Their is so much involved when a lien is placed. Did you live with Mom and were her Caregiver for 2 yrs or more? If so, u maybe entitled to a Caregiver allowance where you can remain in the home but you must be able to pay the bills. Upon your death or living, the house will need to be sold to pay the lien. Were you a resident in the home for a number of years?
If you are selling the house, you need to sell it at Market Value. The Medicaid lien will be satisfied at time of closing.
If your Mom was on Medicaid (not Medicare) then a lien is put on her house (if she owns one) which needs to be satisfied by the next owner as part of MERP (Medicaid Estate Recovery Program). What is your question?
Wanda, your post doesn’t make sense. Pls do a an update on the details, especially as to whether this is MediCARE or MedicAID. And what you mean by “judgement”.
Imo the “judgement” doesn’t make sense. A judgement - if I’m not mistaken - means there was a lawsuit agreed an person; and the other side “won” and by a set $ amount that becomes a judgement placed on the person that defaulted. If you’re in a State that actually allows for a home that is owned by the person sued to actually have a judgement placed upon it, then a residence might can have a judgement for that set $ amount on it. Which affects its title as it’s cloudy so cannot easily transfer.
I’m NAL but I don’t think a judgement can happen on a deceased person, as they legally do not exist. This kinda means that a creditor has to deal with however claims (or liens) against an Estate Of asset has to - HAS TO - be done which is totally State specific. So is this actually a claim or a lien for an Estate? Then this goes to…. was there a will? an Executor named in that will? If so what has been done to establish probate in some way?? Or did they die without doing a will? OR… Are you actually referring to a MERP / Medicaid Estate Recovery Action and if so, is it a lien or is it a claim? Did the former POA or the Executor as per the will deal with answering the Notice of Intent and another other correspondence sent out by Medicaid or their outside contractor? Did they file exemptions or exclusions or other documents to deal with the recovery attempt? Dealing with estate Recovery will require the heirs to do responses to MERP in some way. Did anything like this happen by you or your family?
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Their is so much involved when a lien is placed. Did you live with Mom and were her Caregiver for 2 yrs or more? If so, u maybe entitled to a Caregiver allowance where you can remain in the home but you must be able to pay the bills. Upon your death or living, the house will need to be sold to pay the lien. Were you a resident in the home for a number of years?
If you are selling the house, you need to sell it at Market Value. The Medicaid lien will be satisfied at time of closing.
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Imo the “judgement” doesn’t make sense. A judgement - if I’m not mistaken - means there was a lawsuit agreed an person; and the other side “won” and by a set $ amount that becomes a judgement placed on the person that defaulted. If you’re in a State that actually allows for a home that is owned by the person sued to actually have a judgement placed upon it, then a residence might can have a judgement for that set $ amount on it. Which affects its title as it’s cloudy so cannot easily transfer.
I’m NAL but I don’t think a judgement can happen on a deceased person, as they legally do not exist. This kinda means that a creditor has to deal with however claims (or liens) against an Estate Of asset has to - HAS TO - be done which is totally State specific. So is this actually a claim or a lien for an Estate? Then this goes to…. was there a will? an Executor named in that will? If so what has been done to establish probate in some way?? Or did they die without doing a will?
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Are you actually referring to a MERP / Medicaid Estate Recovery Action and if so, is it a lien or is it a claim? Did the former POA or the Executor as per the will deal with answering the Notice of Intent and another other correspondence sent out by Medicaid or their outside contractor? Did they file exemptions or exclusions or other documents to deal with the recovery attempt? Dealing with estate Recovery will require the heirs to do responses to MERP in some way. Did anything like this happen by you or your family?