Home stewardship
Take the season quiz before any paperwork.
Crisis path
Don’t move title. Talk to an elder-law attorney now.
If nursing-home or long-term Medicaid is already needed — or likely inside five years — this app will not generate a transfer packet. A gift or bargain transfer inside the look-back can delay the very care the family is trying to reach.
What to do this week
- Leave the deed alone until counsel says otherwise.
- Call a NAELA elder-law attorney, or Georgia Legal Services if money is tight.
- Bring a deed copy, a list of who lives in the home, and any Medicaid notices.
- Sit with the family. This is a hard week. You do not have to solve it from a website.
- Georgia Medicaid Estate Recovery
- DCH rules, Chapter 111-3-8
- Find a NAELA elder-law attorney
- Georgia Legal Services Program
Education, not legal advice. Porchlight does not practice law and does not promise a Medicaid result. A supervising Georgia elder-law attorney reviews facts before anything is signed or recorded.