Family Law is a multi-faceted area of law that deals with family or domestic issues. Family law encompasses such areas such as: adoption, child custody and visitation, children’s rights, child support, spousal support (alimony), separation agreements, civilian and military divorce (dissolution of marriage), marital property division (equitable division), elder law matters, estate planning, estates and trusts, wills and will contests, probate, insurance, cohabitation agreements, pre-marital (pre-nuptial) agreements, marriage and other legal issues pertinent to the family. Further information available at Wisconsin Family Law.
An attorney can avert many legal issues that may arise in forming these types of businesses and he or he can advise people on the best business formation for their needs. An attorney can also help research any possible issues concerning intellectual property, hiring employees, taxation and other legal matters that can arise when forming and running a business. Further information available at Wisconsin Business Law.
Real estate transactions are governed by federal statutes, as well as state statutory and common law. Real Estate Law encompasses these statutes and laws, as well as property law matters. Real estate law includes a wide variety of legal issues relating to acquiring, financing, developing, managing, constructing, leasing and selling commercial and residential real property of all kinds, including...
Construction Litigation
Real Estate Transactions
Real estate transactions relating to representation, litigation, consultation and negotiation of mortgages, mortgage re-financing, reverse mortgages, 1031 tax-deferred exchanges, residential purchase and sale agreements, commercial purchase and sale agreements, residential leases, and commercial leases (e.g., office, medical building, restaurant, industrial property, or shopping center).
Eminent Domain
Real estate disputes, including disputes over adverse possession, prescriptive easements, eminent domain, condemnation, property taxes, title and boundaries, views, trees, branches, party walls, fences, as well as nuisance, trespass and encroachment, as well as sale disputes (e.g., breach of contract, specific performance, non-disclosure, fraud or misrepresentation).Real estate broker issues, including claims against and defense of real estate brokers and agents including negligence, fraud/misrepresentation, breach of fiduciary duty, disclosure obligations.
Personal injury falls under Tort Law. Personal Injury involves civil law cases where one tries to obtain compensation for an injury sustained. Physical injuries to your person could arise from being involved in an automobile accident, a railroad accident, airline or other common carrier accident, a construction or other workplace accident, being injured as a result of a dangerous or otherwise unsafe product and other injury-causing situations. However, injuries needn’t be physical-they could be psychological. Psychological injuries are typically caused by psychological trauma associated with life-threatening and/or disfiguring physical injuries, or as a result of witnessing trauma to others, or following escape from serious injury following a traumatic event. Before one can collect an award, a personal injury lawyer will have to prove that the defendant is liable. To prove liability, the attorney must also establish negligence.
Estate planning involves addressing all of a party’s preferences as to financial dispensations pursuant to one’s death, as well as establishing directives for health care and burial/funeral wishes. These include but are not limited to all of the property a person owns or controls, whether in sole name or not, partnership, joint ownership arrangement, or trust, and all other monies that would be generated upon a person’s death, as well as any financial obligations incurred prior to a person’s death. Further information available at Estate Planning.
Wills
Probate
The legal process by which property is transferred upon a person’s death is called “Probate Law.” Although probate customs and laws have changed over time, the purpose has remained much the same: people formalize their intentions as to the transfer of their property at the time of their death (typically in a will), their property is collected, debts are paid from the estate, and the remaining property is distributed.