Tag: 3.3.25 Life estates

DHA Case No. MDV 45/86382 (Wis. Div. of Hearings and Appeals November 19, 2007) (DHS)  ↓ Download PDF Issue 1: Caretaker child The caretaker child exception allows an institutionalized person to transfer homestead property to a child who lived with the person and provided care for at least two years. In this case, the petitioner […] Read more

DHA Case No. MDV-36/46674 (Wis. Div. Hearings and Appeals Nov. 21, 2000) (DHS)  ↓ Download PDF When a person, or another acting on the person’s behalf, acts to transfer property such as a life estate without receiving fair market value in return, it is a divestment. But what if the transfer happens automatically, because of […] Read more