Practice Area Overview

Western Pennsylvania Elder Law Attorneys

Sikov and Love, P.A. is available to assist you and your family with all of the legal issues that come with growing older. Attorney Carol Sikov Gross is one of the few Certified Elder Law Attorneys in Western Pennsylvania. This distinction represents the level of experience and dedication we provide to our clients. Please contact a lawyer from our firm to arrange a consultation in any of the following practice areas:

Elder Law: Our firm offers comprehensive elder law services designed to address the many issues related to finances, long term care, health, and planning for the future.
Long Term Care and Nursing Home Planning: Nursing home care in Pennsylvania is expensive, costing approximately $7,000.00 a month on average. In-home care can be even more costly. We can help you plan how to pay for long term care or how to get government benefits to pay, as well as for the possibility of nursing home care in the future.
Medicaid Planning and Medical Assistance: We can help you prepare an appropriate plan based upon your specific financial situation. With Medicaid planning, it may be possible to obtain funds from the state and federal government to pay for long term care.
Estate Planning - Wills, Trusts, Powers of Attorney, and Living Wills: Our firm offers a full range of estate planning services designed to help you plan for the future, protect your assets, and ensure your wishes are followed.
Probate and Estate Administration: We represent clients in handling the large and small estates or trusts of deceased individuals so that matters can be dealt with in a timely fashion to save taxes and get funds to heirs.
Special Needs Planning and Special Needs Trusts: Our firm can help you plan for the special needs person in your life and make it possible for a special needs person to maintain government benefits while receiving funds from a special needs trust.
Elderly in Crisis: Our firm responds to a variety of crisis situations. These situations can include a family member in a hospital who has been told he or she cannot go home again or how to protect funds for a wife whose husband has just gone into a nursing home after a medical emergency.
Orphans’ Court Litigation: We represent clients in contested probate or estate matters as well as litigation involving abuses of powers of attorney, will or trust contests and removal of fiduciaries.
Guardianships: Guardianships can be established for special needs individuals and elderly individuals who are incapacitated due to conditions such as dementia or Alzheimer's disease.

Please contact Sikov and Love, P.A. to learn how we can help you and your family.