- AdoptionI am the clinic manager for the Sacramento Life Center/Sac Valley Pregnancy Clinic. Our clinic has been helping woman with unsupported pregnancies since 1972. Often we meet with women who are overwhelmed with the new pregnancy and want to discuss their options, resources, and emotions. They don’t know if they want to continue the pregnancy. They look at parenting and abortion as being their only choices. We encourage our clients to consider another option in making their decision— Adoption. The greater Sacramento area is blessed with a special law practice with years of experience in building and connecting families through adoption law. They know their stuff, but more important, they understand adoption from “the inside”. Nick Maloof, the founder of Maloof Law group, APC, was adopted as a child and Lisa Edwards, the Adoption Coordinator, has an adopted son. I strongly recommend contacting Maloof Law Group to explore their services.
- Business FormationCentral to forming your own business is choosing the entity through which you will operate it. The wrong entity can and will costs you in taxes. The wrong entity could be unduly cumbersome to manage for your type of business. The wrong entity could, in other words, put you at a disadvantage relative to your competitors.
- Business DisputesBusiness Law is somewhat different. It is less emotional, but just as charged as the other areas of practice. The Sacramento Business Lawyer needs to be circumspect in his or her thinking, always considering the ramifications of every decision and informing clients of these so that educated decisions can be made. At Maloof Law Group, our attorneys, and Nick Maloof in particular, have the skills necessary to be your “partner” in business, helping you strategize to take your business to the next level, whatever that may mean for you.
- Business TransactionsMaloof Law Group, APC practices in most areas of transactional business law. We do not litigate business law matters, and are strictly “transactional,” which we like to explain as meaning we strive to keep you out of litigation. More specifically, we` are skilled in forming corporations, limited liability companies, partnerships, limited partnerships, limited liability partnerships, and professional corporations. We are also skilled in negotiating and drafting commercial leases, buy-sell agreements, independent contractor agreements, agreements of settlement and release, indemnification agreements, asset purchase agreements, stock purchase agreements, subscription agreements, and many other business documents too numerous to mention here.
- Limited Liability Companies
- Employment ContractBusiness is not a simple undertaking. Most businesses that are successful require a team of people for support, but each team member, if not handled properly, can be a liability. At Maloof Law Group, we know that you want your support team of vendors, suppliers, employees, independent contractors, and preferred partners to have clear guidelines and defined roles. We are therefore skilled in employment contracts, independent contractor agreements, purchase and sale agreements, memoranda of understanding, letters of intent, and other boundary-setting documents that help define the scope of someone's involvement in your business as broadly or as narrowly as you intend.
- Real Estate LitigationDespite his business law and real estate law focus, Nick participates in all areas of Maloof Law Group’s practice, actively meeting and conferring with his fellow attorneys and staff to give rise to the best solutions to client problems.
- Real Estate TransactionsNick personally has experience in each of the areas of practice: Family Law, Estate Planning Law and Business and Real Estate Transaction Law, but he focuses his practice on Business and Real Estate matters, while splitting his time as the owner of Maloof Properties, a residential and commercial real estate brokerage firm.
- Estate PlanningWill your family be able to handle the finances if you are incapacitated? Will they have to pay unnecessary taxes? These are just a few of the questions that the estate planning attorneys of Maloof Law Group, APC can answer.
- WillsWhy should you create an estate plan now? That’s the easy questions – it is the same reason why we buy life insurance. We make the “how” and “where” to get an estate plan easy too. Our attorneys are focused on you and what you care about, so you can focus on more important things like when you child’s soccer game is.
- TrustsEstate Planning has its own challenges. Many are uncomfortable with the eventuality of death, but our moral obligation to our families and, to a lesser extent, our tax system would render us irresponsible if we ignored that reality. Wills and Trusts are an important component to an estate plan. A Revocable Trust is crucial for larger estates. Durable (meaning the instructions survive death) Powers of Attorney for health care (a “Health Care Directive”) and for property management are essential in maintaining continuity and ensuring your wishes are met during your lifetime. Our Estate Planning Lawyers are well-equipped to ask the right questions and sensitively elicit the answers that will help build the estate plan package right for you and your loved ones.
- Power of AttorneyThe will or revocable trust package mainly pre-plan what will occur upon your death, but what if you remain alive but are unable to tend to your property, pay your bills, file your taxes, or otherwise conduct daily financial business? In this situation, you need a well-drafted Durable Power of Attorney. The "Durable" aspect of the document means that the document's instructions will survive your incapacity, meaning that the instructions can be relied upon even if you cannot affirm them to be consistent with your wishes.
- Probate
- Tax LawA revocable trust is a document that establishes an entity to own your assets and manager your funds, but which puts you in complete control. By establishing the entity and transferring assets to it during your lifetime, you maintain control during your lifetime, but upon your death the trust remains in existence to distribute the assets according to your wishes. A revocable trust avoids probate, usually saving thousands in overall administration costs, and keeping the distribution of assets private and out of the court system. It is also an tax planning tool for those estates large enough to trigger estate taxation.