Family Law

• Child Support
  Family Law -Our firm handles a full range of Family Law matters including adoption, dissolution of marriage, spousal support, separation, premarital agreements, paternity, child custody, visitation, and child support.
• Child Custody and Visitation
• Adoption
• Paternity
• Premarital Agreement
• Spousal Support

Criminal Law

• Criminal Defense
  Appellate Practice -Our firm represents and advises clients who are or might become involved in an appeal in such areas as criminal law, personal injury, contract disputes, family law, business law, and commercial matters.
• Traffic Violations
  Criminal Law -Our firm has extensive experience defending the rights of people arrested and accused of criminal offenses. We handle all types of criminal cases, from minor infractions and misdemeanors, such as traffic violations, to serious felony indictments.
• Misdemeanors

Business and Corporate Law

• Corporate Law
  Corporate Law -The form of business chosen for a business entity potentially affects every aspect of its operations. Our firm assists our clients in formation and business planning in deciding whether they want to operate as a closely held business, limited liability company, partnership, or corporation. We advise our clients about directors' and officers' liability, dissolution, franchising, reorganization, trade association membership and activity, joint ventures, mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, business successions, and shareholders' rights.
• Business Disputes
  Business Law -We provide a wide variety of services to our business clients from assisting in selecting the type of organizational entity under which to operate, preparation of agreements, sale and purchase of businesses, obtaining financing and funding for business operations, and employee relations, to dissolution.

Property Law

• Real Estate Litigation
  The current real estate market is fast-paced, constantly changing and full of details. We know that real estate issues need to be addressed quickly and accurately. To give our clients the best service Moore, McKibben, Goodman & Lorenz, LLP has dedicated a department just for real estate matters.
• Real Estate Transactions
  The real estate services department offers a variety of services to complete real estate transactions, including cash closings, loan closings, notary only closings, assisting "For Sale By Owners" and clearing title objections. Eight of our attorneys are field-issuing attorneys with Title Guaranty.
• Eminent Domain
  Real Estate -Our firm represents both commercial clients and individuals in proceedings and transactions that deal with real property-land and the structures attached to it-including purchase and sale, construction, mortgages and foreclosures, leases, land use & zoning, eminent domain, title examinations, quiet title actions, closings, and management.
• Land Use and Zoning

Immigration Law

• Citizenship and Naturalization

Health Law

• Personal Injury
  Personal Injury -Our firm represents individuals involved in controversies alleging a wrong or damage to another's person, rights, reputation, or property resulting from events or activities such as automobile accidents, defective products, infliction of emotional distress, intentional misconduct, and negligence.
• Social Security Disability
  Health Care -Our firm has experience in the large and complex field of health care, which encompasses areas such as disability law, elder law, hospital law, and mental health law and is impacted by Social Security Disability, Medicare and Medicaid.

Trusts and Estates

• Estate Planning
  Jim has been a speaker at the Iowa State Bar Association December Tax School each year since 1992. He is a Fellow in the American College of Tax Counsel and also in the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel. Since 2003, each year he has been a presenter at the I.S.U. Farm Tax Schools. In 1992-93, he was chair of the Iowa State Bar Association Tax Section.
• Wills
  Elder Law -As we get older, many of us are faced with difficult and important decisions regarding our healthcare and our financial well-being. We can help you plan for both the present and the future through the use of: wills, trusts, powers of attorney, living wills, and health care directives.
• Trusts
• Power of Attorney
• Probate
  Wills, Trusts, Estate Planning and Probate Law -We plan the distribution of an individual's property at his or her death, using wills and trusts and taking into account the effect taxes, insurance and the individual's property, to gain the maximum benefits while carrying out the individual's wishes. Probate is the legal process by which a person's debts are paid and assets are distributed upon his or her death. Individual state laws direct the distribution of a deceased's estate.

Finance Law

• Bankruptcy
• Foreclosure
  Banking Law -Banks and financial institutions collect deposits from individuals and entities and invest those funds in loans, securities, and other assets. Our firm assists depositors, lenders, and borrowers in accordance with intricate state and Federal banking statutes and regulations. Our attorneys have experience in lending and secured transactions, loan workouts, mortgages and foreclosures, and public finance. Our clients include borrowers, depositors, commercial banks, credit unions, and holding companies.
• Tax Law
  Taxation -Our firm represents individuals and commercial clients in matters with tax implications, identifying and addressing state and federal tax issues, structuring transactions in such a way as to minimize taxes and avoid inherent tax problems, including a trial of tax issues in tax court and federal district court.