BROWN FAMILY LAW GROUP: A WIDE SCOPE OF SERVICES

About two weeks ago, I posted on the Firm’s Face book account (Brown Family Law Group) that I was pleased as I had been able to get two, one hundred thousand dollar ($100,000.00) recent settlements by having the adverse driver’s insurance companies fork over their full policy limits. While I am always satisfied in making the wrongdoer’s insurance company pay what is owed to my clients, I was amazed at the number of responses and comments that I got back from my friends, clients, colleagues and former clients that did not know that my firm handles personal injury cases.

After practicing for approximately thirty years, twenty of those in my own practice, I am always continually surprised by people not knowing the full scope of what the firm handles. In other words, those clients that get to know the firm in a family law area, do not readily realize that I handle personal injury cases and visa versa. Similarly, those folks that I handle their wills, estate planning and parent’s probates, often do not know what other services that we offer.

To set the record straight, we offer our experience in primarily three areas. These are:

Family Law. This area includes: dissolutions (divorces), paternity actions, child support enforcement, contempt proceedings, grandparents rights, custody battles and moves out of state. While emotionally the most challenging, this area of the practice is the largest area handled by the firm. With over two decades of experience in this area of law, we are usually able to ease these transitions and keep costs to a fraction of our competitors. For this reason, I suspect, we have a tremendous amount of referrals in this areas.

Personal injury Law. Personal injury matters mostly includes automobile accidents, but it does cover other areas such as dog bite cases, pedestrian/automobile collisions and the occasional slip and fall case. Although I do not handle quite as many personal injury cases each year that the big TV lawyers do, I find this area intellectually challenging and personally rewarding to serve my clients who have been hurt due to another’s negligence and/or stupidity. In fact, this year alone, I have recovered over $600,000.00 for my clients in 2014 from those that have hurt or wronged them!

Probate Law. This is an area that I truly enjoy assisting others to prepare ahead for the future or help them when a loved one has passed. Before death, it includes: Last Wills and Testaments, Powers of Attorney (both specific as well as general), Living Wills, Quit Claim Deeds and Beneficiary Deeds. After someone has passed, it includes: handling and closing out their affairs, selling the home, collecting accounts, dealing with creditors, probate affidavits to collect held assets and, occasionally, a Probate filing at Superior Court. While we do not offer tax advice, we also spend time with out friends to educated them as to what happens when a loved one (or themself) passes and how to be properly prepared for that event that happens to all of us. In fact, with proper preparation and planning, our firm often can help people to legally avoid the need for a probate court case after they die, without the need for a costly and often cumbersome trust.