Estate Planning & Elder Law Blog

No family is perfect. Families will fight, not speak to each other for extended periods, or in some extreme cases, face each other in court. 

This is especially true as parents advance in age and as they become more dependent on their children for assistance, old conflicts can come back to the forefront, leading to quarrels among siblings as well as between parents and their children.

Often these disputes begin not out of greed but for a variety of other reasons:

• Internal difficulty in coping with a parent in decline
• Conflicts, power struggles and rivalries that are dug up from the past
• Disparities and inequities in the burden of care
• Disagreements in both medical decisions and in living arrangements
• Financial concerns over the care of a parent

I’m sure you’ve spent a wonderful vacation at a unique and dreamy location and thought to yourself, “I wonder what it would be like to live here?” If you answered that question by investigating the details of purchasing a vacation home in that perfect spot, it would be wise to consult with an attorney early in the process to avoid getting into hot water later on.