Boca Raton · Palm Beach County
Elder Law & Medicaid Planning Attorney serving Boca Raton
Boca Raton families tend to arrive with substantial retirement savings, a valuable homestead, and a plan drafted years ago in New York or New Jersey that has never been conformed to Florida law. That combination is exactly our work: Florida-izing the plan, protecting the homestead, and building the long-term care strategy before it is needed. Evan Turk is admitted in both Florida and New Jersey, which matters more often in Boca than almost anywhere else.
Turk Law Group is a boutique West Palm Beach firm serving families throughout Florida: Medicaid and long-term care planning, estate planning and trusts, probate avoidance, asset protection, and protection from elder exploitation. Meetings are held by Zoom with every family decision maker in the room, and documents are executed under Florida's remote online notarization law or by coordinated signing near you.
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Probate venue. Palm Beach County probate is administered in the Fifteenth Judicial Circuit, through the Palm Beach County courthouse system, including the South County Courthouse in Delray Beach. A funded revocable trust keeps your family out of that courthouse entirely; when probate is unavoidable, we handle it without your family ever needing to appear.
The aging network. Home and assisted living Medicaid in Palm Beach County begins with a scored telephone screening through Your Aging and Disability Resource Center (the Area Agency on Aging serving Palm Beach County and the Treasure Coast), reached via Florida's statewide Elder Helpline, 1-800-963-5337. That screening call determines your place in line for the waiver; we prepare families for it before they dial.
Alternative programs. PACE, the Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly, operates in Palm Beach County, offering an alternative pathway to comprehensive community-based care with its own enrollment process. We evaluate PACE alongside the waiver in every design meeting.
Many Boca Raton clients hold documents drafted up north; Florida's homestead, witness, and trust rules differ in ways that can quietly break an out-of-state plan.
How we serve Boca Raton families
Plan ahead
Medicaid Asset Protection Trusts, Lady Bird deeds, and integrated estate plans built five or more years before care, so nothing is countable when it matters.
Navigate a crisis
When care is needed now: asset and income strategy, spousal protections, Qualified Income Trusts, the Medicaid application, and guidance through the facility process.
Keep it current
Every strategy is executed, funded, and reviewed through our Legacy 360™ process, so the plan still works when your family finally needs it.
Questions Boca Raton families ask
- Do we ever need to come to West Palm Beach?
- No. Every standard meeting is by Zoom, and signings are completed under Florida's remote online notarization law or coordinated near Boca Raton. The plan, and the law behind it, is identical statewide.
- Will Medicaid take the house?
- The Florida homestead is generally protected during life, but Medicaid estate recovery can reach it after death without planning. The right deed or trust structure protects it. Run the numbers with our free probate and long-term care calculators.
- Is it too late if my parent is already in a facility?
- Almost never. Crisis planning routinely preserves far more than families expect, and a nursing home stay can even open a pathway around the waiver waitlist for home or assisted living care. The strategies narrow with time, so call sooner rather than later.
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