Janet L. Lowder
Principal
Email: jlowder@hickman-lowder.com

Practice Areas: Estate Planning; Estate Planning for the Disabled; Probate Law; Elder Law; Medicaid Planning; Estate Administration; Trust Administration; Guardianship; Guardianship Administration; Tax Planning; Probate Taxation; Mental Disability Law; Disabled Rights; Advance Directives; Medicaid Hearings; Probate Administration; Decedents Estates; Estate Planning for Parents of Handicapped Children; Estate Planning for the Elderly; Special Needs Trusts.

Admitted: 1992, Ohio and U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit; 1993, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Ohio

Law School: Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, J.D., summa cum laude, 1992

College: Baldwin-Wallace College, B.A., summa cum laude, 1973

Member: Cleveland (Member: Bar Admissions Committee, 1993-; Estate Planning, Probate and Trust Law Section), Ohio State (Chair, Elder Law Committee) and American Bar Associations; National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys; Special Needs Alliance.

Biography: Recipient: Banks Baldwin Co. Award; Delta Theta Phi Award; 2000 Top Hat Award, Cuyahoga County Board of MR/DD; Community Fund Management Foundation's 1999 Amicus Award. Listed in Best Lawyers in America in 2005, 2006 and 2007. One of top 50 female lawyers in Ohio in 2005 and 2006. Ohio Super Lawyer each year since 2004. Editor, Cleveland State Law Review, 1991-1992. Author: "The Role of a 'Medicaid Payback Trust' in Personal Injury Awards Granted to Disabled Persons," 8 Ohio Lawyer, 1994; "To Stay at Home: Analysis of Rights and Recommendations on Procedures for Persons Receiving Mental Health Services in The Community," 7 Journal of Law and Health, 1994; "New Protections for Persons with Mental Disabilities in the Workplace under the ADA," 40 Cleveland State Law Review,63 1992; "The Importance of Planning for the Future," 22 Journal of Long Term Health Care 235, 2004; "The Caregiver Balancing Act: Giving Too Much or Not Enough," 6 Care Management Journals 159, 2005; "The Growth in Pooled Trusts," The White Paper, Vol 2, No. 3 (Fall/Winter 1999), 9; "Crisis Intervention: A Handbook of Legal Procedures for Case Managers and Crisis Intervention: A Reference Manual of Legal Procedures for Case Managers," published by the Ohio Association of County Boards of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities, 1990. Contributing Author: The Encyclopedia of Women's Health, Springer Pub. 2004. Certified in Elder Law, National Elder Law Foundation. Founder and Of Counsel to Community Fund Management Foundation, a non-profit organization which provides the Master Trust and the Pooled Medicaid Payback Trust for individuals with disabilities.

Born: Cleveland, Ohio, October 4, 1952

ISLN: 901230711