Family Law

• Guardianship
  And I would add to that, Amy, try not to think about this as the one time you get to make this decision. Many of my clients get overwhelmed at the notion that they’re picking someone that’s going to be the guardian for the next 18 years, and they get frozen by the challenge. Think about this in terms of where your children are now. What kind of guardianship environment would be best for them based on their age and their abilities today? And then you can reevaluate it later. And by the way, the probate courts in this area, they’re going to take the interests of the children into consideration if the children are older. So, if, for example, you’ve died and your surviving children are 15, 16, 17 years old, the probate court is going to listen to that child’s preferences, and they will override the nomination in a guardianship nomination when appropriate.

Business and Corporate Law

• Business Disputes
  Daniel Perry is a highly experienced attorney specializing in estate planning, tax, and business law. He's licensed to practice in Ohio, Kentucky, and Tennessee. Read More
• Trade Secrets

Employment Law

• Employment Discrimination
  After over 25 years of discussions, proposals, court decisions, and failed legislative efforts, Ohio has amended its employment discrimination statute (Ohio Revised Code § 4112) to streamline and simplify the rules and procedures relating to claims of employment discrimination and...
• Employment Contract
  Types of agreements that will be covered. The rule defines a “non-compete clause” as a term or condition of employment that either “prohibits” a worker from, “penalizes” a worker for, or “functions to prevent” a worker from seeking or accepting work or operating a business in the United States. The FTC states that language “does not categorically prohibit other types of restrictive employment agreements.” Non-disclosure agreements (NDAs), customer non-solicitation agreements, and training repayment agreement provisions (TRAPs) are most likely to remain viable and enforceable. However, even those agreements will be subject to scrutiny under this rule if the terms and conditions are “so broad or onerous that it has the same functional effect as a term or condition prohibiting or penalizing a worker” from seeking or accepting work or operating a business in the United States.
• Non-compete Agreement
  What will be prohibited. The federal rule would make it illegal to enter into a non-compete clause, attempt to enter into a non-compete clause, enforce or attempt to enforce a non-compete clause, or represent that a worker is subject to a non-compete clause.

Property Law

• Real Estate Litigation
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Health Law

• Personal Injury
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• Medicaid Planning

Trusts and Estates

• Estate Planning
  You’re listening to Simply Money, presented by All Worth Financial. I’m Amy Wagner, along with Steve Ruby. This is a part of the estate planning process that nobody likes to think about, but parents, if you have kiddos under the age of 18, it is critical. What happens to your children? Where do they go? Who’s taking care of them if you and your spouse are no longer here to take care of them? Joining us tonight with years, decades of experience, helping families make these critical decisions is our estate planning expert, Mark Reckman, from the Law Farm of Wood and Lamping. I don’t think, Mark, I can overstate how emotional of a decision this is. I mean, it’s one thing to be talking about, dividing up your assets. It’s another thing to talk about what happens to your kids.
• Wills
  Probate is the legal process through which a court oversees the distribution of a person’s assets, the settlement of their debts, and the resolution of their final affairs after that person has died. We call a person who has died “the decedent.” If the decedent had a Last Will and Testament, commonly known as a will, the court will determine the will’s validity and ensure the assets are distributed according to the decedent’s wishes. If there is no will, which is known as “dying intestate,” the court follows state law to divide the assets among the decedent’s heirs at law, which are people who stand to inherit or have a right of inheritance in the property of a person who died without a will. Probate also ensures that outstanding debts, including taxes, are paid before distributing the remaining assets to the beneficiaries or heirs.
• Trusts
  Living Trusts: By placing assets in a living trust, individuals can ensure that those assets pass directly to their beneficiaries without going through probate.
• Probate
  Ms. Frankel is an Ohio State Bar Association Certified Specialist in Estate Planning, Trust and Probate Law. She is active in the Estate Planning, Trust and Probate Section of the Ohio State Bar Association, and is a longstanding board member of its Section Council. Jan is also a member of the Cincinnati Estate Planning Council. She has been selected for inclusion in Ohio

Finance Law

• Bankruptcy
• Tax Law
  The Tax practice area dedicates decades of experience and knowledge of tax law to every case. Our tax attorneys look at every case from multiple angles and plan a strategy to resolve tax issues in the most efficient, systematic, cost-effective, and creative way possible. We stay on top of the ever-changing tax laws, Treasury regulations, judicial cases, and IRS administrative pronouncements to avoid entanglement in governmental and IRS loopholes that delay resolution.