McAndrews Law Offices : Special Needs Trusts
McAndrews Law Offices, P.C.

Special Needs Trusts

Special Needs Trusts are highly sophisticated, indispensable estate planning tools for individuals with disabilities. Benefits under Medical Assistance, Supplemental Security Income, and federal/state mental health or mental retardation benefits can be jeopardized by a failure to carefully structure a personal injury settlement, inheritance, divorce distribution, or retroactive social security payment.

We have been developing Special Needs Trusts for almost fifteen years to protect these benefits on behalf of individuals with disabilities. The leading personal injury lawyers throughout Pennsylvania have used our services on countless occasions.

The cost of developing such a trust is generally quite modest, and is generally regained in only two to four months of continued public benefits which often then last a lifetime.

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  • McAndrews Law Offices recently won two important victories on behalf of children with disabilities in federal court. In two separate cases, the federal court in Philadelphia overturned decisions of the Pennsylvania Appeals Panel and found in favor of children with disabilities and their families.Read More →
  • McAndrews Law Offices Have Speakers Available for your organization. We provide dozens of seminars and presentations each year to relevant organizations in the field of Special Education, Estate Planning, Special Needs Trusts. Our attorneys regularly speak at national, state, and local organizations such as parent groups, Bar Associations, community organizations, advocacy groups, and similar organizations. These presentations are provided at no cost, are educational in nature, and no marketing of our services is presented. If you would like to schedule a speaker for your organization, please contact Sarah Locher at 610-648-9300, and we will be happy to arrange a presentation for you.Read More →
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  • Federal Court in Pennsylvania Awards Compensatory Education in a Monetary Fund The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania recently found that a school district’s failure to provide an appropriate educational program required an award of compensatory education, and held that the award of compensatory education must be placed in a fund with a specified monetary amount for the child. Read More →