About
Compassion. Knowledge. Tenacity. These are words used to explain Colleen’s work in advocating for people with disabilities.
Having a cherished one with disabilities (or having disabilities your self) may be noticeably tough in approaches that most effective you recognize. It’s easy to get beaten. Colleen is familiar with - she has spent years operating with and advocating for folks that are challenged with disabilities.
Within 5 mins of meeting her, you’ll realize you’re in fantastic fingers. Her calm, kind, and knowledge demeanor will assure you which you’re operating with the proper character to make plans for your destiny.
Colleen can display you a way to use a Special Needs Trust to keep and enhance your nice of life, and to guard your cash so you can afford the care you want for the long run. She is aware of public blessings inside and out and can manual you through the eligibility technique in a way that gained’t jeopardize your eligibility for government benefits.
Before becoming a member of us, Colleen become with PLAN of CT in which she worked with households and their lawyers to decide the ideal believe type for the families’ given scenario. She additionally labored with the Connecticut State Department of Education in which she represented students in the care of the Connecticut Department of Children and Families (DCF). In this role, she endorsed for kids with unique training desires - submitting lawsuits, appearing file opinions, and speaking with various organizations and carriers.
In her spare time, Colleen enjoys the outdoors and regularly hikes and camps. She’s an avid reader and has been spending years seeking to train herself the French language.
What She Does:
-Special needs making plans
-Medicaid packages
-Public Benefits assessment and counsel - including Medicaid, country and federal Medicaid waiver applications, Money Follows the Person, and Community First Choice
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Location
Legal Issues
- Estate Planning
- Guardianship & Conservatorship, Health Care Directives, Trusts, Wills
- Elder Law
- Probate
- Probate Administration, Probate Litigation, Will Contests
- Special Needs Planning
- Medicaid & Public Benefits
- Disability Planning
Costs
Certificates
Languages
- English: Spoken, Written
Accepted Jurisdictions
Experience
- Associate
Czepiga Daly Pope & Perri LLC
2017 - Trust Coordinator
PLAN of Connecticut
2016 - Surrogate Parent
CT State Department of Education: Special Educational Law and Advocacy
2011 - Lawyer
Law Office of Gerry McMahon, LLC
2011 - Pro Bono Lawyer
Lawyers for Children America
2006
Educations
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Video Call/Chat Support
- FaceTime
- Skype
- GoToMeeting
