I love our life care planning practice.  Every day we are making a difference in our client’s lives, whether we are helping our clients find good care in a hospital or nursing home, putting correct estate planning documents in place or helping protect assets from the great expenses of long term care, we know that our families are in good hands and that their pressures are less.

As part of our quest to help families with their aging loved ones, our team recently took the Advanced Care Planning facilitator course offered by Project Grace.  This class, as part of the Gundersen Health System, was designed to help social workers, doctors, attorneys and hospice staffs talk to their patients/clients about correctly implementing advanced directives.  Although I have been practicing law for almost 13 years, I found the class to be extremely rewarding.

An advanced directive is a class of documents that work together to help people when they are incapacitated or dying.  These documents generally include living wills, healthcare surrogates, do not resuscitate orders and more.  Although I am on the Project Grace board of directors and have talked to clients for years about their living wills, it is only now that I have learned the best way to help my clients, and their families, to openly discuss their healthcare concerns so that their wishes are followed in difficult times.

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Join Florida elder law attorney Rep DeLoach for a free Aging With Dignity workshop at the law office of DeLoach + Hofstra, PA on May 23rd from 3-5pm. Seating is limited, to be sure to RSVP by calling Donna at 727-835-5502.

Topics for this informative workshop will include:

• Estate Planning Checkup
• Power of Attorney Update
• Medicaid and Veterans Benefits
• End of Life Decision Making
• Assistance with Care Givers

“Rep” DeLoach is uniquely qualified to help educate the St Petersburg community on Elder Law and Elder Care Law as one of very few Board Certified Elder Law Attorneys in Florida. “Rep” has a passion for working with seniors and educating both seniors directly and their families on how to properly plan for the “Golden Years”.

Elder Law Attorney “Rep” DeLoach will leading a discussion for the Largo community on Life Care Planning, Estate planning and the changes with the Power of Attorney. Come join Rep and learn how to plan for your future and where to get answers to questions about long term care.

“Rep” DeLoach is uniquely qualified to help educate the St Petersburg community on Elder Law and Elder Care Law as one of very few Board Certified Elder Law Attorneys in Florida. “Rep” has a passion for working with seniors and educating both seniors directly and their families on how to properly plan for the “Golden Years”.

Be sure to join “Rep” DeLoach at Oak Manor on Thursday, May 10th at 11am.

Elder Law Attorney “Rep” DeLoach will leading a discussion for the Largo community on Life Care Planning, Estate planning and the changes with the Power of Attorney. Come join Rep and learn how to plan for your future and where to get answers to questions about long term care.

“Rep” DeLoach is uniquely qualified to help educate the St Petersburg community on Elder Law and Elder Care Law as one of very few Board Certified Elder Law Attorneys in Florida. “Rep” has a passion for working with seniors and educating both seniors directly and their families on how to properly plan for the “Golden Years”.

Be sure to join “Rep” DeLoach at Allegro on Thursday, April 12th at 11am.

Elder Law Attorney “Rep” DeLoach will be presenting to the residents and surrounding community of Allegro Senior Living Facility. This seminar will focus heavily on Life Care Planning, Estate Planning, Wills, Trust, and Power of Attorney’s.

“Rep” DeLoach is uniquely qualified to help educate the St Petersburg community on Elder Law and Elder Care Law as one of very few Board Certified Elder Law Attorneys in Florida. “Rep” has a passion for working with seniors and educating both seniors directly and their families on how to properly plan for the “Golden Years”.

Be sure to join “Rep” DeLoach at Allegro on Thursday, March 8th at 12pm. RSVP with Shannon Harvey at Allergo – (727) 231-6771.

At DeLoach and Hofstra, our goal is help our clients and get their legal work done as efficiently and effectively as possible. We want our clients to understand their work product, what we are doing and why we are doing it. Estate Planning and other matters can be very complicated, but our goal is to make sure that your estate plan actually works upon your death or incapacity. Many estate plans fail because the client did not understand the implications of their will, the importance of funding their trust, or recognize the law of unintended consequences. An estate plan is more than a set of documents, it really is a plan for your death or incapacity.

Doing the right thing by our clients was instilled in me by my father. He has set the tone for creating a community law practice while giving the best quality legal care available. Being part of our community, we have a friendly law office. We do not screen our phone calls. We do not charge costs for faxes, copies or letters. Our fees are reasonable and we work with clients in paying for our services. We work every day of the week, return phone calls on time and will come in early and stay late to get your work done. When our clients are in need, we will do our best to help them – that is all there is to it.

It's not a record of which Floridians will be proud but this year should set a record for the number of Florida bankruptcy filings in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court Middle District of Florida .  In fact, the old record will be obliterated if the bankruptcy filing pace continues in the last two weeks of this year. 

Welcome to the DeLoach & Hofstra, P.A. blog where we’ll be writing and commenting on news and events affecting the various practice areas to which our firm has been committed since its founding in 1976. As always, our main focus will be keeping you and our community well-informed about legal issues that affect us.

Paul Cavonis will be blogging about injury law as well as his passion for motorcycles.

Colin Colgan will keep us informed of the various aspects of bankruptcy law and its complexities.

Rep DeLoach will be blogging out elder law and elder care. His posts may include legislative developments affecting Medicare and Medicaid as well as issues affecting our precious senior citizens.

Peter Hofstra will be following real estate trends and the difficult real estate market.

Dennis DeLoach, the founder of the firm, will explore the complex world of probate including trusts, wills, and estates.

We hope you enjoy the blog. We’re here for you when you need help.