Written by nationally-known elder law practitioner, Robert Fleming, the Elder Law Answer Book gathers the most current legal, regulatory and practice guidelines from the core topics of elder law such as: long-term care, estate planning, retirement planning, healthcare decision making, and rights of the elderly -- and presents this information in a thoroughly integrated, easy-access reference. Chapter highlights include: Estate Planning and the elderly, which provides a discussion of estate and gift tax basics, key relationships between retirement planning and estate planning and the most commonly used approaches to ease client's tax burdens and preserve their wealth, Retirement Planning which compares and contrasts qualified and non-qualified plans, as well as the complex rules that govern what, when and how benefits are paid through IRAs, as well as who can contribute, how much can be contributed on a deferred tax basis and the rules and tax consequences of distributions from these plans, Medicaid Benefits which discuss Medicaid eligibility requirements including income and resource eligibility, spending down assets, asset transfer s.