Family Law

• Divorce
• Child Support
  Jim has a diverse family law practice including dissolution of marriage, custody, child support, paternity, guardianships, conservatorships, and stepparent adoption.
• Adoption
• Paternity
• Premarital Agreement
  Our family law attorney at Ackley, Kopecky & Kingery, LLP handles a variety of issues including divorce, custody, child support, prenuptial agreements, guardianship, and adoptions. In additional to traditional legal skills, family law often requires attorneys to be very comfortable with negotiation and counseling.
• Guardianship

Criminal Law

• Wrongful Death

Business and Corporate Law

• Business Formation
• Business Disputes
  Our attorneys handle the formation, governance, dissolution, and all other legal aspects of the administration of corporations and other types of business entities (corporations, limited liability companies, partnerships, etc.). Whether you need a single member LLC or would like to incorporate your business with other investors or partners, Ackley, Kopecky & Kingery, LLP can assist you.  Other duties of business law attorneys include mergers, acquisitions, internal reorganization, disputes between corporations and individuals concerning liability, and compliance with state and federal law, as well as international accords.  Our attorneys can also assist you in the purchase or sale of a business.
• Limited Liability Companies

Employment Law

• Wrongful Termination
  He handles civil litigation matters including real estate ranging from bad construction to fraudulent failure to disclose issues prior to sale, and insurance claims. He represents employees in wrongful termination cases involving retaliatory discharge, sexual harassment, and discrimination.
• Sexual Harassment

Property Law

• Land Use and Zoning
  The practice area of real estate and property law deals with a variety of related issues in both commercial and residential settings.  Issues may include: reading abstracts and rendering title opinions; determining and resolving rights and interests in real estate and real property; sales, purchases and other transfers of real estate and real property; legal aspects of rental property and landlord issues; tenants’, renters’ and homeowners’ rights; title to real property; settlement of claims against property rights; property development; zoning and land use; related agriculture issues; home loans and foreclosures; and various other relevant topics.

Health Law

• Personal Injury
  Jim’s personal injury practice includes automobile, bicycle, motorcycle and pedestrian accidents, product liability, sexual abuse, harassment, nursing home abuse, injury, and death cases.
• Medical Malpractice
  Personal injury law deals with intentional or unintentional wrongdoing that affects individuals physically or psychologically. Practitioners in the field are well-versed in torts law and may work on cases involving medical malpractice, accidental collisions, product liability, wrongful death, or workplace injury. Many cases are settled out of court in this field of legal practice.

Trusts and Estates

• Estate Planning
  Daniel Seufferlein is a partner at Ackley, Kopecky & Kingery, LLP.  Dan maintains a general practice, which includes but is not limited to an emphasis on real estate, estate planning and probate, and business transactional work.  A large focus of Dan’s practice involves real estate and real estate related litigation, representing individuals, businesses and lending institutions.
• Wills
• Trusts
  The estate lawyer’s role is to help a client arrange his or her financial affairs so that, upon the client’s death, the client’s assets are distributed exactly as he or she wishes and the tax consequences of distributing that property are minimized. The law of estates and trusts governs the use of certain types of instruments, such as wills, living trusts, or charitable trusts, to provide for an orderly distribution of the assets and payment of any debts or liabilities of the estate. Lawyers at Ackley, Kopecky & Kingery, LLP who work in estate planning and probate work closely with their clients, often over a period of many years, and tend to become close to their clients. Because of this relationship, the lawyer often knows a great deal about their clients’ financial matters and family relationships. The estate lawyer often becomes a true family counselor, helping the client work through both financial and personal issues.
• Probate

Finance Law

• Foreclosure