Varied and Complete Attorney Services

Our firm provides a full range of legal services for those seeking to adopt children internationally, nationally or locally. We also represent those seeking to adopt children within the context of proceedings involving the involuntary termination of parental rights.

In these difficult economic times, you may need assistance with finding solutions to your debt problems. If this should happen, we are here to assist you with consumer bankruptcy filings in Chapter 7 and 13, business bankruptcy filings in Chapter 7, miscellaneous workouts, seeking relief from the automatic stay, objecting the preferential transfers and pursuing fraudulent transfers.

We advise clients in all areas of business and corporate law including forming new businesses such as Subchapter S Corporations, Limited Liability Companies, Limited Liability Partnerships, and Limited Partnerships. After formation, we also continue to work with newly formed businesses to ensure that they adhere to corporate formalities to protect owners from individual liability and provide legal assistance for related matters such as the purchase or sale of a business, commercial real estate purchases and leases, insurance issues, and employment issues. We also help owners protect intellectual property rights by registering marks, trademarks and copyrights.

The protection of children is of paramount concern to our clients. Our firm offers a full range of legal services for the purpose of protecting children. We prepare and record agreements between parents without going to the Court. We also represent parents in those cases where the parties cannot agree and must proceed with custody litigation.

We offer a broad range of legal services pertaining to debt collection ranging from claims before District Justices to collection cases filed in the Court of Common Pleas. However, in each case, we attempt to utilize arbitration and mediation services before proceeding with litigation to offer the most cost-effective way to collect a debt.

Our attorneys provide a full range of legal services from small claims before local District Justices to claims which result in litigation in Courts of Common Pleas. In the event of an appeal, our attorneys are licensed to handle cases pending before the United States Supreme Court, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, the Middle District of Pennsylvania, and the Third Circuit Court of Appeals. Our attorneys have the knowledge and experience to handle the most complex commercial cases confronting you and your business. We provide commercial litigation experience and expertise found only at large law firms.

Our family law attorneys provide a full range of legal services relating to prenuptial agreements, postnuptial agreements, divorce, equitable distribution, child support, spousal support, alimony pendente lite and alimony determinations. We provide guidance each step of the way to determine the options, the approximate cost of each option, and the likely outcome given the unique circumstances of each case. While we attempt to resolve cases through negotiations, many cases do proceed with litigation where our firm represents individuals in child support proceedings, divorce proceedings, divorce proceedings before Masters, cases which proceed through the Court of Common Pleas, and cases which proceed through Appellate Courts.

We are here to assist our business clients with understanding ways to protect themselves against employee-related claims through the uniform application of work rules, use of employee handbooks, use of employment contracts, and understanding state and federal employment law. We also handle unemployment claims and issues related to wrongful terminations. We also help employees file for unemployment and pursue claims related to wrongful terminations.

Our firm offers a full range of estate administration services. In the past few years, we probated estates ranging from nearly 40-million dollars to small estates settled without the need for an account. We also provide a full range of legal services relating to will contests, trust and estate litigation, and litigation involving fiduciaries (trustees, powers of attorney, and personal representatives).

We provide a full range of estate planning services including the preparation of wills, trusts, living wills, and powers of attorney. We also provide assistance to those individuals who would benefit from larger wealth transfers through the use of irrevocable trusts, life insurance trusts, Charitable Remainder UniTrusts, Charitable Remainder Annuity Trusts, GRITS, GRATS, and GRUTS. In each case, we work closely with clients to determine the best way to minimize federal estate tax and Pennsylvania inheritance tax.

Our firm provides legal services to clients selling real estate through the preparation of Agreements of Sale, Sellers Disclosure Statements, disclosure addendums, and deeds. Our firm also provides legal assistance to those purchasing real estate by providing a full range of settlement services including title searches, resolving title issues, real estate settlements, and title insurance. Finally, our firm provides real estate litigation services related to real estate transactions such as quiet title actions, property line disputes, disputes regarding restrictive covenants, and disputes arising from the zoning, development, and marketing of commercial real estate.