Rhiannon Ketola
Elder law and Medicaid planning
Rhiannon leads the firm's elder law work: the questions about care, cost and what a spouse at home may keep.
She came to elder law after helping her own mother through a nursing home admission. Most of her clients are adult children who have never read a Medicaid notice and have a deadline in it. She is plain about what is possible and about what isn't.
Outside the office she answers questions at a couple of the area's senior center groups, without a sign-up sheet.
Focus
- Medicaid and long-term care
- Veterans' aid and attendance benefits
- Spousal protections
- Medicaid appeals
Credentials
Bar admissions
State Bar of Michigan
1992
U.S. District Court, Western District of Michigan
1994
Courts
Probate courts in Grand Traverse, Leelanau and Benzie counties
Michigan Court of Appeals
Education
J.D., Wayne State University Law School
1992
B.A., Michigan State University
1989
Languages
English
Memberships
Elder law section of the state bar
Local county bar association
How Rhiannon works
She begins with a one-page picture of what the person owns, owes and earns, built together at the first meeting. Everything else is easier to explain once that page exists.
She writes to families after every meeting, in plain sentences, with the next two or three steps and who is doing each.
Ask for Rhiannon by name
Say which of us you'd like to meet when you book, and we'll set up the first meeting with Rhiannon.