Family Law

• Guardianship
  We assist the parents of disabled children with appropriate estate planning, which generally includes one or more special needs trusts. In addition, we can help parents seek guardianship for disabled children as they reach 18 years of age, and we can help families achieve financial eligibility for their children to qualify them for disability assistance.

Business and Corporate Law

• Business Formation
• Business Disputes
  Attorney Allison M. Meade established her law firm in Boone in 2010.  She focuses her private practice on Estate Planning, Elder Law, and Business law and Contracts, and has served litigants as a certified Superior Court Mediator since 2011. Allison currently serves as Town Attorney for the Town of Boone, a position to which she was appointed in 2015.

Employment Law

• Employment Contract
  We also work with a number of local property owners associations (or “homeowners associations”) to handle a variety of matters, including management company issues and dues collection.

Health Law

• Personal Injury
  We also can help disabled adults maintain or re-establish financial eligibility for Medicaid and SSI despite receiving financial payouts such as inheritances or personal injury settlements.
• Medicaid Planning
  Medicaid can help with the cost of long term care in a skilled nursing facility (nursing home). Low-income elders who need assisted living level of care may also qualify for a program called “Special Assistance.” Both programs have strict requirements for the amount of “countable assets” that a person can have to be eligible. Generally an individual cannot have more than $2,000.00 ($3,000 if part of a married couple) in certain assets to be eligible for most benefits. However, that does NOT mean that you or your loved one necessarily must be impoverished to be eligible for help with the cost of care. In many cases the family home can be saved and other property as well. In addition, a so-called “community spouse” who still lives independently has the right to retain a certain amount of the couple’s assets and income, and a variety of legal techniques can be used to maximize the assets that can be retained for the community spouse.

Trusts and Estates

• Estate Planning
  Estate planning is about much more than just who receives your property when you die. We do not do “simple” wills, because no person or family is “simple.”
• Wills
• Trusts
  Who is able and willing to serve as Executor of your Will, as Trustee for minor children or grandchildren, or as Trustee of your living trust if you a become incapacitated?
• Probate