{"id":5155,"date":"2016-09-07T21:50:30","date_gmt":"2016-09-07T21:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.racinelaw.net\/?p=5155"},"modified":"2019-12-18T14:09:00","modified_gmt":"2019-12-18T21:09:00","slug":"is-it-a-gift-or-an-advancement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinelaw.net\/blog\/is-it-a-gift-or-an-advancement\/","title":{"rendered":"Is it a Gift or an Advancement?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"LTR\" align=\"JUSTIFY\">By Matthew Stucki<\/p>\n<p dir=\"LTR\" align=\"JUSTIFY\">Recently I have seen an increase in clients that come to my office and declare that they have made a gift to one or more of their children as part of their Medicaid planning or for some other reason. However, in most of these cases, the individual that has made the gift has not considered the potential conflict the gift may cause among their children.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"LTR\" align=\"JUSTIFY\">In Idaho, &#8220;if a person dies intestate as to all his estate, property which he gave in his lifetime to an heir is treated as an advancement against the latter&#8217;s share of the estate only if declared in a contemporaneous writing by the decedent or acknowledged in writing by the heir to be an advancement.&#8221; Idaho Code \u00a7 15-2-110<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.racinelaw.net\/blog\/is-it-a-gift-or-an-advancement\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Is it a Gift or an Advancement?\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Matthew Stucki Recently I have seen an increase in clients that come to my office and declare that they have made a gift to one or more of their children as part of their Medicaid planning or for some other reason. 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