Family Law

• Divorce
• Child Custody and Visitation
• Adoption

Property Law

• Construction Litigation
  Marc S. Levine has been practicing law since 1992, all with Handler & Levine, LLC, and its predecessor firms. Marc regularly assists individuals and families in preparing their estate plans, including drafting their wills, revocable trusts, trusts for children and parents, powers of attorney, health care directives and other estate planning tools. He also represents Personal Representatives, Executors and Trustees in regard to estate administration, handling various decedent’s issues and assisting in the preparation of estate tax returns. Marc had an active litigation practice early in his career, primarily focusing on employment law, contract law, construction law and domestic work.

Immigration Law

• Citizenship and Naturalization

Trusts and Estates

• Estate Planning
  Top Ten (okay Top Twelve) Reasons People Procrastinate and Don’t Do Their Estate Planning - Handler & Levine, LLC
• Wills
  In the course of representing estates, we probate the Last Will and Testament (or open an intestate estate proceeding if there is no Will), and we help to marshal, preserve and value all of the decedent's assets. We help the family determine the best course in probate, including, in the jurisdictions that support it, the use of Modified Administration (in Maryland), Unsupervised Administration (DC) or the use of the Statement In Lieu of Accounting (in Virginia).
• Trusts
  Below is a generalized form of the funding instructions we send out to clients after they have executed their revocable living trusts. In many cases, the specific instructions will differ from these based on the issues relevant to a particular client.
• Power of Attorney
  Agent (Power of Attorney). An Agent, sometimes called an "attorney-in-fact" under a legal and financial power of attorney is a person you have designated to serve as your agent to manage your legal and financial affairs. An Agent may be designated individually, or jointly, or jointly and severally, to act on your behalf presently or, alternatively, only in the event of your incapacity.
• Probate

Finance Law

• Tax Law
  We prepare all necessary estate tax returns and we advise our clients on numerous related tax matters. Where necessary for the Court or beneficiaries, we prepare an accounting of the fiduciaries' actions and work with the fiduciaries to settle the account and have the fiduciaries released from liability, either with or without court action, depending upon the circumstances.