Robin L. Folts

PARTNER, CHAIR OF THE TRUSTS & ESTATES ELDER LAW PRACTICE GROUP, AND MEMBER OF THE LAW FIRM’S MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE

PRACTICE AREAS

ELDER LAW PLANNING

Robin provides elderly-community members with estate planning and Medicaid strategies that meet their individual economic goals. She takes pride in listening to their needs and matching those needs with a strategic plan for asset protection. Robin works closely with clients and their families to help create an attainable cost saving, efficient and effective plan. She strives to continually work with clients and their families to prevent unnecessary depletion of assets when faced with long-term-care costs. With Robin’s help, her colleagues successfully defended clients who were sued as a result of acting as Power of Attorney for family members. She is passionate in her representation of clients and is compassionate for their often debilitating ailments.

TRUSTS AND ESTATE SERVICES

Robin Folts provides sensible solutions to often complex problems though the use of testamentary trusts, irrevocable and revocable trusts along with other estate planning tools to formulate and implement testamentary plans.

CREDITORS' RIGHTS

Robin has experience in creditors’ rights issues and real estate. She previously worked for a buyer of commercial debt. While there, Robin broadened her skills in complex lender work-outs and traveled extensively to work out large commercial debts including selling real estate owned assets and other collateral located in the Continental United States, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Robin desires to continually create mechanisms for lender recovery of debtor obligations.

PROFESSIONAL & COMMUNITY AFFILIATIONS

Member of the New York State Bar Association, Elder Law Section
Member of the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys (NAELA)
Past President for the Irondequoit Rotary
Robin is a frequent lecturer on Elder Law issues as it pertains to asset protection, the lawful use of available governmental benefits and use of special governmental rates to reduce the depletion of assets due to long-term- care-costs, lawful transfers and post-Medicaid planning.
Guest speaker for the National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors, and has conducted many seminars across Western New York.
Guest speaker on the ROC Talk Radio show 102.7 Legends in Rochester on Medicaid issues.
Guest on “Ask the Expert” segments for the Finger Lakes News Radio, WGVA 96.1 FM/1240 AM speaking on the following topics:
- Estate Planning Overview
- Necessity of Proper Estate Planning Tools; Medicaid Overview
- Common Questions
- Medicaid and Real Estate Treatment
- Medicaid and Rehab/Medicare Coverage and its Impact on Medicaid
- Medicaid and Exempt Transfers
- Medicaid: When Both Spouses are Institutionalized
- Medicaid: Prior Gifts and Impacts; Nursing Homes and Debtor/Creditor Law
- Gift Tax/Annual Exclusion/Misnomers
- Medicaid & Revocable/IrrevocableTrusts
- Community Medicaid and Use of Pooled Trusts
- Medicaid: How IRAs and Other Income is Treated
- Guardianship Avoidance through Estate Planning
- Types of Assets that Can Delay Your Medicaid Plan
- Right of Election and Impact on Medicaid
- Top 10 Tips when Preparing to Apply for Chronic Care Medicaid
- Rehab, When the Hospital Does Not Admit a Patient and the Impact for Nursing
- Home Placement
- The Beauty of a Life Estate and Pitfalls
- Estate Planning and Second Marriages

Education

Thomas M. Cooley Law School (J.D., cum laude with Business Transactions Concentration)

ADMISSIONS

New York State Bar

HONORS

Robin received inclusion in the Super Lawyers list as an Upstate New York Rising Star from 2013-2020. Super Lawyers is a rating service of outstanding lawyers from more than 70 practice areas who have attained a high-degree of peer recognition and professional achievement.

Robin has also been included in the 2021, 2022, 2023 Editions of The Best Lawyers in America for Elder Law.

See the Super Lawyers and Best Lawyers websites for a description of the selection methodology. Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome.

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