Attorney Mark Heffner was pleased to present at today’s Alzheimer’s Foundation of America free virtual educational conference, Educating America Tour 2021, helping to connect Rhode Island residents with information about Alzheimer’s disease. The AFA’s Educating America tour is a nation-wide educational initiative connecting communities with information about Alzheimer’s disease, brain health, caregiving, and more. Participants […]
Category: Elder Law
Mark Heffner Video Testimony to RI Task Force on Elderly Abuse and Financial Exploitation
Following up on a post from this last Wednesday, we are sharing the video testimony of Attorney Mark Heffner’s presentation to the Rhode Island Special Task Force on Elderly Abuse and Financial Exploitation.
Mark Heffner Presents to Rhode Island Special Task Force on Elderly Abuse and Financial Exploitation
Our firm’s principal, Mark B. Heffner, Esq., will present later today (March 6, 2019) at the fourth meeting of the Rhode Island Special Task Force to Study Elderly Abuse and Financial Exploitation. Attorney Heffner, who is also a sitting member of the task force, served for ten years as a member of the Rhode Island […]
Presentation Slides for Providence Retired Teachers Association
On October 24th, I was pleased to present to a meeting of the Providence Retired Teachers Association (PRTA), a program entitled Estate and Medicaid Planning. As promised, posted below are the slides from the presentation. This presentation was the sixth time—the first being in 2003–that I have been privileged to present to the PRTA. As […]
“Navigating Mom’s Final Years” Recap: Tools for Supporting Aging Loved Ones
I was delighted and privileged to serve as a panelist on a seminar sponsored by The Catholic Foundation of Rhode Island on October 4th entitled Navigating Mom’s Final Years. Expertly organized by Andrea Krupp, Esq. of the Catholic Foundation, the fact pattern presented was honed by my fellow panelist Betsey Purinton, CFP of StrategicPoint. The […]
Elder Care Law Presentation Slides for Wellness at Brown
Many thanks to Wellness at Brown for hosting Friday’s program on Elder Care Law. It was an excellent turnout with many astute questions from participants. As promised, attached are the slides which I presented. In the continuing Q&A after the program, I indicated I would post a link to a blog post which I had […]
Brown University Wellness Program on Elder Care Law
I’m very pleased to be presenting at Brown University’s Wellness Program on Elder Care Law. The program will take place at 12:00 to 12:45 tomorrow (March 23rd) at Brown University in the Salomon Room 003. Below is a copy of the poster for my presentation:
An (Award Winning!) History of Rhode Island Guardianship Laws
This is just a quick follow-up to a post I shared back in May about an article I wrote on the evolution of guardianship in Rhode Island, which was published in the Rhode Island Bar Journal. I am now thrilled to share that the article was the winner of the 2016 Rhode Island Bar Journal […]
The Evolution of Rhode Island Guardianship Law
1984 doesn’t seem like that long ago. But at that time, only a little over 30 years ago, guardianship laws in this state were stuck in 1905. And in 1905, laws were only a marginal improvement over the colonial era laws first enacted in 1742. It’s hard to fathom, but in 1984, a person in […]