Fort Lauderdale · Broward County
Elder Law & Medicaid Planning Attorney serving Fort Lauderdale
Broward families often find themselves coordinating care for a parent from an hour away, with siblings scattered from Miami to New York. Our Zoom-first model was built for exactly that: every decision maker in the same virtual room, one set of meeting notes, one plan everyone understands.
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. Broward County probate is administered in the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit, through the Broward County Courthouse in Fort Lauderdale. 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 Broward County begins with a scored telephone screening through the Aging and Disability Resource Center of Broward County, 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 Broward 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.
Broward's density of hospitals, rehabilitation facilities, and skilled nursing facilities means the 60-day nursing home transition strategy comes up here more than almost anywhere in Florida.
How we serve Fort Lauderdale 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 Fort Lauderdale 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 Fort Lauderdale. 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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