Legal: Guardianship

Attorney specializing in: Estate Planning, Special education Law, Guardian ad litem Services, Family Law, Personal Injury, Civil and Criminal Appeals. Based in Ashtabula, OH, and serves communities in Northeast Ohio.

Offers guardianship services to residents of Ohio, ages 18 and over, who have a disability.

Special needs law firm with several national offices, including Cleveland. They specialize in trust and estate planning, special education law, guardianships, and other legal needs, especially low-income assistance.

Guardianship takes away a person’s ability to make choices. Because the appointment of a guardian takes away a person’s ability to make decisions about his or her life, other options which place fewer restrictions on the person with a disability can be considered first.

This document identifies these less restrictive options and defines how they work.

A brief but comprehensive, nonlegalistic overview of guardianship in Ohio, especially for families who have a child with mental disabilities. Much of the information is also relevant concerning someone with mental illness or concerning someone who has lost competence as the result of an injury or the effects of aging.

A comprehensive overview of guardianship and alternatives in Ohio in a question and answer format. The information is written for families who have a child with a developmental disability but may be relevant for others who need to navigate the often confusing and intimidating world of probate court and guardianship.

Hickman & Lowder can help with Special Education (IEPs and Medication); Special Needs Estate Planning; Medicaid Planning; Guardianships and Conservatorships; and Public and Private Agency Representation.

Julie A. Wagner is an attorney experienced in working with adults and children on the spectrum, Ms. Wagner focuses on special needs estate planning and guardianships. She has represented adults on the spectrum in a wide variety of legal matters. She is a professional who “gets it” in a world that sometimes does not seem to get it at all.

Wills and trusts, estate planning, guardianship, Medicaid planning, special needs law

McFadden Bushnell specializes in Special Needs planning and trusts in addition to Elder Law. They can provide legal assistance to special needs clients and their families in protecting assets while retaining eligibility for government benefits.

Their attorneys are licensed in Ohio, Florida, New York and North Carolina.

A law firm based on the east side of Cleveland. They offer expanded legal services in a variety of areas, including estate planning, probate and trust administration.

Their Estate Planning partner, Gina Ciani, has a particular expertise in special needs trusts/planning.

New rules to bring uniformity and consistency to Ohio’s adult guardianship practices became effective June 1, 2015. This document defines those changes.

Tho office of the Attorney General created this guide to reduce confusion surrounding guardianships in Ohio so that individuals are better equipped to serve as guardians or protect relatives under guardianship.

Reminger has 30 practice groups that span litigation, estate planning and probate matters, business and transactional law. They have offices throughout Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana.

Allison McMeechan has focused her practice on elder and special needs law, including estate and long term care planning, estate and trust administration, probate and guardianships. She serves as the Chair of Reminger’s Elder Law and Special Needs Planning practice group.

Services include:
Elder Law
Special Needs Planning
Estate Planning
Medicaid Planning and Applications
Guardianship
Estate and Trust Administration

Ms. Buzney is also a Licensed Independent Social Worker with extensive experience working with elderly and chronically ill individuals and their families.

Law offices in Mayfield Heights, Independence and Westlake, OH

Offers elder law, probate, trusts and estate administration, disability law, guardianship

A law firm that specializes in Elder Law, wills and trusts, guardianships and life care planning. They have offices in both Pepper Pike and Cleveland, Ohio.

All people have a right to self-determination. Knowledge supports and encourages that right. Disability Rights Ohio hopes that the information contained in this online publication will help to strengthen the practical, day-to-day exercise of the right to self-determination for all people with disabilities.