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the website of Lisa Nachmias Davis, Attorney at law
ELDER LAW LINKS
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This page 2 updated (partly) November 30, 2009
SITE SEARCH
GENERAL LEGAL RESEARCH RESOURCES and other useful tools Return to Page Index
(in alphabetical order)
Google scholar!
Now GOOGLE has a search engine for legal research. Quoting the ABA Journal, "Case law goes back about 80 years for federal cases and more than 50 years for state cases, according to Information Today Inc. The opinions will have “cited by” and “related articles” links that take readers to other opinions and articles that will help them understand the information. But there is no citator service that flags when an opinion is overruled or called into question." CBA Law Links (public)
The CBA's legal links are now better organized and so far as I can tell, all public. Catalaw A "metaindex" of law and government (worldwide). Chesslaw Peculiar site apparently inspired by a love of chess but this is a really hand-dandy one-page listing of links to laws in all 50 states. Like a condensed Findlaw with NO ADS. Cornell University Law School's "Legal Information Institute" Seminal site. Direct links to court decisions -- NONCOMMERCIAL and therefore may be easier to deal with than findlaw -- no advertising. FindLaw Comprehensive source of legal information, including searchable U.S. Supreme Court Decisions. CAUTION. STATUTES ON FINDLAW ARE NOT ALWAYS CUFRENT. Freedomlaw Contains a wealth of information to online legal research with very useful evaluation as to dates covered, etc. - included as part of a "self-help legal clinic" with an emphatically Libertarian message, however Hieros Gamos A "comprehensive law and government portal" sponsored by Lex Mundi, an association of law firms. Includes international law. Indiana University's "Virtual Law Library" "In 1992, Indiana University School of Law—Bloomington was chosen by CERN, originators of the World Wide Web Consortium, to be the host of the Virtual Library. The World Wide Web Virtual Library is a collection of subject related Websites maintained by institutions throughout the world, each administering a different subject. The project is now managed by a independent committee made up of maintainers of various subject areas." Once again we can thank Cornell University for bringing information to the public -- including the writers of law review articles -- gratis. Seems very thorough although whether it would comply with the latest Blue Book requirements I cannot verify. Law Guru A general source of state and federal law. Legalbitstream Comprehensive TAX law research. Indispensable. mappy.com - far and away the most detailed for international locations
maps.google.com (looks cool and neat and you can just move anyplace with the cursor - no need to reload) - and now can be overlain with satellite photos
mapquest.com (the current standard, but beware in remote areas)
mapsonus.com (lots of customization available; the biggest maps you can get, but not much subtlety in resolution options)
multimap.com (includes International maps) - "online maps to everywhere"
earth.google.com -- not exactly maps but my son would never forgive me for omitting this!!! download the cool software -- "the world's geographical information at your fingertips."Tim Takacs' Bookmarks Now-outdated collection of Elder Law websites by Tim Takacs. This is on Tim's "old" website -- his official website is consumer-friendly and full of useful advice for clients, but doesn't have the lawyer-friendly stuff. My guess is that some point this will go off-line entirely. I can appreciate how hard it is to maintain a list of links! babelfish -- the original. This can be very funny if you translate poetry, but helpful if you just don't have the vocabulary
translate.google.com -- is there anything they can't do? Why didn't I invest in Google?
SELECTED SEARCH ENGINES Return to Page IndexELDER LAW RESOURCES -- OTHER STATES Return to Page Index
(in alphabetical order)
 Cornell: state statutes |
50 states' statutes SORTED BY SUBJECT!!! |
| Cornell: other state case library |
Don't forget the Cornell University law library as a resource for other state information |
| CCH financial planning website |
Contains interactive map - you click to find out about estate/death taxes in each state!! Seems quite current. |
| CA law: CANHR | California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform (has MMNA figures etc. for "Medical") |
| FLA law: | Website of Attorney A. Lipman - "Snowbird" guide |
| MA law: MANAELA | Now somewhat
stale
(2004) site of the Massachusetts chapter of NAELA. No
legal links, but consumer-directed articles do
include things like State Supplement rates and other factual information, and
there is a page with "key numbers" (Massachusetts uses a
transfer divisor per day rather than monthly.)
Members-only listserv is available. |
| NY law, various: | NY firm
Goldfarb & Abrandt's page, www.seniorlaw.com. Get updated NY 2006 penalty rates and other great quantities of NY Medicaid information from the state website or view other NY state publications. |
| NY law: Brookdale Center on Aging | Hunter College, City University of New York Site. Provides list of of Brookdale publications (numerous brochures and studies on gerontological issues, comprehensive information on New York Elder Law issues) available for purchase. |
| NY Surrogates Court | Surrogate court forms; To search Surrogates Court site |
| NYS Partnership for Long-Term Care | 2006 map of New York nursing home rates by region. Useful because even if you find out the region's "average monthly cost of care," this helps the out-of-state reader figure out which regional rate applies, because it shows the actual counties. |
| Elderweb.com | Articles on numerous topics but includes thematic maps showing percentage of households with someone age 65+ for each county using year 2000 census data. Map showing nursing home rates nationally seems to have disappeared. |
| FLTCIP | Federal Long-Term Care Insurance Program -- the "secure" page (https://) includes a tool to give you the cost of care in your region. Click here. If that doesn't work, go to the https:// link for the home, click on Frequently Asked Questions, then "basics," then "is long-term care expensive" (#4) then click on "cost of care in your area." |
| State-by-State Medicaid penalties | For historical perspective: click to see a listing of "divisors" for purposes of computing penalty periods -- current to early 2004. From the Elder Law Answer Book 2nd edition, 2004 supplement, Robert Fleming and Lisa Davis authors. Bad formatting!! :) Similarly: the members-only section of www.naela.org,may still have Dale Krause's information under "Medicaid desktop manuals" at the bottom left. Knowing penalty amounts is a lot less important post-DRA. |
| Ombudsmen | Comprehensive list of nursing home ombudsmen in all 50 states, from NCCNHR.. |
| Uniform Laws | Two sites: the official National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws (gets you to state's version of uniform act), and the U. Penn. Law School site that has more detailed history, drafts in progress, etc. |
| State estate taxes | "Center on Budget and Policy Priorities" article on "decoupling" state's estate taxes from the federal state death tax credit |
| State tax forms | Federation of Tax Administrators - tax forms for every state |
| Deed preparers | ABA Real Property, Probate & Trust Law Section list of attorneys willing to take deed preparation cases from out-of-state colleagues. |
| Other countries | Wake Forest University Elder Law Clinic site for elder law resources in other countries (Kate Mewhinney) |
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