There was an excellent workshop on Guardianships today at McHenry County College, put together by SEDOM and others. The seminar classroom was full, and the hand-outs were plentiful.
The panel included two attorneys, Brian Rubin of Buffalo Grove and Bob Farley of Naperville. Brian explained Special Needs Trusts, and Bob mentioned a successful lawsuit against the State of Illinois to obtain substantially increased benefits for a disabled client.
The advice of the attorneys is "don't assume that you can't get benefits (or higher benefits)", if you have a significant disability. An example was the level of care that can be paid for to a developmentally-disabled person only until he is 21, after which the State says the family can pay for it. Suppose the person needs round-the-clock care. How does a family afford that?
Options & Advocacy www.optionsandadvocacy.org/ was represented by its Executive Director, Cindy Sullivan. Also on the panel was Annette Hammortree, of Hammortree Financial Services www.hammortreefinancial.com/. A representative from Equip for Equality www.equipforequality.org/, Chicago, came all the way out to Crystal Lake for this meeting, and a mother and her son from Johnsburg completed the panel.
Services of the attorneys can be viewed on their websites:
Bob Farley: http://www.farley1.com/
Brian Rubin: http://www.snfp.com/
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Gus, the web site is actually www.snfp.net, and not www.snfp.com, or it can be reached at www.brianrubin.com.
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