For two decades, Bessenyey & Van Tuyn has provided expert legal services in Alaska. The lawyers of Bessenyey & Van Tuyn stand ready to use their substantial experience to help you on your important Elder, Environmental, Energy, and Administrative Law matters.
The firm’s Elder Law Practice is led by founding partner Ilona Bessenyey. The Elder Law Practice helps clients with all aspects of estate planning and health care planning, including wills and trusts, powers of attorney, advance health care directives, long-term-care, and Medicaid.
The firm’s Environmental and Administrative Law Practice is led by founding partner Peter Van Tuyn, and includes attorneys Teresa Clemmer, Karen Schmidt, and Jen Marlow. With over 60 years of collective experience in federal and state court litigation, as well as representation of clients before federal, state, and local administrative agencies and legislative branches, we are vigorous advocates in pursuit of our clients’ goals.
Bessenyey & Van Tuyn attorneys have received Best Lawyer and Super Lawyer recognition, and the firm has received Best Law Firm recognition from U.S. News & World Report in the areas of Litigation (Environmental), Environmental Law, and Natural Resource Law. We would be happy to provide you with effective and efficient legal representation to assist you in achieving your goals.
The firm's Elder Law Practice is led by founding partner Ilona Bessenyey. The Elder Law Practice helps clients with all aspects of estate planning and health care planning, including wills and trusts, powers of attorney, advance health care directives, long-term-care, and Medicaid.
Elder law is a specialized area of law defined more by the client being served than by a particular issue. The client is generally a senior or the senior’s family. Elder law combines aspects of long term care planning, Medicaid planning, preparation of wills and trusts, advance health care directives, and powers of attorney.
Estate planning is planning which permits an individual to retain control over their assets during their lifetime, plan for their own incapacity, and plan for their loved ones. Proper planning with an experienced attorney assures that the right tools are used to keep you in control of you assets for as long as possible.
Long term care planning explores the options available to clients to meet their long term care needs. For some clients the planning focuses on Medicaid, a state-federal program available to pay for nursing home and assisted living care costs. For other clients, the planning may focus on aging in place, a concept that permits seniors to remain in their own homes for as long as possible. Under either set of options, long term care planning with an attorney experienced in this area gives a client the peace of mind that their needs will be met, financially, emotionally and physically as they age.
