Anyway, if you’re interested in doing a deep dive on this issue, you’ll want to read Thoughts on Supporting Healthy Dependents Using Funds From a Disabled Parent’s or Spouse’s Special Needs Trust, by Florida special needs trust guru David Lillesand. [read post]

IRC section 130 allows a qualified assignment to be made by a "party to the suit or agreement" having liability to the plaintiff; According to Campbell, plaintiffs and their advisors are increasingly upset with traditional defense-controlled structured settlements; Campbell confirms SSI and Medicaid as injury victim settlement planning priorities (as earlier espoused and explained by David Lillesand), the need to link structured settlements to SSI and Medicaid… [read post]