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Updated County Contacts List

Nancy Hupp — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 17:54:07 +0000

Not all employees move on from their jobs like the Jet Blue flight attendant (swearing over the intercom, grabbing a beer, and going down an airplane escape slide) but alas, move on nonetheless. Hence the need to update the County Contacts list for medical assistance which we originally posted in June 2009. In some county listings, we’ve replaced the contact person who has moved on and in others, we’ve added to the number of contacts.

Users can quickly navigate to the county in question, find the name and contact information for the person(s) in charge of clearance certificates.

Thanks to Greg Lulic at the Minnesota Department of Human Services, the list is current (as of July 2010). Of course, lists such as these are moving targets, but we do our best to get them updated periodically.

Speaking of staying current, Alonna Warns, Hennepin County Probate Registrar, just sent out a couple of reminders:

Although DHS moved its offices a couple of years ago, apparently some attorneys are still mailing the Notice to the Commissioner to the old address. So take note:

Minnesota Dept. of Human Services
Attn: Special Recovery Unit/ Gregory Lulic
PO Box 64995
St Paul, MN. 55164-0995

The Affidavit(s) of Service to the Commissioner posted at practicelaw were revised some time ago to reflect the address change.

Dean Maus and George Borer will serve as part-time referees in the Fourth Judicial District Probate/Mental Health Court, filling the position left open by the retirement of long-time Referee Bruce Kruger.

Now if we just knew if Bret Favre was moving on…

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TODD Clearance Certificate

Nancy Hupp — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 18:13:03 +0000

Just released, the new Uniform Conveyancing Blank (UCB), 10.8.9 Clearance Certificate for Medical/Public Assistance Claim, Transfer on Death Deed, was approved by the Department of Commerce and posted this week on practicelaw.

Minnesota’s TODD legislation provides that a “Grantor Owner” may execute and record a TODD which then transfers title to the grantee upon the death of the Grantor Owner. Title is not marketable, however, until the grantee records certain documents, including a Certificate of Clearance showing that the property is free from medical assistance claims and liens. To promote a quicker turnaround from the county, a practitioner may submit a partially-completed Clearance Certificate along with the application. County personnel then complete the Certificate and return it, so it can be recorded.(...)
Read the rest of TODD Clearance Certificate (75 words)

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Ask and We Receive: County Clearance Certificate Contacts

Gregory Luce — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 15:27:22 +0000

Earlier, we promised to compile a list of contacts in the various counties of individuals responsible for issuing Medical Assistance Clearance Certificates, which are needed in descent proceedings and for Transfer on Death Deeds . As I wrote earlier, we tried to “crowdsource” this project to get volunteers to give us the information they had, which partially worked. Thanks to those who contributed – it was a nice way to try this experiment, which we will continue to try again in other ways.

Ultimately, though, at our prompting and after Julian Zweber kindly requested a contact list from DHS, we received one from them directly, and it is currently (though temporarily) housed here. We are thankful to Julian and to the DHS folks, namely Dale Klitzke and Greg Lulic, each of whom apparently went out of their way to update this list, knowing that it would be helpful to attorneys and the legal community.

That said, we plan to add this to the new practicelaw, which rolls out in mid to late July (stay tuned, we hope you will like it and may ask a small group of you to help us test it out soon). We will enhance the directory so that it is also more easily searched and indexed, making it quick to hone in on exactly the information you need.

Again, thanks to Julian, Dale, Greg, Nancy Hupp and Leslie Matton-Flynn at the MSBA, and all of you who volunteered information. Hope this is useful, and stay tuned as we enhance its future usability.

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