Family Law

• Guardianship
  Conservatorships and guardianships are court supervised administrations established for the benefit of persons who need a representative to manage, safeguard and oversee their personal affairs in the case of a guardianship (shelter decisions, medical care decision-making, personal care) or oversee their property management, care of finances) in the case of conservatorship. The persons for whom proceedings are initiated may be incapacitated adults or they may be children whose circumstances are such as to require such supervision simply by virtue of their minority (age) and/or need for substitute parental authority.

Business and Corporate Law

• Business Disputes
  I’m a native of Colorado, married and the father of five children. I began my law practice in 1972 after receiving a law degree from the University Of Denver College Of Law. Prior to my attending law school, I graduated from the University of Colorado at Boulder. I’m a member of the Colorado and Denver Bar Associations and a participant and member of the following Bar Associations Sections: Probate & Trust Law, Business Law, the Elder Law and Real Estate.
• Business Transactions

Health Law

• Personal Injury

Trusts and Estates

• Estate Planning
  Estate planning is a process and should be done with the benefit of the counsel of advisors familiar with your goals and concerns, your assets, how they are titled and your family structure and objectives. The process is the consideration of the effective, efficient and wise transfer of property at death, planning of its management during a period of disability or incapacity and equally, if not more important, health-care & placement decision-making for the care
• Wills
  Guide to Wills & Estates defines it as the legal procedure through the State’s court system to determine the validity of a will. As a verb, “probate” is also used to mean the process of settling an estate (e.g., “probating the estate”). In this sense, probate is the process by which assets are gathered, applied to pay debts, taxes, and expenses of administration, and distributed to those designated as beneficiaries in the will or (if there is no will) according to the dictates of the State’s Probate Code (laws of intestacy). The purpose of probate is to take the ownership of “probate” assetsout of the decedent’s name and put them into those of the beneficiary (whether a living person or institution).
• Trusts
• Power of Attorney
  It should be remembered that not everyone who is incapacitated needs a guardian or conservator. If that person has executed adequate powers of attorney (both health care and property/financial), there may then be in place an
• Probate
  One further note pertaining to Colorado probate law. If the amount of probate assets is less than $50,000 and the decedent did not have any probate interest in real estate, a