Elder Law and Life Care Planning Law

Law firm is experienced with planning for seniors, incapacitated adults, and their families. Betsy Sue Scott can assist you and your family with life care and estate planning legal needs, including:

Strategies for Elder Care and incapacitated adults: Aging in place, residential and assisted living planning, guardianships, conservatorships, benefits eligibility, health care needs, long term care and other insurance issues;

Independence and Control over Life Choices: Living wills, advance medical directives, durable powers of attorney (medical and financial);

Estate Planning: Wills, trusts, special needs trusts, irrevocable life insurance trusts;

Probate: Probate of wills, administration of estates trust administration, estate and trust accountings; and

Fiduciary Challenges: Abuse of fiduciary trust, financial misuse of assets by fiduciary; fiduciary accounting; communication difficulties with fiduciaries, agents and attorneys-in-fact; and uncontested and contested guardianships.
 
Ms. Scott has over 40 years of legal experience and is licensed to practice in Virginia, New York, the District of Columbia, and Pennsylvania.