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Other Legal Articles by Paul Premack...

•  Texas Medicaid Limits on Income, Spousal Allowance

• Texas Charitable Immunity & Liability Act -- Legal Protection for Volunteers

• Texas Durable Power of Attorney for Health Care - as Published in the Texas Bar Journal

• Medical/Legal Issues on Health Care for Consumers, Elderly, Caregivers and Administrators

Links to Legal Documents...

• Power of Attorney, Advance Directives, Survivorship Agreements and more via our Legal Documents Store.

• The Texas Department of Health Out of Hospital Do Not Resuscitate Order. This is the new 2000 form from the Dept. of Health, and can be taken to your doctor for completion.

• Free Legal Forms

 Links for Seniors...

• Information on the Medicare Savings Programs (QMB, SLMB) offered by Texas Dept. of Human Services.

• Texas No Call List - Bothered by telemarketing phonecalls? After January 1, 2002 Texas law allows you to pay a small fee to have your name put on the "no call list."

• ElderOptions of Texas - Health care and Senior Housing Guide based in Austin

• Medicare Compare is sponsored by the Center for Medicare Services (CMS). This website gives you a side-by-side comparison of your Medicare options. You input your zip code or city, and it returns a chart of HMOs available to you. It compares the costs and benefits of each HMO, and balances them against plain Medicare, or Medicare and a Supplemental "Medigap" policy.

• National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys

• National Fraud Information Center, which works in cooperation with the National  Association of Attorneys General and the Federal Trade Commission.

• National Senior Citizen Law Center in Washington, D.C.

• Nursing Home Compare, a service of the Center for Medicare Services (CMS). In addition to helpful manuals like "Guide to Choosing a Nursing Home," this site lists hundreds of nursing homes nationwide. It allows you to select a nursing center by name or location, then gives you the latest government inspection data, listing any deficiencies found.

• Social Security Online

• Texas Attorney General, Elder Law Division

• US Govt Administration on Aging, Senior Resources

Information on 529 Plans...

• Saving For College - A website from CPA Joe Hurley

• Texas 529 Plan - The plan established by Texas

• TIAA-CREF 529 Info - from the company that controls 529 plans for 13 of the states

• The College Board - from the folks who run the SAT testing program

• IRS Publication 970 - in PDF format; discusses tax rules for education savings

Just for fun...

• Lawyer Jokes