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Our Legal Services

We provide legal services in a number of specialized areas.

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Appellate

  • Appeals to the court of appeals

Divorce and Custody

  • Adoption (direct placement and step-parent)
  • Alimony/spousal support
  • Business valuation
  • Child support
  • Change of domicile
  • Cohabitation agreements
  • Contested and uncontested divorces 
  • Custody 
  • Domestic partnership agreements
  • Inherited/separate property
  • Mediation and arbitration
  • Military divorce issues
  • Parenting time
  • Paternity
  • Pre- and post-nuptial agreements
  • Post-judgment modification/enforcement
  • Property settlements 
  • Retirement and pension benefits
  • Tax planning

Estate Planning

  • Business succession planning
  • Estate, gift and generation skipping transfer tax planning
  • General and health care powers of attorney 
  • Disability planning
  • HIPAA releases
  • Pre- and post-nuptial agreements
  • Retirement and pension distribution
  • Tax planning and minimization
  • Trusts (Revocable living trusts; charitable remainder trusts, grantor retained annuity and unitrusts, irrevocable life insurance trusts, personal residence trusts, special needs trusts, testamentary trusts)  
  • Wills

Estate and Trust Administration

  • Administration of trusts and estates
  • Advising fiduciaries
  • Contested estates and trusts
  • Probate 

 

Elder Law and Medicaid Planning

  • Asset protection and preservation
  • Elder abuse and fraud recovery
  • Long-term care placements in nursing homes and assisted living facilities
  • Medicaid planning and qualification
  • Medicaid appeals
  • Medicare
  • Nursing home issues
  • Retirement and pension benefits
  • Social security issues
  • Special needs trusts 
  • Supplemental and long-term care insurance 
  • Veterans Benefits

 

Guardianships and Conservatorships

  • Appointment of limited or full guardians 
  • Appointment of conservators
  • Special needs trusts
  • Advising wards, guardians and conservators
  • Contested guardianships and conservatorships

 

 

Real Estate

  • Deeds and related transfer documents
  • Residential closings
  • Residential purchase agreements and land contracts 
  • Quiet-title actions

 

Business and Taxation

  • Business succession planning
  • Buy-sell agreements
  • Choice of entity 
  • Entity formation 
  • Estate, gift, and generation skipping transfer tax
  • Income Tax
  • IRS Audits 
  • Secured transactions

Mediation and Arbitration

  • Facilitative mediation
  • Trust and estate mediation

 

 

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