If my mother goes into a nursing home, how can she protect her home from having to be sold to pay for the nursing home after she passes. She lives in TX.
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You can do this by paying for the nursing home while she is alive.
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If this is the only source of income your mother has for paying for the nursing home, then its a common practice to pay the bill. Signing the home over is really the only way, if other family members cannot provide the money.
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Have her put the home in your name or have her sell it to you for little maybe $500. then It is protected.
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Each state's laws are different, but there is generally what is known as a lookback period. She simply can't gift the house away or put it in a trust without dealing with the lookback. In PA it is five years, meaning that the state will look back five years for the disposition of any assets and assume those assets are still available before nursing home funding would be available.
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