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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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