Hinkle, Fingles & Prior, Attorneys at Law

Below is a collection of publications authored by partners and associates at Hinkle, Fingles & Prior, some in collaboration with authors and experts in the community and at advocacy organizations in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.

• Health Care Advocacy Across the Lifespan: What Parents of Children with Disabilities Need to Know
  An advocacy guide for parents to help them plan for and advocate effectively for health care services over their child with disabilities’ lifespan. Includes information about private and public health care insurance plans, rights and responsibilities, and appeal strategies and processes; © copyright Hinkle, Fingles & Prior, Attorneys at Law.
• Estate Planning: Preserving wealth for your beneficiaries, and ensuring that end-of-life decisions are carried out according to your wishes.
  A brochure describing the basics of estate planning; © copyright Hinkle, Fingles & Prior, Attorneys at Law.
• Changes to Your Child’s Special Education Program: What Parents Need to Know
  A brochure describing children with disabilities’ and parents’ basic rights and responsibilities related special education placements. Focuses on the “Stay Put” rule and what parents need to know when changes in special education placement are made; © copyright Hinkle, Fingles & Prior, Attorneys at Law.
• Legal Considerations in Planning for Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders: A Guide for Siblings and Other Caregivers, 2nd edition
  Provides a broad consideration of children’s and adult services, guardianship, estate planning, and other legal issues for siblings and other non-parental care-givers; © copyright Hinkle, Fingles & Prior, Attorneys at Law.
• Understanding Your Health Care Insurance and Appeal Rights
  In collaboration with Special Olympics New Jersey, Hinkle, Fingles & Prior has authored a new guide to help parents understand health coverage and appeal rights, and minimize financial responsibility. © copyright Hinkle, Fingles & Prior, Attorneys at Law.
• What Grandparents Can Do to Help Plan for the Future of a Grandchild with Disabilities
  A guide to help grandparents and other relatives make prudent decisions supporting their grandchildren with disabilities; © copyright Hinkle, Fingles & Prior, Attorneys at Law.
• Pennsylvania Guide to Planning for Siblings and Other Family Members (2nd Edition)
  Ira M. Fingles, Esq., and S. Paul Prior, Esq. have authored a guide for Pennsylvania siblings and other care givers who are planning for the future of their loved ones with disabilities; © copyright Hinkle, Fingles & Prior, Attorneys at Law.
• Planning the Transition from School to Adult Life
  Collaborating with ASAH, a not-for-profit organization of private schools and agencies in New Jersey, Herb Hinkle and Ira Fingles join Dorothy Van Horn, Executive Director of Brookfield Schools, in authoring this important new guide to transition services for students with disabilities; © copyright Hinkle, Fingles & Prior, Attorneys at Law.
• New Jersey Guide to Planning for Siblings and Other Family Members
  Collaborating with Planned Lifetime Assistance Network of New Jersey, Ira M. Fingles, Esq. and S. Paul Prior, Esq. have authored a guide for New Jersey siblings and other care givers who are concerned about how their siblings’ needs will be met after their parents are no longer able to care for them; © copyright Hinkle, Fingles & Prior, Attorneys at Law.
• High Court Clears Way for More Assistance
  Jonathan Tamari, Gannett State Bureau/Asbury Park Press: March 3, 2007
• Justices reject limits on aid to developmentally disabled
  Rick Hepp; Newark Star Ledger/nj.com; March 2, 2007.
• Community-Based Services and Supports for Adults with Intellectual Disabilities
  S. Paul Prior, Esq.; published for the Arc of New Jersey, copyright Hinkle, Fingles & Prior, Attorneys at Law; © copyright Hinkle, Fingles & Prior, Attorneys at Law.
• Herb Hinkle, Thirty Years of Legal Advocacy
  Jonathan Jaffe: Families, Spring 2006, published by the New Jersey Council on Developmental Disabilities
• Legal Considerations in Planning for Individuals with Disabilities: A Guide for Siblings
  S. Paul Prior, Esq. and Ira M. Fingles, Esq.; published for the Arc of New Jersey, copyright Hinkle, Fingles & Prior, Attorneys at Law; © copyright Hinkle, Fingles & Prior, Attorneys at Law.
• Adults with Autism: The COSAC (Now Autism NJ) Guide to Services and Supports in New Jersey
  Leslie Long, and Herbert D. Hinkle, Esq., published for the New Jersey Center for Outreach and Services to the Autism Community; © copyright Hinkle, Fingles & Prior, Attorneys at Law.

Forms & Other Resources

The following forms, produced by the New Jersey Department of Human Services’ Division of Developmental Disabilities, are required in order to apply for services and supports. The firm posts them here as a resource for families and professionals.

• Adaptive Behavior Summary.pdf
• Application for Services – Eligibility.pdf
• Disclosure of Health Information Authorization Form.pdf
• Fiscal Information Form.pdf
• Privacy Practices and Acknowledgment.pdf
• Request for Service Form.pdf

Other forms and sample documents:

• Sample Letter of Intent (pdf)