Nicholas Halbur, Attorney & Counselor at Law
Phone/Fax: 402-330-3060, ext. 117
General Practice including but not limited to:
Estate Planning | Probate | Elder Law
Attorney Nicholas Halbur is a 2006 graduate of the University of St. Thomas School of Law and a 2003 graduate of Creighton University. After law school, Nick spent several years as the supervising attorney for the Elder Law Practice Group of the Interprofessional Center for Counseling and Legal Services at the University of St. Thomas, where he was responsible for representing clients, supervising student case work, classroom teaching, and caseload management. The clinic’s focus was on the rights and legal issues confronting people in need of long term care. The focus of Nick’s work at Thompson Law Office is on estate planning, probate, and elder law services. Nick, along with his wife and daughter, moved back to Omaha in March of 2011. Nick grew up in Carroll, Iowa and his wife, Joanna, is an Omaha native.
Secretary and Treasurer for the Elder Law Section of the Nebraska State Bar Association
Public Advocacy for Vulnerable and Elderly Victims of Financial Exploitation
“Private Recovery Against Financial Exploiters” CLE, “Special Feature” at the 2008 Minnesota Elder Law Institute.
Member of the Vulnerable Adult Justice Project, a policy reform stakeholder group that works to improve public policy to protect vulnerable Minnesotans.
Assisted in drafting a private right of action for victims, Minn. Stat. § 626.557, Subd. 20.
Minnesota State Bar Association Elder Law Section
E-Newsletter article “You Can Use a MA Recipient’s Income for Pre-Eligibility Medical Expenses” June 30, 2009.
Lead efforts to promote public input and access to Minnesota’s Medicaid State Plan.
“Elder Facility Admissions Agreements: What are We Signing?” Panelist at the 2010 Elder Law Institute session and author of materials on Responsible Party Agreements.
Law Review Article
“A Ticking Time Bomb? University Data Privacy Policies and Attorney-Client Confidentiality in Law School Settings”, co-authored with Gregory C. Sisk, Orestes A. Brownson Professor of Law, University of St. Thomas (forthcoming, Utah Law Review 2011).
When and how to ask a court to change the amount of child support you must pay, or the amount you receive. Many people these days are having trouble either making child support payments or caring for their children on their existing child support because of a change in their work or living situation. If…
Continue Reading »How foreclosure procedures work, in both judicial and nonjudicial foreclosure states. Foreclosure happens when you fall behind on your house payments and your lender uses state procedures to sell your house. Foreclosure works differently in different states. In some states, the lender has to file a lawsuit to foreclose (judicial foreclosure), while in others, it…
Continue Reading »Learn what it can mean to be separated instead of divorced. Many people are confused about what is meant by “separated” — and it’s no wonder, given that there are four different kinds of separations. However, how a couple is separated can have important affects on property ownership: Trial separation. When a couple lives apart…
Continue Reading »Challenge a foreclosure by bringing a defense such as unconscionability or lender mistake. // // ]]>Until recently, successful defenses against foreclosure were relatively rare. But that is changing rapidly — more homeowners are successfully challenging foreclosure actions. This sea change is due, in large part, to the unearthing of more and more evidence that the…
Continue Reading »Regularly, we notice that there is no continuity in how landlords and property managers draft or serve a Three-Day Notice to Quit for failure to pay rent on a tenant. Some post the Notice on the tenant’s door. Others post the Notice on the door and mail a copy to the tenant. Then there are…
Continue Reading »A client was fired from her job after she complained about sexual harassment by a supervisor. We negotiated a settlement with her employer. Learn more.
Continue Reading »Bringing practical advice and passionate advocacy to your community, home or office. View the Mobile Unit’s schedule to see when it may be near your community! We strongly believe that everyone deserves the same access to professional legal counsel, no matter where you may live or work. Thompson Law Office’s Mobile Unit serves clients throughout…
Continue Reading »Legal and financial matters to consider when caring for an elder. // // ]]> As Americans live increasingly longer lives, many require ongoing, long-term care. This care often falls to grown children — men and women who are in their forties, fifties, and sixties and busy with careers or perhaps children of their own. Getting…
Continue Reading »More and more seniors and their families are confronting the need to find quality long term care (aka LTC, in a nursing home, assisted living, or even a person’s own home) and a reliable source to pay for that care. The Medicaid program, “the insurer of last resort,” in America’s health care market will pay…
Continue Reading »Attorney Nick Halbur visited Walnut Grove Retirement Community on Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2011 to speak about his work as an Elder Law attorney. He spoke about legal solutions for confronting incapacity and dementia, such as Power of Attorney documents, Guardianships, and Conservatorships. He also discussed a number of long term care issues including Medicare and Medicaid coverage…
Continue Reading »What to do if you suspect a senior is being abused in a nursing home. Nursing homes are a place where seniors and the elderly should be safe. Unfortunately, a significant number of nursing homes abuse their residents in some way — from physical abuse to stealing money to illegally restricting activity (false imprisonment). If…
Continue Reading »It’s rare, but courts can toss out a will if it doesn’t meet certain requirements. // // ]]> Will challenges are very unusual — by one estimate, about 99% of wills sail through probate without a hitch — but they do happen. If a will doesn’t fulfill certain legal requirements, or the maker of the…
Continue Reading »Here’s how to help an elderly loved one make a financial or medical power of attorney. Powers of attorney can bring peace of mind to both elders and their caretakers. Powers of attorney allow elders to empower a trusted person to make decisions about health care and fiances on their behalf. Having such powers in…
Continue Reading »Access life insurance, annuity funds, and social security benefits. // // ]]> Beneficiaries need to know how to collect life insurance and Social Security payments that belonged to the deceased; the executor of the estate doesn’t usually handle this task. When someone dies, family members who depended on the deceased person for financial support may…
Continue Reading »How surviving family members can get all available benefits after a loved one dies. // // ]]> After the death of a loved one, the executor or surviving family members should review the deceased person’s papers to see if there are any benefits that may be available to the survivors. The surviving family members may…
Continue Reading »On July 28 I was the guest speaker for a Caregiver support group for family and friends of individuals suffering from dementia. The group is organized through the Midlands Chapter of the Alzheimer’s Association. I spoke about the coverage of Long-Term Care by the Medicaid system. Though Medicaid is a need-based system, more and more…
Continue Reading »Choose a personal guardian — someone to raise your children in the unlikely event you can’t. If your children are young, you’ve probably thought about who would raise them if for some reason you or another parent couldn’t. It’s not an easy thing to consider, but with a simple arrangement of a guardian in your…
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Attorney Nicholas Halbur spent several years as the supervising attorney for the Elder Law Practice Group of the Interprofessional Center for Counseling and Legal Services at the University of St. Thomas. The clinic’s focus was on the rights and legal issues confronting people in need of long term care. The focus of Nick’s work at Thompson Law Office is on estate planning, probate, and elder law services.Read More About Nick »
