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New Jersey Elder Law, Estate and Special Needs Planning, Mediation and Collaborative Family Law.
By Donald D. Vanarelli

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Last Entry: July 09, 2009 at 18:18:42

My Article on Elder Mediation Published in Aging Well Magazine

Posted on September 13, 2008
Aging Well magazine, which is for “Professionals Promoting Positive Aging,” recently published an article I wrote on elder mediation, entitled “Keeping Family Peace Through Elder Mediation.” The article can be found here - “Keeping Family Peace Through Elder Mediation...

You Should Prepare For Mediation Like You Prepare For Trial

Posted on September 07, 2008
Trials, as a method of dispute resolution, have been trending downward for years. For example, the number of tort trials in the federal courts declined by 80% from 1985 to 2003. Of the 98,786 tort cases resolved in federal court in 2002 and 2003, only 1,647, or 1...

Attorney/Mediator Nina Weiss, a Founding Member of the Elder Mediation Center of New Jersey, Quoted in WSJ Article on Mediating Elder Care Disputes

Posted on August 30, 2008
Nina Weiss, Esq., an attorney/mediator and partner with the law firm of Serra/Weiss in Princeton, NJ, is a founding member of the Elder Mediation Center of New Jersey (EMCNJ). Mediator Weiss was quoted in the March 2, 2008 edition of The Wall Street Journal in an article describing the growing recognition and use of elder mediation [...

ELDER MEDIATION: An Opportunity for Professional Geriatric Care Managers

Posted on August 29, 2008
(I am happy to introduce my first guest blogger, Marcie D. Cooper. Marcie is a geriatric care manager with several advanced degrees and licenses, such as an MSW, LCSW, and C-ASWCM. She is the owner of her own care management company, aptly named Marcie Cooper Care Manager, LLC, located in Fair Lawn, NJ...

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Backlog in decisions on claims for Social Security disability benefits continues

Posted on June 16, 2008
Processing times for Social Security determinations have reached intolerable levels. For instance, the average processing time for cases at the hearing level has increased dramatically since 2000, when the average time was 274 days. In the current fiscal year, SSA estimates that the average processing time for disability claims at the hearing level will be [...

Owner of this Blog quoted in Lawyers USA article on Elder Mediation

Posted on June 13, 2008
A recent article in the Lawyers USA newspaper discussed the growing use of elder mediation to resolve family disputes. The article quoted several practitioners of elder mediation, including the owner of this weblog, on their practice specialties and the use of elder mediation as part of an elder law practice when family disagreements arise...

McGreevey divorce leads to upsurge in interest in mediation and collaborative divorce

Posted on June 11, 2008
The highly publicized McGreevey divorce dispute has served as a wake-up call for at least a few couples who have realized this is a road they don’t want to go down. Divorcing couples, seeing that spectacle in the newspaper and on TV, realize that they don’t want to be like that and [...

Federal Court Ruled that a Disabled Person May Be Entitled to In-Home Care in Lieu of Institutionalization

Posted on June 09, 2008
A federal district court in Illinois denied the state Medicaid agency’s motion for summary judgment in a case testing whether a man with severe disabilities can receive care at home under the state’s Medicaid waiver program rather than in a nursing home...

Recent Wall Street Journal article espoused the benefits of mediated and collaborative divorces over litigated divorces

Posted on June 08, 2008
The June 6, 2008 edition of the Wall Street Journal included an interesting article entitled “Separate Peace.” It espoused the benefits of divorce mediation and collaborative divorce, particularly where children were involved. Although the article criticized the approach of “normalizing” divorce found in both mediation and collaborative divorce, which the author believed could lead couples [...

New Jersey plans to implement Long-Term Care Insurance Partnership Program on July 1, 2008

Posted on June 06, 2008
The Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 (”DRA”) authorized the expansion of the Long Term Care Insurance Partnership Program into the various states. New Jersey’s Long Term Care insurance Partnership Program was approved by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (”CMS”) on February 12, 2008 and will become effective on July 1, 2008...

Cash and Counseling, a Non-Traditional Medicaid Program, Is Adopted by More States

Posted on June 03, 2008
Many states are now giving Medicaid-eligible seniors a monthly stipend they can use to hire [...]

Assisted-living facilities in South Jersey accused of evicting residents when savings gone

Posted on June 01, 2008
According to a recent article in the Philadelphia Inquirer, the New Jersey Office of the Public Advocate is investigating allegations that a company operating eight assisted living facilities in South Jersey improperly discharged residents when their savings ran out...

Owner of this Blog identified by NJBIZ magazine as One of the Top Mediators in New Jersey in the Business and Commercial practice areas

Posted on May 30, 2008
NJBIZ is a weekly magazine covering business news in New Jersey. In the May 5, 2008 edition of NJBIZ , the top 25 mediators in the Business/Commercial practice areas were identified by the publication. The selections were based on the total number of cases mediated...

Founder of the Elder Mediation Center of New Jersey quoted in the Long Island Business News on the use of elder mediation to resolve conflicts between adult children and their aged parents

Posted on May 28, 2008
As I’ve written on other occasions, as life spans increase, the prospects for sibling squabbles over Mom and Dad grow more likely. One growing trend: custody battles involving adult children fighting over where their elderly parents should live, who should care for them and who should control the finances...

High-Tech Devices Promote ?Aging in Place? for the Elderly

Posted on May 25, 2008
Will aging baby-boomers who wish to remain at home in their later years (called “aging in place”) soon be able to do so while they are monitored remotely by their adult children who use high-tech devises to ensure the “old folks” are safe and compliant with their health care regimen? According to the [...

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