Van Winkle’s attorneys offer the elderly and other individuals with special needs extensive experience in handling their very complex issues. In addition to traditional estate planning, specialized services include planning for long-term care, coordinating private and public resources to finance such care, designing and administering special needs trusts, and assembling and coordinating teams of related professionals to ensure the highest quality of care. The firm also has on its staff one of only 10 Certified Elder Law Attorneys in the state and one of fewer than 400 in the nation.

Elder Law & Disability Planning - Types of Services

• Guardianships
• Medicaid and SSI planning and applications
• Special needs trusts
• Settlement preservation trusts
• Planning for nursing home care
• Coordination of extended care professionals
• Wills, trusts and advanced directives (including living wills and health care surrogates)
• Trust and estate administration
• Trustee reviews

Professional Memberships

• North Carolina Bar Association
  • Elder Law Section
  • Estate Planning and Fiduciary Law Section
• American College of Trusts and Estates Council
• Land of Sky Estate Planning Council
• National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys