2023 Employment Law Changes — And Steps To Take Before 2024

Providing and Protecting: Supplemental and Special Needs Trusts

Jessica Timmington Lindstrom will be presenting at the Minnesota CLE program “Providing and Protecting: Supplemental and Special Needs Trusts,” as part of the Understanding Trusts seminar. Supplemental and special needs trusts are established to benefit a person with a disability by supplementing the government benefits they receive. Attendees will learn the differences and uses of these ...

Drafting for Incapacity: The Trustee’s Perspective on Trust Administration Challenges When Capacity Is at Issue

By: Jessica Timmington Lindstrom

Jessica Timmington Lindstrom will participate in a panel discussion at the 2022 Probate and Trust Law Section Conference on June 13, 2022. PROBATE AND TRUST LAW SECTION The panel of attorneys and trustees will discuss the importance of considering Grantor incapacity and how a Trust and its assets and distributions would be managed.  The panel ...

Legal and Financial Information for Caregivers

Jessica Timmington Lindstrom will be giving a presentation at the Normandale Center for Healing and Wholeness on June 11, 2022. This class will cover a legal and financial topics such as: powers of attorney, health care directives, wills, social security and other benefit planning, medical assistance elderly waiver, and more. An experienced elder law attorney, Jessica ...

Probate A to Z: Medicaid Estate Recovery Rules, Remedies and Appeals

Trusts & Estates attorney Jessica Timmington Lindstrom will present at the Minnestoa CLE webinar “Probate A to Z: Medicaid Estate Recovery Rules, Remedies, and Appeals” in which she will break down the complex area of Medicaid estate recovery in this essential installment of the Probate A to Z series. Topics include state and federal estate ...

Elder Law 101: Special Needs Trusts – The Basics

Jessica Timmington Lindstrom will be presenting, “Elder Law 101 – Special Needs Trusts – The Basics,” on December 16, 2021.  This Minnesota State Bar Association CLE presentation will discuss the basics of special needs trust planning, including an overview of a special needs trust, along with tips, tricks, and warnings as it relates to the ...

Would We Free Britney? Minnesota Guardianship Law and the Conservatorship of Britney Spears

Jessica Timmington Lindstrom joins a panel presentation hosted by the Ramsey County Bar Association Trusts & Estates Section. The panel, “Would We Free Britney? Minnesota Guardianship Law and the Conservatorship of Britney Spears,” will focus on the troubling and notorious case of the Conservatorship of Britney Spears by three professionals specializing in incapacity planning, guardianships ...

Irrevocable Trusts and the Interplay with MA Benefits

Trusts, Wills & Estates attorney Jessica Lindstrom will co-present a webinar for Minnesota CLE, “Irrevocable Trusts and the Interplay with MA Benefits.” Jessica will draw on her experience in elder law to explain key considerations when working with irrevocable trusts and medical assistance benefits.

Meritocracy or Mirrotocracy? Reexamining Hiring Practices of New Lawyers

Jessica Timmington Lindstrom, attorney in the Trusts & Estates practice, authored an article in Hennepin Lawyer titled “Meritocracy or Mirrotocracy? Reexamining Hiring Practices of New Lawyers,” which analyzes the slow process of change in the legal industry, and challenges the industry to reassess how it trains, hires and advances lawyers. To read the full article, please ...

Medical Assistance How-To’s for the Elderly Client

Attorney Jessica Timmington Lindstrom will present at the Minnesota CLE Medical Assistance How-To’s for the Elderly Client seminar on August 11, 2020. Her session, “How to Use 4 Important Special Needs Planning Tools” will cover topics including guardianship, conservatorship, special needs trusts, and SSDI/SSI benefits. For more information or to register, please click here.

Will Harmless Error Rule

By: Samantha L. Heaton

On April 15, 2020, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz signed into law new legislation related to COVID-19.  Among many other provisions, the legislation includes a relaxation of the normal formalities for signing a Will by including a “Harmless Error” provision. Typically, in order for a person to create a Will, two witnesses must be present to ...

COVID-19 and Estate Planning: Strategies to Consider Now

By: Samantha L. Heaton

The COVID-19 pandemic has led to dramatic fluctuations in the stock market and the value of closely held businesses.  Although we all hope that the massive dips in values are temporary, these challenges present unique opportunities for individuals who would be subject to federal or state estate taxes.  Lower values allow more assets to be ...

Probate A to Z: Medicaid Estate Recovery Rules, Remedies, and Appeals

Attorney Jessica Lindstrom breaks down the complex area of Medicaid estate recovery in a webcast hosted by Minnesota CLE.