Playbook for Long Term Care & Estate Planning 2026

  • OnDemand seminar
  • Course manual (PDF)
  • Course manual (PDF) and Audio (MP3)
  • MP3
  • Estate Planning and Probate Law
Up to 6.5 Credit Hours
Playbook for Long Term Care & Estate Planning 2026

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Get a clearer, more complete picture of long-term care and estate planning in one focused day. Playbook for Long-Term Care and Estate Planning brings together three essential programs into a single, comprehensive webcast. Whether you’re reinforcing your skills or expanding into advanced planning work, this cost-effective program delivers practical instruction, real-world context, and valuable continuing education credits—all in one streamlined package.

Product details

Schedule

8:30 am
Boldly go where no estate plan has gone before
  • What is a Digital Asset?
  • Special Considerations in Planning for Digital Assets
  • What Happens to Digital Assets When a Client Dies?
  • Planning Methods for Digital Assets - Digital Estate Plan
  • Best Practices for Keeping Your Digital Assets Accessible to Your Digital Executor
9:23 am
Break
9:28 am
Boldly go where no estate plan has gone before (cont.)
10:23 am
Break10:38 a.m. Medicaid: The Final Spenddown
  • Introduction to Medicaid and Family Care
  • Countable assets and income for both married couples and single individuals, and the detailed application process
  • Divestment, the lookback period, and exceptions, as well as the implications of signing over a house
  • The meaning of "spending down," common planning methods, and the strategic use of life insurance
11:30 am
Break
11:41 am
Medicaid: The Final Spenddown (cont.)
12:09 pm
Lunch
1:09 pm
Medicaid: The Final Spenddown (continued)
1:30 pm
XYZ’s of Advanced Long Term Care Planning
  • Analysis of the Veteran Improved Pension Program: qualification, annuities, income and asset limitations
  • The relationship between long-term care insurance and other planning methods
  • The use of trusts in long term care planning
  • Common mistakes made by clients before qualifying for assistance programs
  • Mistakes made after qualifying for assistance programs that result in a removal of benefits
  • Difference in types of long term care insurance policies, policy options and standards, suitability of inflation riders on polices, and the importance of Wisconsin's Partnership Program
  • Planning for qualification vs. planning for estate recovery
  • Family caregiver agreements, marital agreements, under utilized statutory exceptions for qualifications, and when to use a WISPACT Trust
2:24 pm
Break
2:39 pm
XYZ’s of Advanced Long Term Care Planning (continued)
3:46 pm
Program Concludes

Faculty

  • Build confidence in identifying, organizing, and supporting the management of digital assets in today’s estate plans
  • Apply informed Medicaid spend-down strategies, life insurance considerations, and emergency planning approaches to better support individualized client solutions
  • Provide more informed, well-rounded support on long-term care planning matters
  • Avoid common mistakes made by clients that can result in delays or denials of benefits
  • Paralegals
  • Estate planning lawyers
  • Probate lawyers

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