Estate Planning for Families With a Special Needs Child An outright inheritance can disrupt means-tested benefits for a person with disabilities. A properly designed special-needs trust may preserve funds for supplemental needs while protecting eligibility, but trust language and administration both matter. Estate-planning decisions affect control during life, the transfer of property at death, taxes, probate, and the people who may need to act during a crisis. A document that works in one family can create conflict in another because assets, beneficiary ages, marriages, debts, and ownership arrangements differ. This guide explains the general Ohio framework in plain language and identifies the records and decisions that usually matter most. In…