A divisible divorce is a divorce whereby the marriage itself is dissolved but the issues incident to the divorce, such as alimony, child custody, and visitation, are reserved until a later proceeding.
Guardianship
A guardianship is a court proceeding designed to protect the personal interests of an individual who lacks capacity to make responsible decisions concerning his or her care and maintenance.
Spousal Support
Failure to reach agreement on all terms of division of property, debts, or spousal support will require litigation on the specific issues not previously agreed upon.
Legal Separation
A limited divorce is a divorce with no provision that one spouse must provide financial support to the other – loosely, a limited divorce is also known as a legal separation.
YES! According to Arizona statutory law, any person who is responsible “for the care of an incapacitated or vulnerable adult and who has a reasonable basis to believe that abuse or neglect of the adult has occurred or that exploitation of the adult’s property has occurred shall immediately report or cause reports to be made of such reasonable basis to a peace officer or to a protective services worker.” The statute specifically lists doctors, surgeons, hospital workers, dentists, psychologists, social workers, peace officers, guardians and conservators. However, the statute also includes, “(any) other person who has responsibility for the care of an incapacitated or vulnerable adult.” Any person who has a legal duty to report abuse, neglect, or financial exploitation of an incapacitated or vulnerable adult, and who fails to report such abuse is guilty of a class 1 misdemeanor.
Phoebe Harris was admitted to practice as a member of the Arizona State Bar Association in 2009 and previously practiced corporate law in Tacoma, WA, having been admitted to the Washington State Bar Association in 2006.
Real estate law encompasses many aspects of property and the law. Under the law, an individual’s property may consist of two forms only: personal property and real property. Real property consists of all real estate an individual may own or have an interest in. Our firm provides real estate legal services ranging from consultation relating to techniques in listing real estate, problems to anticipate in the listing process, assistance at real estate closings, assistance in review of the listing agreement with the broker, and review of the offer to purchase by a prospective buyer. Our firm also provides service in two other primary areas of real estate law: real estate contracts and deeds. For example, real estate contracts for the sale, conveyance, or gift are reviewed for legal, tax and estate purposes. In the case of deeds, our firm prepares real estate deeds associated with various estate plans and real estate transactions generally. Thus, our firm may assist you with various legal real estate issues and transactions – ranging from the listing, “for sale by owner”, general sale and listing, purchase, conveyance, gifting, and inheritance.
Real Estate Transactions
Our services appropriate range from reviewing or preparing real estate purchase/sale contracts, “for sale by owner” transactions, deed, and addressing and explaining legal issues affecting real estate in general.
“Trusts” are intricate and complex estate planning documents. It is crucial for you to have the guidance, supervision, and legal expertise of a qualified estate planning attorney prior to creating a “Trust”. Our firm recommends “Trusts” as effective estate plans for many clients. However, we recommend “Trusts” only to those clients who truly need a “Trust” to accomplish their estate planning goals. In fact, many times, clients’ estate planning wishes may be more effectively achieved through less complicated means.
Wills
Generally speaking, a living will is an instrument that is executed with all the same formalities as a Last Will & Testament, by which a person states their intention to refuse all medical treatment and to release healthcare providers from all liability if the person is both terminally ill and incapable of communicating their refusal.
Trusts
An “annuity trust” is a trust by which the trustee must pay a certain amount of trust monies to the beneficiary every year for the beneficiary’s life or other designated term of years. After the trustee has paid the beneficiary in full, the trustee must then either transfer the remaining trust monies to a qualified charitable trust or retain the trust monies for such charitable use.
Power of Attorney
A Power of Attorney protects your interests and wishes in case you are ever incapacitated or unable to make crucial financial, medical, or decisions relating to property or person.
An “estate trust” is a trust by which all or a part of trust income is to be accumulated during the surviving spouse’s lifetime and added to the trust property. Ultimately, the accumulated income and trust property shall be paid to the estate of the surviving spouse at their death. This type of trust is commonly used to qualify property for the marital deduction in estate tax planning