{"id":15416,"date":"2021-07-08T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-08T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/martinlawyers.com\/?p=15416"},"modified":"2021-06-29T21:45:15","modified_gmt":"2021-06-30T01:45:15","slug":"things-change-when-you-should-update-your-special-needs-trust-in-parker-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/martinlawyers.com\/things-change-when-you-should-update-your-special-needs-trust-in-parker-county\/","title":{"rendered":"Things Change: When You Should Update Your Special Needs Trust In Parker County"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nothing lasts forever. Your smiling baby becomes a child who becomes an adult. You change too. You won\u2019t always be there for your child with special needs and you shouldn\u2019t have to worry about those times. You may already have a Special Needs Trust in Parker County, but it\u2019s important to continue to review your trust to ensure that it still meets the needs of your family.<\/span><\/p>\n

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All the reasons why you\u2019d update your Special Needs Trust<\/a> (SNT) boil down to one thing: change. A trust is a snapshot of your finances and wealth at a particular moment in time, but things may not always stay the same. The following are reasons why you would change your Special Needs Trust and the reasons for doing so:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Your finances change. <\/b>Down markets, unexpected expenses, and property loss can limit the amount of resources that will comprise your child\u2019s Special Needs Trust. Yet, promotions, property values surging, and other windfalls can mean not just more valuable properties to put in the SNT, but new ones to consider allocating for your child\u2019s care.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Your child\u2019s needs change. <\/b>Aside from your child becoming ill or harmed, needs can change in other ways. For example, your child may have started a new type of therapy that\u2019s proving very beneficial, and you want to make sure that there are funds to cover that therapy in the future.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Your health changes.<\/b> While you\u2019d like to be there for your child for eternity, that\u2019s not possible, and even the healthiest of adults may fall ill, sometimes without warning. If your health has recently taken a turn, it\u2019s wise to contact a local Parker County special needs attorney<\/a> to discuss these changes and how they may affect your plan. Give us a call and our Parker County law attorneys will be happy to schedule an appointment<\/a> to meet you in our Aledo office.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Families change. <\/b>If you created your Special Needs Trust a while ago and haven\u2019t updated it, there may have been changes in the family<\/a> since then, such as births, deaths, and marriages. You may want to change your trustee or asset allocations to accommodate these changes, and not just for the SNT, but for all your estate planning<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Opportunities may come or go. <\/b>In some states and regions of the country, it\u2019s more difficult to get into a good assisted living facility or group home; however, there are many Parker County assisted living facilities and communities and Parker County skilled nursing facilities<\/a> that could benefit your special needs child.\u00a0 Sometimes spots open up and a child can move up on the waiting list. Medicaid may not pay for all the costs so it is prudent to make sure that the Special Needs Trust will cover any new or additional costs for taking opportunities like this that may have occurred after the original SNT was created. <\/span>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nothing lasts forever. Your smiling baby becomes a child who becomes an adult. You change too. You won\u2019t always be there for your child with special needs and you shouldn\u2019t have to worry about those times. You may already have a Special Needs Trust in Parker County, but it\u2019s important to continue to review your…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3990,3984,3986,3936,3991,3992,3980,3985,3993,3906,3964,3965,3900,3907,3962],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinlawyers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15416"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinlawyers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinlawyers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinlawyers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinlawyers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/martinlawyers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinlawyers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinlawyers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinlawyers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}