Criminal Law

• Fraud
  Counterfeit check fraud is on the rise! If you have never been to our office in Newark, Delaware for an actual settlement and you receive a check that purports to be from us, please call our office number at 302-368-6233 to verify it.
• Forgery
• Internet Crimes
  Due to the amount of internet fraud, we have disabled the ability to submit inquiries by web. Please contact the office directly by phone.

Business and Corporate Law

• Business Transactions
  Our law firm competently handles both residential, investment, and commercial transactions—regardless of whether it is a purchase or a refinance—in both the State of Delaware and Pennsylvania. In most circumstances, we can offer our clients the ability to close the matter in our office, the client’s home or place of business, a realtor’s office, or a lender’s office.

Property Law

• Real Estate Litigation
  A message for real estate agents who would like to work with a dedicated professional law firm, specializing in real estate law. We are commercial and residential real estate law specialists - bringing expertise to all areas of the settlement transaction.

Trusts and Estates

• Estate Planning
  After execution of a Last Will & Testament or any other estate planning intrument, we strongly recommend that you store the document in a fireproof and waterproof safe or a safety deposit box. We recommend that you update this document any time that there is a major change in your assets, you relocate to another state, a marriage or death occurs, or a change in the tax law is passed. In certain situations, we may recommend that you consider using a trust as a vehicle of estate planning.
• Wills
  I recommend that every adult—over the age of eighteen—have a Last Will & Testament regardless of their current assets or debts. At a minimum, the document is a formal declaration of how a person wants his or her assets distributed upon death and who will carry out that distribution. If you die without a Last Will & Testament, the law makes presumptions (through intestacy statutes) about how your assets will be distributed and who will manage that process for you.
• Probate

Finance Law

• Foreclosure
  In purchase transactions, we strongly encourage our clients to purchase owner’s title insurance policy to protect themselves against potential defects in the chain of title that the standard title search may not reveal. If a prior deed was forged, fraud came into play, a foreclosure was improperly handled, or an estate was not properly dealt with in the past, an owner’s title insurance policy will protect the purchaser against these types of defects and problems. If the client is obtaining a loan to purchase the property, owner’s title insurance can be issued simultaneously with the lender’s policy for what generally amounts to just a few hundred dollars more. It should be noted that a lender’s policy only protects the lender (who is considered the mortgagee in the transaction) and not the buyer/owner.
• Tax Law