Long Term Care
Many persons want to make arrangements to minimize the possibility of having to go to a nursing home. Thus, the practice area of Long Term Care involves more than Medicaid planning, which is mostly geared towards preserving assets in case of a nursing home stay.
Although Attorney Barreira does not sell investments or insurance products, he is a strong advocate of long term care insurance, and has even gone so far as to suggest that lawyers should be recommending it instead of Medicaid planning. A Question for Practicing Lawyers: Could It Be Legal Malpractice to Ignore Long-Term Care Insurance?