GENTRY ELDER LAW, P.A.

WELCOME to the LAW OFFICE of BROOKS N. GENTRY, JD, LLM.

What is Elder Law?

Elder Law is strategic Estate Planning that enables, promotes, and sustains your best quality of care and life.

While Elder Law attorneys design well-crafted, thorough estate plans for all generations, we are different in that we bring our senior clients significant additional value with enhanced care and counsel tailored especially to their and their family's unique needs and concerns.

Elder Law provides creative, targeted solutions for a wide variety of estate planning and life care issues, including Wills & Trusts & Advance Directives, often combined with age-focused solutions for Retirement Planning, Long Term Care Planning, Medicaid and other Public Benefits Planning including Veterans (VA) Benefits, Special Needs Planning, Moving into a Facility and related Financial Planning and Asset Preservation, Medical Decision Making, End of Life Care Planning, Alzheimer's and Diminished Capacity Counseling, Guardianship & its Alternatives, & Probate.

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What is an Elder Law attorney?

An Elder Law attorney knows not just the law and the many ways Estate Planning allows all generations to plan for your wishes. An Elder Law attorney must also know important details about our senior population and their unique needs, particularly those relating to legal competence, aging, disability, medical, retirement, financial, housing, and more.

For example, an Elder Law attorney should provide comprehensive, strategic estate planning while also taking special consideration of our senior clients' health, physical and mental challenges, emotional concerns, assisted living and nursing home possibilities, retirement resources, Medicaid eligibility requirements, end of life arrangements, the ever present financial concerns related to each, and much more.

Your Elder Law attorney should be kind and compassionate too.

Who do we help?

We help people of all ages, from our most advanced in age to children, and all generations in between. No matter your age or station in life, proper estate planning, meaning planning kept in context with your age and station in life, can make all the difference.

How may we help you?

We need to talk privately about your situation. Every client's experience is unique and yours deserves to be heard, researched, and properly discussed.

Call 727-231-1080 or email us (see Contact page) today & ask how we can help you.

DISCLAIMER:

The hiring of an attorney is a very important decision and should not be based solely on advertisements. To aid in your decision making process, please contact us for free, detailed information about the firm and our services.

Information obtained from this website is not intended to be and is not legal advice.

To obtain legal advice you will first need to be an Engaged Client with the firm, which we will confirm with you in writing at that time. Being a viewer of this website or sending an email using the contact form does not make you our Engaged Client, which means certain attorney client protections do not attach.

Thus, this website and its contents are provided only as an informational resource, not legal counsel. Neither Brooks, his staff, nor the firm intend to treat as private the information you send to us via this website. And please note, such information could be used against you by us in the future.

Therefore, to protect your privacy and liability, please do not disclose any private or confidential information until we have fully discussed your privacy and confidentiality directly over the phone first.

If you have any questions about this or anything else, call 727-231-1080 today.

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Florida Estate & Life Care Planning

Every person and every family is different. Planning for your estate is personal and deserves keen examination. We privately help you with this process.

We also help when things happen and life changes. Whether it be a child or grandparent or anyone in between, proper planning can make a real difference.

Or, maybe you are in a crisis. We provide crisis-management, particularly end of life. Please don't hesitate to call; we're here to help.

Wills, Trusts, & Administration

There are some documents everyone should have, and some that some people should have. Most people should have a Will. Some people should have a Trust.

We privately help you determine which arrangement is best for you based on your personal situation. Estate plans should be tailored to you, and that is what we do.

We also draft and help you execute other legal documents such as Living Wills, Durable Powers of Attorney, Medical Powers of Attorney, and Health Care Surrogates. Each is an important part of a holistic and well tailored Estate and Life Care Plan.

Public Benefits Planning

Social Security, Medicare, Disability, Medicaid, Veterans, and other public benefits all require careful analysis before making decisions. This is especially true if you are or are trying to receive two or more benefits. Qualifying for one may bump you off another. Sometimes qualifying for just one is hard enough.

But, with proper planning, this bump and disqualifying actions may be avoided. Plus, some public benefits are age based, some are income, some are both and more. The complexities abound. We help you navigate these benefit complexities.

Long Term Care Planning

How will the later years be managed, and paid for? Is purchasing long-term care insurance a smart idea? Can you afford assisted living if you don't need to be in a nursing home? What will Medicaid pay?

We help you answer these pressing, difficult questions. Call or email today for your complimentary initial consultation.

Probate & Guardianship

Unfortunately these two matters become pertinent when someone has passed away or lost capacity. And, Probate and Guardianship require diligent cooperation with the court.

We provide counsel and representation for each during these difficult times. In addition, proper estate planning can often avoid lengthy Probate. We also emphasize and provide several alternatives to Guardianship, which can save money, time, and peace of mind. If Guardianship is appropriate we help you navigate that process too.

Modern Digital Asset Planning

Even if you don't have an email account, your kids probably do. Some people have many online accounts these days, but most of us have nothing in writing to help someone else manage our accounts if we pass away or lose capacity.

Can you even keep control of your online life when you pass away or lose capacity?

We help you put your online life in writing such that only when it's the proper time, someone else may be able to manage your digital domain, or possibly terminate or remove your online accounts, if that's your wish.

If you bank or do other business online, digital asset planning is even more important to address proactively. And, questions we don't ask often enough: what will happen to and who will have access to your cell phone and other devices when you die? We help you plan for these questions and put in place answers that represent your wishes, and hopefully not someone else's, or a company's.

Planning for our digital life is slowly making its introduction into the estate planning realm. Mr. Gentry is on the forefront of this emerging service and continues to remain updated as the theory, application, and law evolve.

If you have any questions on how to plan and manage your digital life, just call: 727-231-1080.

Small Business Succession Planning

Just like people, small businesses should have a plan for when the owner/main decision makers pass away or lose capacity, or when disasters strike the business. Proper planning is particularly important for family owned businesses.

We provide Small Business Succession Planning for businesses in Pinellas County, including local restaurants. Small Business Succession Planning is very detailed and requires an intelligent understanding of industry specific operations, inventory, employee relations, and of course adherence to confidentiality, all in addition to understanding estate and succession planning.

Not only do we have these understandings, Mr. Gentry as a local native cares about our community and enjoys knowing our small local businesses have planned for the future and are prepared. In Hurricane experienced Tampa Bay, preparedness and smart business planning will always be key to our business's enduring success.

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Other FL Elder Law Matters

Sometimes people experience situations that don't fall neatly into a common category. We are happy to discuss anything you need help with, even if it's not a legal issue. Sometimes a simple conversation and basic info on where to look for what you need can work out your situation. Or, perhaps major legal research is required. Your set of facts is always unique, and personal, and your solutions should be tailored that way too.

Let's privately discuss your situation and see how we can help.

Call today.

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