Sarasota · Sarasota County
Elder Law & Medicaid Planning Attorney serving Sarasota
Sarasota consistently ranks among the best places in America to retire, which means its families confront the second half of retirement, the years when care becomes the question, in larger numbers every year. We help Sarasota families answer it on their own terms, with assets intact.
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. Sarasota County probate is administered in the Twelfth Judicial Circuit, through the Sarasota County judicial center in downtown Sarasota. 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 Sarasota County begins with a scored telephone screening through the Area Agency on Aging for Southwest Florida, 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 Sarasota County as part of every design meeting.
Sarasota's deep retiree population makes waiver waitlist strategy and advance Medicaid planning especially relevant; the earlier the screening and the planning, the stronger the position.
How we serve Sarasota 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 Sarasota 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 Sarasota. 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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