| Q: Why do I need an Attorney?
A: Although you may be able to handle business and personal matters without one, an Attorney provides knowledge and experience to help you understand and complete legal matters more easily and completely, recognizing potential risks and pitfalls along the way, which might not otherwise be obvious to you.
Q: Why should I hire you to help organize my business?
A: After we learn from you about the goals for your business, we provide you with information and advice needed to choose the right business entity. All paperwork and filings are done promptly to get your business recognized and operational. Creating corporations and limited liability companies is billed at a flat rate, and you are given the time and attention to help you understand your choices. We give you a complete business organization package with an appropriate operating agreement, something you won’t get by filing online yourself or having an accountant file articles and obtain an employer ID number.
Q: Why do I need a Will or Power of Attorney?
A: A Will is an expression of how you want your affairs handled when you are gone. It includes a plan for payment of your bills, distribution of your property, and may be used to determine who will act as guardian for your children. Without a Will the state determines who gets your property, and who acts as guardian for your children.
A power of attorney is a document put in place while you are alive. Powers of attorney address either financial or health care issues. In a Durable Financial Power of Attorney, you name someone to work as your agent to help with your financial affairs. Such power may survive your incompetency. A Health Care Power of Attorney allows you to name someone to direct medical decisions if you are not able to. Without a power of attorney, your spouse or relative will have to go through a guardianship proceeding in court to get the power to handle such matters, at much greater cost and time.
Sometimes it makes sense to use a living trust to help transfer property at the end of a person's life. We can explain this approach and give you the information you need to decide what approach is best for you.
Q: What can an Attorney do for me when I sell my home or other real estate?
A: A real estate Attorney is an expert in contract law. We can advise you on the terms you need in what may be the biggest contract you deal with in your lifetime. In order to help you, your Attorney should see the contract before you sign it. We are also familiar with legal issues that may arise as part of a sale or purchase and can help make sure the documents needed to close the deal are prepared properly.
Q: Why use an Attorney when a real estate agent or broker is involved?
A: An Attorney represents you and your interest, and is governed by strict rules regarding conflicts of interest. A broker or real estate agent is usually hired and paid for by the seller and owes their duty to them. Brokers and real estate agents are experts at finding properties and connecting buyers and sellers. You should have an Attorney trained in Wisconsin law to advise you on legal matters, such as contracts like an Offer to Purchase.
Q: What makes Hesson & Birtch, LLC different?
A: At Hesson & Birtch, LLC, we devote our experience and expertise to our Clients legal needs, addressing thier legal issues promptly and efficiently. We handle no litigation, so we available when our Clients need a question answered, a contract drafted, or an Offer made. We take the time to provide our Clients with the information and advice necessary for them to make their important business and personal decisions. Our Attorneys have well over fifty years of combined experience handling a wide variety of legal matters. We give each of our Clients the same attention, whether drafting a simple will or a complicated trust, reviewing a simple contract or completing a multi-million dollar business deal.
Q: How do you charge for your services?
A: At Hesson & Birtch, LLC our Attorneys charge a fixed hourly rate for most services including office conferences, drafting or reviewing contracts or agreements, and telephone calls. Some matters are billed at a fixed rate including drafting Wills or incorporating a business.
Please contact us with questions specific to your business or personal legal matters |  |
|
