Business and Corporate Law

• Mergers and Acquisitions
• Business Formation
• Business Disputes
• Limited Liability Companies
  CDB brings decades of experience serving the legal needs of businesses, large and small, throughout Vermont. From starting a new business, to structuring a round of investment, to negotiating the sale of your business, we can help guide you to a successful result. We can help you with any variety of business entity, including limited liability companies, S and C corporations, limited and general partnerships, trusts, and sole proprietorships.

Property Law

• Real Estate Litigation
  Beth’s practice focuses on residential and commercial real estate transactions, as well as complicated litigation. She is an experienced trial attorney and has practiced in the Probate, Superior, Bankruptcy and Vermont Supreme courts, as well as before the U.S. District Court. She has assisted clients in zoning appeals, boundary disputes, landlord tenant disputes, quiet title actions, and has represented commercial and corporate clients with difficult contract disputes. During her 20 years of practice Beth has performed hundreds of real estate transactions, ranging from residential purchases to the creation of sophisticated
• Real Estate Transactions
  Real Estate Sales; drafting Deeds, Preparing Real Estate Tax Related Forms, Acquiring Vermont Tax Commissioner’s Certificates;
• Easement
• Land Use and Zoning
  CDB provides its clients with the benefit of our substantial depth and breadth across virtually every aspect of land use, planning and zoning law. Our experience includes involvement in all sizes of projects in Vermont, from small in-fill developments to large residential, mixed-use, commercial projects.
• Landlord-Tenant Disputes

Health Law

• Medicaid Planning

Trusts and Estates

• Estate Planning
  Most people, regardless of the extent of their assets, are concerned with developing a plan that will transfer their property at death. In fact, the development of such a plan is crucial to most families’ long-term financial security. Clients come to us for the full spectrum of trust and estate issues including...
• Wills
• Trusts
  Using Special Needs Trusts to Protect Assets and Provide Access to Care, National Business Institute (NBI), Continuing Legal Education and Continuing Professional Education, May 2017
• Power of Attorney
• Probate

Finance Law

• Bankruptcy
• Foreclosure
  She has lectured extensively and is a co-author of publications including “Liens and Credit Issues”, National Business Institute; 1994-5 “Advanced Real Estate in Vermont” 1996, National Business Institute; and “Vermont Foreclosure and Repossession”, National Business Institute, 2000, and 2001.
• Tax Law