Los Angeles, California – May 17, 2010 – Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger unveiled plans last Friday to plug California’s budget deficit by slashing billions of dollars worth of funding for services designed to help the state’s poor. Schwarzenegger’s budget proposals would see spending cuts of 12.4 billion dollars including the elimination of California’s welfare-to-work program and [...]

We were tremendously impressed by the way Judd Matsunaga welcomed us and very patiently explained all of the detailed stipulations of a well prepared estate plan. He is very knowledgeable with all the details of the laws in California. We are so grateful for his expert opinions and professional approach in preparing our wills and [...]

Some people are able to pay for long-term care out of their own funds while others were able to get long-term care insurance before they became ill. Unfortunately, most people who need long-term care have already become ill and as a result can no longer obtain long-term care insurance. They are also unable to pay [...]

Medi-Cal Planning is about asset preservation. The high costs of nursing home care have been the cause of many middle-income families losing their homes and life savings. With Medi-Cal planning, those families could have preserved their major assets and could have had their nursing home bills paid for by Medi-Cal. Medi-Cal is California’s Medicaid health [...]

Medi-Cal is the California state version of  the joint federal-state program which provides health insurance coverage to low-income children, seniors and people with disabilities. Medi-Cal also covers the cost of nursing home care for those who qualify. In the absence of any other public program covering long-term care, Medi-Cal has become the default nursing home [...]

Judd Matsunaga is a Los Angeles based attorney and founding partner of Elder Law Services of California, a Professional Law Corporation. In addition to his legal practice, Mr. Matsunaga operates a full service real estate company as a Licensed Real Estate Broker – JM Properties. Mr. Matsunaga graduated from UCLA with a Bachelors of Science [...]

It was very important to us that Judd Matsunaga of Elder Law California was taking care of all our legal issues. It allowed me to take care of my husband, and that was my number one priority. We were very pleased with how he and his legal staff communicated with us. The good people at [...]

Judd Matsunaga and the attorneys at Elder Law Services were so good to me; they patiently explained everything and they took care of everything.   All that was left for me to do was follow Mr. Matsunaga’s simple instructions.  Mr. Matsunaga told me, “Go home and relax, take care of yourself.  Only think about how we [...]