NEW!
Financial planning - demystified for families!
The Special Needs Planning
Guide
How to Prepare for Every Stage of Your Child's Life
By John W. Nadworny, CFP®, ChFC & Cynthia R. Haddad,
CFP®
Help protect and improve the future lives of entire families
with this essential financial planning guide, ideal for
parents of a child with a disability and service providers
who support them. Developed by two financial planning experts
who also have family members with special needs, this one-of-a-kind
book is an absolute must-have as parents and other caregivers
plan for the lasting financial independence of their families.
Transforming the financial planning presentations they've
given to families across the country into a thorough, easy-to-read
resource, the well-known authors give parents a chronological
guide broken down into four critical life stages, so readers
can turn right to the section that applies to them. For
each stage from birth to adulthood, parents will get comprehensive
advice and strategies on how to address
- financial factors - including mortgages and other expenses,
insurance policies, investments, and savings
- legal factors such as conducting estate planning, weighing
guardianship with less restrictive alternatives, and creating
a Special Needs Trust to ensure a child's future
- government factors - identifying and supplementing
government benefits, such as residential services, supported
employment, and respite care
- family and support factors - such as the family's values,
the parents' careers, sibling considerations, and contributions
of extended family members
- emotional factors - such as dealing with both positive
and negative feelings, staying connected with others,
and using strong emotions to fuel advocacy
Included are all the tools families need to create an effective
action plan for their finances: planning checklists and
forms, a helpful glossary of financial terms, "planning
pointers" that help readers remember key points, and
extended case studies dramatizing other families' evolving
challenges and solutions. Plus, the CD-ROM
in the back of the book contains a helpful Financial Planning
Timeline and a printable Letter of Intent that lets parents
communicate key information, concerns, and desires to future
caretakers.
A book parents will use for the rest of their lives - and
a necessary addition to the reference library of every service
provider - The Special Needs Planning Guide
will awaken families' awareness about financial planning,
give them what they need to get it done, and help them turn
their dreams for their future into reality. To Order call
1-800-638-3775 (M-F, 8am -5pm), or
Price: $29.95 / Stock Number: 68028 / Publication Date:
April 2007 / 336 pages / 6 x 9 / paperback / ISBN 978-1-55766-802-8
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