Areas of Practice
Wills and Trusts
Wills and trusts are documents which can be used to ensure that your property will pass to only the people that you choose. They can be appropriate for people of any income level and age.
Financial and Medical Powers of Attorney
There may come a time when you are unable to make medical or financial decisions for yourself. Powers of attorney allow you to choose who will make these decisions when that time comes.
Similar to a will, an advanced medical directive is a document that will ensure how you want to be treated medically when you cannot express those wishes yourself.
Advanced Medical Directives
Retitle or New Deed for a Property
If you would like to retitle or get a new deed for a property in Washington DC, Rich can help. You may want to fund a trust, get a transfer on death deed, or retitle your house and retain a life estate so that the property won’t have to pass through probate and to avoid medicaid estate recovery. Rich can explain how retitling your property and actually get your property retitled quickly and at low cost .
Probate Administration
Medicaid Planning
Probating a love one’s will can be a time consuming process. Rich can help you through it.
Finding a way to afford longer term care and nursing home care can daunting. Rich can help review your assets and help you qualify for medicaid the right way
Art Law
Rich’s expertise is contracts and small business matters. Rich can draft or review contracts for bills of sale, exhibitions, consignment, or performance. Rich can tell you how you might be able to exit a contract you’re currently in, or what your rights are if you believed you were wronged in business arrangement. Rich can also advise how to structure your business in the arts, how to do business in Washington DC, or how to do business in other states from Washington DC.
Small Claims Court
No one wants to go to small claims court. However, if you find yourself there, Rich is able to help. Rich has successfully negotiated a small claims settlement and has appeared in DC Small Claims Court on behalf of local business.
Administrative Appeals
No one wants to lose an administrative hearing before a DC agency. Rich has appeared before the DC Court Appeals and can explain what to do next
Registering Business Entities
When you start a business it might be in your interest to organize the business in particular entity. Rich and walk you through the benefits and drawbacks of each option, register the entity for you, and keep updated so your entity remains in good standing.