Family Law

• Divorce
  The parties’ divorce agreement defined how the husband’s fireman’s pension was to be divided. They would equally split the marital...
• Child Support
  The Circuit court had statutory authority to award the wife maintenance and child support from the date of her request in the petition for dissolution. Appropriate credit was given for the temporary payments husband had made.
• Child Custody and Visitation
  Child Custody. This is often the most hotly contested issue in any divorce involving children. We help mothers and fathers to understand their rights, minimize the conflict and work toward a solution that is in the best interests of both the parents and the children.
• Adoption
  Adoption. Adopting a child is one of the happiest events any parent can experience. We assist clients with stepparent adoption, independent adoption, and foster child adoption.
• Paternity
  Paternity and Fathers' Rights. Establishing the parentage of a child is necessary for mothers interested in securing child support payments and for fathers who wish to obtain visitation and custody rights in order to build a relationship with their son or daughter. We assist mothers and fathers in seeking and defending paternity actions.
• Premarital Agreement
  Shortly before their marriage, Sandra and Edward signed a premarital agreement. Both parties were represented by separate attorneys.The Agreement defined...
• Guardianship
  In addition to our family law practice, we offer legal services related to criminal law, animal law, real estate law, wills, probate, guardianship and a full spectrum of general civil law matters.
• Spousal Support
  Spousal Maintenance. Whether you want to request spousal maintenance or avoid paying it, we will help you fight for the settlement that is in your best interests.
• Legal Separation
  Wife filed suit for legal separation and maintenance from her husband. He answered and counterclaimed for divorce. The trial court...

Criminal Law

• Criminal Defense
• Sex Crimes
• Kidnapping
  Mother was found guilty of parental kidnapping. She was sentenced to two years in prison. The mother and father were...

Property Law

• Real Estate Litigation

Health Law

• Personal Injury
  Parties had divorced. They were back in court. Wife was to pay child support. She had a personal injury case...
• Auto Accidents

Trusts and Estates

• Estate Planning
  Husband argued at the emergency hearing that that no basis existed upon which to characterize this matter as an emergency. He testified that the $60 million was not moved out of the marital estate but rather remained in the same revocable trust that it had been held in for years as part of the joint estate planning the parties had done years ago. His counsel stated that the money was kept in husband’s name in his revocable trust in response to wife’s prior actions of filing for divorce, draining all the accounts, and leaving the state.
• Wills
• Probate

Finance Law

• Bankruptcy
• Tax Law
  How will the new tax law affect families, businesses, and individuals? Changes have been made to the child tax credit,...