What is my mother’s real name? – and – Home maintenance costs under Medicaid
This column first appeared in the San Antonio Express News on April 13, 2018. Dear Mr. Premack: My mother recently had her Will drawn up by an attorney. She gave him the name she has used for years, which is on her social security card, on her marriage license, on her bank accounts, and on her house title. Now that name is on her Will. I was at her house and found a copy of her birth certificate, and it lists a different first name (her birth certificate says “Eleanor Bonnie”