Elder Law Overview

Pennsylvania and New Jersey Elder Law Attorney

At Joseph A. Gembala III, Esq. & Associates in Philadelphia, we advise and represent individuals and families about the full range of elder law issues, from basic estate planning to finding satisfactory alternatives to guardianship or long-term nursing home care. If you or an elderly parent needs advice about managing assets and protecting the quality of life in old age, contact elder law attorney Joseph Gembala.

At our law firm, we go beyond the essentials of estate planning and probate law to make sure that your arrangements for elder care are matched to your family's needs, make efficient use of your resources, and are properly drafted to avoid unintended consequences. We serve clients in eastern Pennsylvania and southern New Jersey to achieve such objectives as the following:

• Protecting Medicaid eligibility
• Finding and securing the resources necessary for acceptable alternatives to nursing homes, such as home assistance or health care
• Avoiding the expense and difficulty of guardianship proceedings
• Planning against exposure to Pennsylvania and New Jersey inheritance taxes
• In proper cases, using living trusts, life insurance trusts, and other estate planning tools to bypass probate

Our law firm has come to recognize life care planning for elders as an essential component of a broader estate planning strategy that puts quality of life and independent living issues on an equal footing with wealth preservation, managing tax exposure, and avoiding probate.

Whether you need to develop an estate plan from the ground up, or need to review an existing set of instruments to make sure that they continue to reflect your circumstances and needs, we can help you. For the advice of an experienced elder care lawyer, contact Joseph A. Gembala III, Esq. & Associates in Philadelphia.