Kubik Legal encourages their Clients to become more involved with resolving their own legal issues. We’ve listed some online resources to help you with this. These are for general guidance only! For specific cases, please book a free 30-minute initial consultation and let’s connect. Check back often as this list will only grow!
Calculators
1. An Indiana Medicaid Penalty Period Calculator. An interactive calculator that estimates how long an Indiana resident must privately pay for nursing home care before Medicaid benefits begin, based on asset transfers made within the five-year look-back period.
2. An Indiana Community Spouse Resource Allowance Calculator. This interactive calculator helps estimate how much of a married couple’s assets an at-home spouse is entitled to keep under Indiana law when the other spouse applies for Medicaid long-term care benefits.
- Wills, Trusts, and Beyond: How to Truly Secure Your Future. This is a 14 minute video where I walk you through the two pillars to consider in a complete inheritance and asset protection plan.
- A Walkthrough of an Indiana Medicaid Penalty Period Calculator. This 6 minute video explains our penalty period calculator, and walks you through how to use it.
Articles
1. What NOT to do after a loved one has passed. There is a lot you can do before picking up the phone and calling an attorney. This is a short list of what NOT to do after a loved one has passed.
2. What is the difference between a financial advisor and an estate planning attorney? You may have seen advertisements for both. Here’s a high-level view of the differences between the two.
3. What is the difference between a will and a trust? Despite what we see on TV, a will is not the best and only choice for estate planning. Learn the differences between the two in this resource.
Online Legal Cases Look-ups
- MyCase allows you to look up non-confidential Indiana legal cases. https://public.courts.in.gov/mycase/#/vw/Search
- Cook County, Illinois has their own legal case look-up site: https://casesearch.cookcountyclerkofcourt.org/
- Will County, Illinois has their own legal case look-up site: https://iattorney.il12th.org/
Websites that High-Level Educational Information
(Note, these sites should not be claiming to provide you with legal advice. Only licensed attorneys are allowed to do that.)
- Illinois Legal Aid Online: https://www.illinoislegalaid.org/
- AI platforms like ChatGPT (https://chatgpt.com/), Claude (https://claude.ai) and others can be used if you have questions. If you have not actually tried using AI in this way, we encourage you to do so. Be warned that these sites may produce results that are not correct (often called “hallucinations”). But we encourage you to dive into the use of AI, and when we meet, our legal experts will correct and clarify what you have learned from this ever growing technology.
If you’d like to see other resources on this page, email Sara Kubik at info@kubiklegal.com and let her know your thoughts!