A frequently asked question is whether a family can protect a senior's savings and home from being used to pay expensive medical and nursing home bills.
Experts say the law is pretty clear.
Assets can be transferred to a surviving spouse easily enough. But the only way to save assets for a child is to transfer them well in advance of a medical or housing crisis. That doesn't stop many people from panicking when their mother breaks a hip and ends up in a nursing home, resulting in a quick call to a lawyer asking how to get mom on Medicaid in order to save the inheritance. It depends on whom you are trying to benefit. A lot of people want information about transferring assets but then they find out that the care might not be as good if the elderly person is on Public Aid.