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Janet Colliton has practiced law for over 28 years, 27 of them in
Chester County, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia. Her
practice, Colliton Law Associates, PC, is limited to elder law, Medicaid,
including advice, applications, and appeals, retirement, disability, and
estate planning. She practices in
all of the suburban Philadelphia counties including Chester County, Delaware
County, and Lancaster counties and, in conjunction with a related business,
Life Transition Services, LLC, headed
by Jeffrey M. Jones, Certified Senior Advisor, provides comprehensive
support for the elderly, their spouses and their families as they
transition from independent living to assisted living or long term
care. Special focus is placed on
helping spouses to survive financially while their spouse is receiving long
term care.
Janet Colliton was
elected twice to the Board of Directors of the Chester County Bar
Association and is currently Chair of the Elder Law Section of the Chester
County Bar, in which capacity she has served for the past three years. She is a member of the National Academy
of Elder Law Attorneys and of the Pennsylvania Bar Association Elder Law
Section.
Ms. Colliton is
co-author, with Jerry A. Hyman, Esq. of The
Medicaid Program: Interstate
Planning Opportunities in Pennsylvania and Delaware, published
by Half Moon, LLC, Eau
Clair, Wisconsin, 2004 and author of the Social Security, Medicare
and Medicaid sections of The Chester
County Guide for Senior Citizens
and Their Families. She has
lectured extensively on elder law topics including financing of long term
care and incorporating long term disability in estate planning.
For the past 9 ˝ years,
Ms. Colliton has authored a weekly newspaper column, “Planning Ahead” on
senior planning issues in West Chester’s Daily Local News, totaling
over 400 columns on subjects such as Social Security, Long Term Care
Insurance, Medicare Health Insurance Supplements, and Medicaid
applications.
Janet Colliton is a
graduate of Chestnut Hill College (1969) and Temple University School of Law (JD,
Class of 1977) and has background in public and private practice. Before establishing her private
practice, Ms. Colliton was First Assistant County Solicitor for Chester County, Pennsylvania where she supervised counsel for Department of
Aging, Mental Health/ Mental Retardation and other County social service
agencies. She also served as a
Hearing Examiner for the Pennsylvania State Employees Retirement Service
(SERS). She is a former Board
President of the YWCA of Greater West Chester and lives in the West Chester area with her daughter.
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