Family Law

• Divorce
  For divorce consultations, a modest consultation fee of $75.00 is charged. There is no fee for the initial consultation in most other matters, unless we can provide you with the legal service during your first visit to our office.
• Child Custody and Visitation
  We provide services both in representing parents and grandparents in seeking custody and/or support of children in their care when families are living separate and apart, and in mediating between parents who wish to work out a solution short of court. We also mediate between parents and grandparents who cannot agree how they will keep the children safe while preserving family ties.
• Adoption
• Guardianship
  But when a parent is suddenly incapable of living alone, or has lost the ability to properly handle their money, it is time to consider guardianship proceedings so that someone can be appointed by the court to help with making living and health care decisions.  A conservator may also be appointed to assist with making financial decisions, paying bills, and providing for protection of the parent’s assets.

Criminal Law

• Wrongful Death
  Our fee for the injured party in personal injury and in wrongful death claims is a contingent fee, a portion of the amount you recover. While the costs of the litigation are your responsibility, we do not earn a fee unless we are able to recover for you.

Business and Corporate Law

• Business Formation
  The form of business is unique to you and your business plan.  We offer a free consultation about business formation, and stand ready to help you build and maintain the structure of your new or existing business.
• Limited Liability Companies
  Partnerships are less common than corporations or limited liability companies in today’s business world, but sometimes this form of business organization is the best fit.  Two or more persons enter into a contract (

Property Law

• Real Estate Litigation
  From the nuances of contract negotiation and enforcement, through the intricacies of land use regulations, to the orchestration of closing, no two real estate matters are the same. Efficiency is ever-important in all Real Estate matters, and efficiency is what you will receive from our firm.
• Real Estate Transactions
  Commercial real estate transactions are highly specialized and require many steps in the decision making process. The attorneys at Cox and Cox are ready to help smooth the process from helping you decide how you will hold title to the real estate, i.e. as an individual, as a partnership, as a limited liability company, as a corporation, as a Virginia Land Trust, etc; through the creation of the business entity and registration with the State Corporation Commission if required; and closing the purchase, and any steps in between as you may need or request.
• Land Use and Zoning
  Litigation in State and Federal Courts and Agencies. Adoption, Corporation, Bankruptcy, Estates and Trusts, Commercial, Constitutional, Criminal, Domestic, Environmental, Insurance, Labor, Personal Injury, Probate, Real Estate, Zoning and Land Use, Immigration Law.
• Landlord-Tenant Disputes
  The General District Courts in Tidewater do a brisk business in landlord and tenant disputes, primarily because most people don’t fully understand their lease, or the rights and responsibilities it contains, for both the owner of the property and the tenant who lives or works in the property.

Immigration Law

• Citizenship and Naturalization
• Green Cards

Health Law

• Personal Injury
  If you suffer a serious personal injury or someone in your family is injured or dies because of someone else's fault, come to us for legal help. Disability, Disfigurement, Deformity, Death and other permanent injuries, medical bills, hospital bills, and your pain and suffering demand compensation by way of recovery from the wrongdoer causing them. Sorting out and reimbursing from your recovery all or a portion of the federally allowed claims for medical and hospital expenses paid for you through medicare, medicaid, Veterans. Administration benefits, Military benefits, Employer E.R.I.S.A. benefits by third parties who have a right under Federal law to reimbursement are among the challenges that our firm has experienced success handling...
• Medical Malpractice
  We provide expert legal services in the areas of Personal Injury, Medical Malpractice and Wrongful Death. In certain instances, we will come to you for interviews and questions. There is no fee for an initial consultation to determine if we can help you with a legal problem or service.
• Medicaid Planning
  Medicaid planning, in these days of exploding costs for assisted living and nursing home care, becomes an interest for older clients who anticipate that in their later years one spouse will require such care and the need to plan for limited resources to protect the spouse who will continue living in the community (called the community spouse).

Trusts and Estates

• Estate Planning
  Member: American Bar Association; Virginia State Bar; Member, Board of Governors, Senior Lawyers Conference; Norfolk and Portsmouth Bar Association; Virginia Beach Bar Association; Tidewater Estate Planning Council; Past President, Virginia Beach Estate Planning Counsel; National Association of Women Judges.
• Wills
  Estate planning for these families is also important.  We listen carefully to the parents and siblings and help them plan wills and trusts which will give the kind of extra assistance to the handicapped child/adult, while protecting necessary benefits and still providing for all the family to share in the hard earned efforts of the parents.
• Trusts
  Special needs trusts are carefully drafted documents which shield assets given to or received by the individual so that the money/property does not become a countable asset. Special needs trusts can be created by any person under the age of 65 with their own assets (self funded trust), and can be created for an individual by another person (grandparent, parent, etc) who wishes to provide funds to assist the individual with things that governmental benefits do not pay for (third party trust). The money from a special needs trust can be used by the trustee for things that make the beneficiary’s life more enjoyable, like educational and travel expenditures, entertainment, a new bed for the bedroom in a group home, etc.
• Power of Attorney
  A power of attorney creates an agency relationship in which another person or persons (called Attorney in Fact) is given authority to act for the person (called the Principal) who wishes to provide for someone to act in their behalf, usually at their direction. A durable power of attorney provides for the authority to continue after the principal becomes unable to act for themselves.
• Probate

Finance Law

• Bankruptcy
• Tax Law
  Tax planning can be established in wills but the use of trusts, and other tax saving measures, if federal estate taxes may be applicable.