{"id":11649,"date":"2026-05-30T23:24:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T06:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/?p=11649"},"modified":"2026-05-30T23:24:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T06:24:00","slug":"funeral-trust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2026\/05\/30\/funeral-trust\/","title":{"rendered":"Funeral Trust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If your loved one is in a nursing home and may outlive their savings, find a funeral home that will let them prepay their funeral expenses, putting the money into an irrevocable trust. Medicaid won&#8217;t see that money, leaving enough money for the family to perform a proper service.<\/p>\n<p>All County Funeral Home in Florida, an excellent, no nonsense place, offered that to us for about $100 in paperwork cost. Two far fancier funeral homes, Cochran Funeral Home in New Jersey and Aycock Funeral Home in Florida had never heard of such a service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If your loved one is in a nursing home and may outlive their savings, find a funeral home that will let them prepay their funeral expenses, putting the money into an irrevocable trust. Medicaid won&#8217;t see that money, leaving enough money for the family to perform a proper service. All County Funeral Home in Florida, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11649"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11650,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11649\/revisions\/11650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}