When You are Concerned About Financially Protecting Minors and Disabled Persons
Contact The DiCello Firm
Clients often approach The DiCello Firm for assistance in protecting assets of minors and disabled persons through special needs trusts. Circumstances vary, but the fundamental issue is the same in each case: protecting funds that are intended to benefit minors or disabled adults.
- Parents may wish to discuss the establishment of special needs trusts and conservation trusts.
- Children, whether minors or disabled adults, may be beneficiaries of wrongful death proceeds after a fatal accident involving their parents.
- Minors or disabled persons may be named as recipients of proceeds from a personal injury claim to be paid out as a structured settlement.
- Minor children or disabled adult children who are heirs or beneficiaries of a will need financial protection in conjunction with administration of the estate.
Our law firm is an excellent resource for Ohioans wishing to protect the finances of minors and disabled individuals through special needs trusts.
Where there is recovery in a personal injury claim on behalf of minor children or disabled adults who are our clients, we recommend what we believe to be the most appropriate vehicle to preserve funds intended for them, to last a lifetime.
The probate court is charged with the responsibility of ensuring that management of funds intended for minors and disabled persons are handled in the best interests of these vulnerable beneficiaries.
Schedule a consultation with an experienced attorney to discuss your particular needs with regard to financial security for minors or disabled adults. Call or e-mail the law firm to discuss the role of probate court in approving how money will be invested and accounted for. Talk to an estate planning lawyer in Mentor (serving the Cleveland metro area) to discuss a special needs trust, perhaps the most promising means of protecting funds for your minor child or disabled family member after a personal injury settlement.
