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		<title>Medicare Open Enrollment Ends Early This Year</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Medicare open enrollment period ends this year earlier than prior year open enrollment periods, December 7 instead of December 31. The open enrollment period to make changes to your Medicare coverage, or to add coverage such as Medicare Part D drug coverage ends December 7, 2011. Now is the time to act if you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gatesmanlaw.com/2011/10/22/medicare-open-enrollment-ends-early-this-year/</link>
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		<title>Article Hotlinks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Subscribers to our email newsletter receive plain text copies of the most recent articles. When an article on the website contains the text, &#8220;click here&#8221; that is a &#8220;hot link&#8221; leading to additional information. If the reader were to move his or her cursor on to that hot link and click the mouse, then the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gatesmanlaw.com/2011/09/28/article-hotlinks/</link>
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		<title>Reflections of a Non-Expert Caregiver</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Carol Allen cared for her mother, who had Alzheimer&#8217;s disease, for more than five years. Carol has spoken and written articles about her experience. Rather than &#8220;losing someone to Alzheimer&#8217;s,&#8221; Carol has been able to celebrate life through the process of caring for her mother. Carol writes: &#8220;You hear of people ‘losing someone they love [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gatesmanlaw.com/2011/09/20/reflections-of-a-non-expert-caregiver/</link>
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		<title>The Gatesman Law Office</title>
		<description><![CDATA[William M. Gatesman is licensed to practice law in Maryland and the District of Columbia, where he advises clients concerning wills and trusts, medical and financial powers of attorney, estate planning, probate and estate administration, Medicaid planning, disability planning, and asset preservation planning. Mr. Gatesman practices law as the Gatesman Law Office and, in western [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Legislature Tinkers With Power of Attorney Form</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As noted in other articles I have written, Maryland changed its Power of Attorney law effective October, 2010. If an individual uses one of the form Powers of Attorney in the statute, or a power of attorney that is in substantially the same form, and a bank refuses to accept it, then the individual can [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gatesmanlaw.com/2011/07/20/legislature-tinkers-with-power-of-attorney-form/</link>
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		<title>May a Personal Representative Represent an Estate in Court Without a Lawyer?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Several lawyers have been pondering whether it is illegal for a Personal Representative to bring a legal action without a lawyer because doing so would be considered the unauthorized practice of law. This office was involved in a case a few years ago in which the Maryland Court of Special Appeals ruled that a Personal [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gatesmanlaw.com/2011/07/15/may-personal-representative-represent-estate-in-court/</link>
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		<title>Medicaid Waiver and the Young</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some people require skilled care services even at a young age. For example, some people in their early 50&#8242;s with advanced Parkinson&#8217;s Disease or Multiple Sclerosis find that the only way to afford needed services is to reside in a nursing home where Medical Assistance will cover the costs of care. Unfortunately, while such people [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gatesmanlaw.com/2011/07/12/medicaid-waiver-and-the-young/</link>
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		<title>Unorthodox Asset Preservation Strategy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mother, who received Medicaid for day care during her lifetime, died. While her will states that the house should remain available for any child of hers who cannot afford a place to live, the creditors in a probate estate take priority. The Maryland Medicaid program was the sole creditor, filing a claim in the estate [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gatesmanlaw.com/2011/04/23/unorthodox-asset-preservation-strategy/</link>
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		<title>Probate to Remove a Cloud on Title</title>
		<description><![CDATA[William M. Gatesman and the Michael G. Day Law Office recently assisted a client in the following situation. During her husband&#8217;s lifetime, the client and her husband transferred their real estate to various trusts using deeds that identified the trust as the recipient or grantee of the property, specifically using the name of the trust [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gatesmanlaw.com/2011/03/14/probate-to-remove-a-cloud-on-title/</link>
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		<title>Durable Power of Attorney</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Maryland&#8217;s new General and Limited Power of Attorney Act changed the law of Maryland relating to powers of attorney effective October 1, 2010. Up to that point, there was a presumption that any power of attorney executed in Maryland was durable unless it stated otherwise. A durable power of attorney is a power of attorney [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gatesmanlaw.com/2011/02/07/durable-power-of-attorney/</link>
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