Port St. Lucie · St. Lucie County

Elder Law & Medicaid Planning Attorney serving Port St. Lucie

Port St. Lucie is one of the fastest-growing retirement destinations in America, and its families face the long-term care question earlier than they expect. Because the Treasure Coast shares its aging network with our home county, the screening offices and regional programs your family will deal with are the same ones we work with every week.

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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What is local about a Port St. Lucie matter

Probate venue. St. Lucie County probate is administered in the Nineteenth Judicial Circuit, through the St. Lucie County Courthouse in Fort Pierce. 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 St. Lucie 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, is expanding across Florida; we confirm current enrollment options for St. Lucie County as part of every design meeting.

St. Lucie County shares its regional aging and screening network with Palm Beach County, so Treasure Coast families work through offices this firm already knows well.

How we serve Port St. Lucie 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 Port St. Lucie 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 Port St. Lucie. 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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