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Financial and Legal Caregiving Issues

As a family caregiver, responsibilities you may not have expected will fall to you. Along with health care, you may have to deal with your family member’s banking, investments, insurance, powers of attorney and other financial or legal matters. This is foreign ground to many of us at first. These articles will help you find your way.

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Choosing an Estate Executor

An essential role in family caregiving is being asked to administer financial matters with which, previously you have had little or no preparation. Choosing an estate trustee probably falls in that category.  Who and what is an estate trustee?  This is a person who is named in the last will and testament of the deceased.  It will be someone who is appointed to administer the will and ensure that the final wishes of the deceased are respected.  An estate trustee s...
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