If you have a child with special needs then you have special issues to consider. When your child reaches the age of 18 she will become elegible for state benefits. If you or other family members give valuable gifts to your child you may endanger their elegibility for those benefits.

It is important that any gifts of cash or property be left to a specially written trust and not directly to your special needs child.

The special needs trust will name a manager who can hold and distribute assets for your child and still allow them to receive government benefits.

This type of trust is called a special needs trust.  They are set up to provide for ”special” needs. Those needs which are over and above the expenses paid for by government programs or by charitable organizations.

The trustee of a special needs trust is given strict instructions on how the trust assets may be used. The trustee may pay only those expenses that will not be paid for by a governmental agency or by a charity.

Trust assets may be used to provide extras that make life more interesting and fun for your child. The trust can pay for the extra things you would privide for your child if you were still here.

Example: If a State agency will pay for medical care then the special needs trust can not pay for doctor visits. If there is no State program or charity that will pay for summer camp for your child then the trust can pay to send your child to camp.

The estate plans of family members should be adjusted.

Your planning should include letting all family members know about the special needs trust. It is very important to make sure that their estate plans do not make gifts directly to the special needs child. It is much better for them to make gifts to the special needs trust.

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