Jennifer and Jeff Hawkins help married couples, elderly individuals, and their families find legal solutions to protect their assets from long-term health care costs so they can sleep at night. The State of Indiana says the average nursing home care cost is over $89,000 per year. We help nursing home residents and their families plan and qualify for Medicaid assistance to pay long-term care costs.
We also help people plan ahead to protect assets from future of nursing home care costs. Multi-generation plans can protect farmland and other business assets from crisis sales. We help farmers and small business owners protect business assets with business succession plans. We also guide clients in business purchase and sale negotiations. Jennifer and Jeff married during their fourth year at Indiana University in Bloomington, where Jennifer studied music education in the Jacobs School of Music, and Jeff studied corporate finance in the Kelly School of Business. The couple graduated from Indiana University in 1988 and received their Juris Doctor (JD) degrees from the University of Louisville’s Louis D. The Hawkins were admitted to practice law in Indiana in 1992, and Jeff was admitted to practice law in Illinois in 2012. The Hawkins are Indiana’s only married couple composed of Board Certified Indiana Trust & Estate Lawyers, certified by the Trust & Estate Specialty Board. They are also active members of the Indiana State Bar Association (ISBA) Probate, Trust & Real Property (PTRP) Section and Elder Law Section, and the Indiana Chapter of the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys (NAELA). The couple serves on the PTRP’s Probate Review Committee, which evaluates and writes most of Indiana’s laws concerning estate planning, administration of estates, trusts, and guardianships, and almost everything imaginable about land use and land ownership. Jeff Hawkins is an ISBA Past President and a Past Chair of the PTRP Section. Jeff is a Fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel and a Fellow of the Indiana Bar Foundation. He is also a member of the Illinois NAELA Chapter; the Illinois State Bar Association’s Business Advice and Financial Planning, Elder Law, Real Estate Law, and Trusts and Estates Sections; and the ISBA’s Agricultural Law, Business Law, and Solo, Small firm & General Practice Sections. Jennifer and Jeff are members of the Terre Haute Bar Association and the Sullivan County Bar Association. Jennifer is the Treasurer of the Sullivan County Bar Association
