Special Needs Planning

Help the special people in your life maintain and get the benefits they deserve by planning ahead.

People with special needs need extra special planning, care, and consideration.

Take care of them like they deserve!

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Reduced Stress

Dedicated Team For You

Treat You Like Family

They Can’t Afford the Wrong Plan

If you don’t plan correctly, they can lose their benefits
They don’t have to do without the benefits of an inheritance (and preserve their rights to other benefits)
The wrong plan puts their future in danger by leaving them a lump sum of money.
One mistake in your plan can lead to their benefits being reduce or cancelled. You need to use somebody that has education and experience.

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Protect Their Benefits

Your comprehensive plan preserves their benefits

Extras

Your plan can provide for extras their benefits don’t pay for.

Rest Easy & Stop Worrying

Your plan will give you peace of mind and confidence that you’ve done all you can to protect, preserve, and provide.

We Get it…You Worry About Your Family

We’ve helped many people just like you plan for their future

Knowledgeable

I found Gary’s winning combination of knowledge AND compassion to be priceless! I highly recommend him for your family’s estate planning needs.

Bambi B.

Professional

Mr. DeWitt and his wife were very professional and handled my legal needs in a timely fashion with attention to detail. I couldn’t ask for better service. I highly recommend this law firm.

Sylvia M.

Responsive

Gary and Winnie were amazing to work with. Eased a very rough and trying time with will and probate. They were on top of everything and were always very quick to answer my questions. If you have will problems or probate I highly recommend them.

Denise S.

Great Communications

Gary and team have been great to work with. Probate and estate planning can be a tough process but Gary has the knowledge and communication skills required to make this process as easy as possible for your family. If you’re searching for a probate or estate attorney, look no further!

M. Wyatt

Stress Free Step-by-Step System

Step 1

First Meeting

We’ll talk about your goals and needs then discuss your legal options for a successful outcome.

Step 2

Evaluate & Design

Get a plan of action for your issues or needs that is as easy and painless as possible, has the greatest chance to succeed, saves money, and upfront pricing

Step 3

Face Your Future With Confidence

Get your solution delivered. No matter what your legal issue is, get your solution as easily and painlessly as possible without costing more money or time than necessary.

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Helping You One Step at a Time

DeWitt Law Firm offers professional, knowledgeable legal solutions for families to protect your family with special needs.

You’ll be surprised at how easy this can be. We guide you through the process with our unique, easy to follow, one step at a time systems. We do the hard part.

For most of our work, we’ll give you the price up front for your peace of mind. From time to time we do hourly work, but that is the exception, not the norm.

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We aren’t a general practice law firm, and have developed a deep knowledge in estate planning, probate, special needs planning, and elder law or Medicaid so you can rest easy that we have a lot of expertise in these areas.
We believe in three things:
1. Law shouldn’t be hard for you. We should take care of the hard part and let you concentrate on what’s important
2. Systems make solutions easier
3. You deserve to know pricing ahead of time
We guide you through the legal process with a unique step-by-step, easy to follow systems based approach.
You give us the information we need and we put it into the legal form needed. You don’t have to speak legalese because we speak in plain language.
Everything we do – estate planning, probate, elder law, and special needs planning – is systems based.
What do systems mean for you?
A system is a repeatable set of steps to achieve your successful outcome. Systems simplify complex tasks by breaking them down into a set of easier steps. After each step is complete, the work is checked. Only if the work is correct is the next step is taken.
We also believe you deserve to know the price before we start to work. Some firms will take a guess at the number of hours, give you an estimate, and charge you at their hourly rate plus expenses. You don’t know how much you pay until they are done.
We don’t do that. We will give you a fixed price up front and stick to it, no matter how many hours we put in.
Because this is all we do, we are really familiar with the fees needed. We build them into our up front pricing. Rarely do we have unforeseen expenses.
We want to help you solve your legal issues one step at a time.

Why Should You Plan for Special Needs?

What Happens if You Don’t Plan?

Your loved one with special needs may lose out on their inheritance or may lose their benefits
Your family may be burdened with caring for your special needs child

When You Plan

Leave money for them without jeopardizing their benefits
Make sure funds are well managed and there is enough to meet their needs
Avoid giving it all to Medicaid

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What is a Special Needs Trust?
What is a Special Needs Trust?
A Special Needs Trust is used to hold money for your children without that money counting as an asset for Supplemental Security Income (SSI) or Medicaid. You can have the money in the trust used to pay for services that are not covered by government programs, insurance, or for extras that improve their quality of life like electronics, transportation, tickets, hobbies, and more.
Supplemental Needs Trust
First Party Special Needs Trust
Third Party Special Needs Trust
This type of trust is setup before any inheritance occurs and holds the inheritance. Because the person never owns the money, this third party special needs trust does not affect their benefits.
For example, Bobby’s mom and dad setup a third party special needs trust for Bobby. When they pass away, their joint life insurance policy pays to the trust. Bobby gets the advantage of the money without losing Medicaid, SSI, and any other means tested benefits.
These trusts DO NOT have a Medicaid payback provision.

Special Needs Planning Lawyer for Bella Vista, Bentonville, Rogers, Springdale, Fayetteville and All of Northwest Arkansas

With You Every Step of the Way

DeWitt Law Firm, PLLC

986 Elmwood Street, Suite D
Springdale, AR 72762