In the past year, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has reached consent orders with two separate law firms resulting fines in excess of $4 million and regulations of their professional activities. This is despite the fact that the Dodd-Frank Act exempts the practice of law ...
Reversing a lower court, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit rules that a state housing authority cannot count distributions from a special needs trust funded by a settlement as income because the payments would not be considered income had the settlement been taken as a lump sum ...
A New Jersey appeals court determines that the caretaker child exception does not apply to a Medicaid applicant who transferred her house to her daughter because the daughter did not provide continuous care for the two years before the Medicaid applicant entered a nursing home. M.K. v ...
Joining the states of Florida, Ohio, and Tennessee, the Supreme Court of New Jersey has found that non-lawyers who apply the law to a Medicaid applicant’s specific circumstances are engaging in the unauthorized practice of law.
The state Supreme Court had received complaints that ...