Your state’s pack. New issues arrive periodically on Mondays. Bookmark it. I built this for the Idaho T&E solo who knows the Uniform Probate Code (Idaho Code Title 15) cold but still loses an afternoon a week hunting the current homestead number, the Aged & Disabled Waiver (Idaho Medicaid, run by DHW) slot posture, whether the latest Idaho bar ethics opinion changes how you scope an engagement, or whether a recent Idaho Court of Appeals decision just moved the law on capacity, undue influence, or a trustee’s duties. What’s below is what mattered in Idaho lately — the week’s developments and the recent rulings from the bench.
For licensed attorneys. This pack is general legal information and professional commentary for practicing attorneys — it is not legal advice, does not apply to any specific matter, and creates no attorney-client relationship. Verify every authority against the cited primary source before relying on it with a client. Published by Mike Moss, a Utah-admitted attorney, as an AI-enablement information product; it is not an offer of legal services and is not a representation that the author is admitted to practice in your jurisdiction.
Three developments from the last seven days that I think actually matter to a Idaho T&E solo. Each one has a read that lands on your practice specifically — and each one comes with the citation so you can verify the detail yourself before you use it with a client.
HB 345 (2025) directed the Department of Health and Welfare to move Idaho Medicaid from fee-for-service to comprehensive managed care. The Healthy Connections PCCM model ended December 31, 2025, and the managed-care framework (IMPlus) took over from January 1, 2026.
For an Idaho T&E solo with LTC clients, the delivery system your clients navigate has changed at the front end. Verify which managed-care entity a client is enrolled with and how it handles HCBS / Aged & Disabled Waiver services before you build a plan around assumed fee-for-service access — the contacts and authorization paths are different under managed care.
Idaho HB 345 (2025) · healthandwelfare.idaho.gov/managedcare
HB 913 requires able-bodied Medicaid-expansion adults to complete 80 hours per month of work or community engagement, with three months’ compliance before enrollment. State adoption is set for December 31, 2026, with federal compliance by 2027.
This sits at the eligibility front door for a slice of your clients’ households. While LTC eligibility for the aged and disabled runs on different rules, expansion-adult family members (and clients near the disability line) can be swept into the work-requirement screen — factor it into household-level planning and don’t assume a working-age relative’s coverage is automatic.
Idaho HB 913 (2026) · legislature.idaho.gov · H0913 (2026)
Idaho has not adopted the URPTODA: there is no real-property transfer-on-death / beneficiary deed (TOD exists for securities only). Substitutes are a living trust, joint tenancy WROS, or community property with right of survivorship (§ 15-6-401). And § 56-218 authorizes recovery for recipients age 55+ from the recipient’s estate AND the spouse’s estate, voiding inadequate-consideration transfers.
Two out-of-state habits will burn you here. First, never reach for a beneficiary deed — it doesn’t exist in Idaho; use CPWROS, joint tenancy, or a trust. Second, probate-avoidance is not recovery-avoidance: because recovery reaches the spouse’s estate, planning that simply moves assets to the well spouse can still be exposed. Plan the recovery question explicitly, not as an afterthought.
Idaho Code § 56-218 (estate recovery) & § 15-6-401 (CPWROS) · legislature.idaho.gov · § 56-218
Decisions that bind a Idaho practitioner — Idaho’s appellate courts and the federal courts covering Idaho, including the U.S. Ninth Circuit — read for what actually changes how you draft, advise, and plan. Trusts and estates broadly, not Medicaid alone: wills and capacity, undue influence, fiduciary duty, trust construction, and estate recovery. One read, the holding, and the official cite.
This lane reads each new opinion from Idaho’s appellate courts and the federal courts covering Idaho (Ninth Circuit) before anything lands here, and reads-and-discards matters that aren’t trusts-and-estates — criminal, family, commercial/LLC fiduciary, tax, and cases where an estate or trust is only a party. For this period’s trailing window, no new verified trusts-and-estates or estate-recovery decision from those courts was identified in the sources reviewed.
Nothing to re-paper from the bench this period; controlling authority is unchanged. When the next verified T&E ruling issues, it lands here with the holding and the official cite.
Controlling authority unchanged · Idaho appellate courts · U.S. Ninth Circuit.
This week in Idaho for the T&E solo with Idaho Medicaid clients: the developments from the Idaho State Bar (Taxation, Probate & Trust Law Section) and the Department of Health and Welfare that actually moved your practice this period — each one primary-source verified.
Bar and Medicaid changes land on different schedules and aren’t indexed by practice focus. Every item here was checked against its primary source, with the link, so you can verify before relying on it.