/01topics/
31probate/index.html

Site contains numerous links to estate planning, probate, and trust resources on the Internet.

LII’s Estate Planning pages

http://www.law.cornell.edu/
topics/estate_planning.html

Site contains primary and secondary estate planning resources.

LII’s Estate and Trusts pages

http://www.law.cornell.edu/
topics/estates_trusts.html

Site contains primary and secondary estates and trusts resources.

Estate Planner’s Alert (RIA)

http://ria.thomson.com/
news/weekly.asp
#estate

Weekly article from current issue of Estate Planner’s Alert.

Senior Law (Goldfarb Abrandt Salzman & Kutzin)

http://www.seniorlaw.com/

Home page for Elder Law resource with articles and links.

CA Law Net’s Elder Law Pages (Attorney William O. Davis)

http://www.calawnet.com/
elder.html

Many useful Elder and Health law related legal research links.

Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (DHHS)

http://www.cms.hhs.gov

CMS’s homepage with information on Medicare and Medicaid programs.

Estate Planning Memoranda from Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro

http://www.pmstax.com/
estate/index.html

Good summaries of basic concepts: Gifts (in general; to minors), generation-skipping transfer tax, living trust, personal residence grantor retained income trust, estate planning for non-citizens.

Health Law Resource

http://www.netreach.net/
~wmanning/

Developed and maintained by Pennsylvania attorney William L. Manning, the Health Law Resource contains a valuable collection of links on the regulatory and transactional aspects of health care law practice.