According to Arkansas divorce law (Arkansas Code Title 9–Family Law–Subtitle 2–Domestic Relations–Chapter 12), in order to receive a no-fault divorce, you and your spouse must live separately for at least 18 months or come to an agreement out of court. However, if you have not lived apart for 18 months, or are not able to come to an agreement, the court will determine whether relevant grounds exist for a fault-based divorce. A fault divorce is often difficult to prove and requires proof like alcohol or drug abuse, adultery, or felony conviction against one partner.
Child Support
Arkansas family law issues like child custody, divorce, guardianship, and child support can be difficult to navigate on your own. It’s important that you choose wisely when you’re looking for a family law attorney in Arkansas.
Child Custody and Visitation
If you have children, you will be required to file a custody agreement upon divorce. If you cannot come to a custody agreement, an Arkansas child custody judge will make the decision according to the child’s best interests. Judges are not allowed to make decisions based on the sex of the parents or of the child – meaning a father’s rights should be considered as equally as a mother’s. The main goal of a good child custody attorney should be to find a way to settle a joint custody agreement that is in the best interests of the child. If this cannot be achieved, the courts will decide which parent will be granted sole custody and the other parent can petition for visitation rights.
Adoption
Paternity
Premarital Agreement
Our firm is consistently working on strategic and successful cases from prenuptial agreements to custody plans. We at Davidson Law Firm know how to make the law work for you. We take the time to really listen to our clients and help them achieve their legal goals. We’ve handled hundreds of cases including complex divorces with business and property divisions, children from multiple families, common-law marriages, and visitation rights for fathers, mothers, and grandparents. We’re confident we can address any family law issues you may have.
Guardianship
The term family law broadly describes the legal framework that regulates marriage and family relationships, including divorce, paternity, guardianship, adoption, and grandparent visitation. It is the one area of law that virtually every person in our society will have to deal with at some point. Usually, that experience is stressful because it is expensive and requires us to put into the public eye what we thought would remain in private. A good family lawyer has to balance the legal aspects of a case as well as the emotional and psychological toll it can take on clients.
A title insurance policy insures the status of title in the name of the owner of the policy. These policies are issued by title insurance companies. The policy is meant to protect the owner from financial losses related to the title and/or the costs of defending the title in court. The policy provides indemnification to the owner if they are damaged by a bad or negligent title search. For example, if a defect in the title was found that resulted from forgery, it would be covered by the title insurance policy.
The Davidson Law Firm in Little Rock, Arkansas provides business law services for clients throughout the Central Arkansas Area, including Little Rock, Conway, Hot Springs, Searcy, and more. Our law firm represents both individuals and corporate clients in a diverse range of industries. We serve startups, entrepreneurs, LLCs, partnerships, nonprofits, corporations, and any other type of business organization you may work for or own.
Business Transactions
Because we are intimately involved in our client’s cases, we find ourselves perfectly positioned to protect the most valuable elements of their business’s success – intellectual property, human capital, financing, and business transactions. We cover cases that involve...
Intellectual Property
When we think about property, it usually involves the ground and maybe a building. But some of the most valuable things are ideas. Intellectual property law, including copyrights, patents, trademarks, etc., allow a person to put the hard work into creating an idea and know that someone else cannot simply come along and steal it.
There was a time when virtually every time someone purchased a piece of real estate, a lawyer was involved, usually at more than one point in the process. Now, most transactions are handled by non-lawyers using standardized forms, most of whom don’t know what they don’t know about real-estate law. If a piece of real estate is large enough to have value, it is large enough to need the scrutiny of a real-estate lawyer.
Construction Litigation
The Davidson Law Firm is proud to be a leading construction law firm in Central Arkansas. For 40 years, we’ve aided business owners and trades in overcoming legal and business challenges associated with commercial construction, including...
Real Estate Transactions
Funding for a commercial real estate purchase is generally obtained from a bank, insurance company, or another institutional lender. The funds are provided for the purpose of acquisition, development, and/or operation of a commercial real estate venture. Assets must usually be put up as collateral and loan documents typically include loan agreements, promissory notes, mortgages or deeds of trust, assignments of rents and leases, financing statements, environmental indemnity agreements, guaranties, subordination, non-disturbance and attornment agreements, estoppel certificates, and other ancillary documents.
Property Damage
The real estate lawyers at Davidson law firm are highly-skilled and provide well-rounded and aggressive legal counsel on issues related to your real estate dealings and the current real estate market. We offer comprehensive services in all matters concerning real estate law, including financing, property acquisition, leasing matters, construction litigation, environmental pollution and containment claims, property damage, and more. We also offer services involving...
In 1978, Charles Darwin “Skip” Davidson started the Davidson Law Firm to better serve his real-estate and banking clients. Since that time, he has expanded his firm with new lawyers to handle construction litigation, personal injury, medical malpractice, family law, bankruptcy, intellectual property, Social Security and Veterans’ claims, and a variety of other areas.
Medical Malpractice
Disability Discrimination
Employment laws are the laws and rules that regulate the relationship between an employer and an employee and originated in the early 1900s in response to oppressive employment practices. Laws addressing overtime and minimum wage, child labor, family leave, military leave, maternity leave, workplace safety, and racial, age, or disability discrimination were enacted to address these concerns. Arkansas is an “at will” state, meaning that an employee can be discharged for any reason or no reason. However, if an employer violates state or federal law when they terminate an employee, this may result in liability for the employer. We can provide straightforward advice to individuals and employers how to avoid running afoul of employment laws.
Unfortunately, estate planning in one of the most misunderstood areas of law, but its importance to your family cannot be overstated. The difference between trying to navigate estate planning yourself and hiring a careful, knowledgeable estate planning lawyer in Arkansas could affect the financial wellbeing and stability of your family for generations to come. Usually, it takes years to find out if the lawyer handled everything correctly, so make sure that you’re hiring an experienced estate planning attorney with a proven record of success.
Wills
In most cases, probate begins when a relative of the deceased works with a probate lawyer to begin a petition to probate. This can be done with or without a last will and testament. If the estate is small, the relative who initiates probate (or the executor named by the will) must run a three-month notice to notify creditors.
Trusts
Here at the Davidson Law Firm, we have been handling estate planning for decades. We have experience with trusts and estates of all sizes and levels of complexity. Safeguard your family’s future with an estate planning lawyer’s help.
Probate
In simple terms, the probate process is the legal procedure for bringing a person’s will to fruition after their death. The probate court requires that the family of the deceased alert the public to ensure that all bills are paid on any property owned before the remainder is distributed to the heirs. Probate can have a negative connotation, but many families need the kind of court oversight that probate provides to ensure that the estate is handled legally and appropriately according to the deceased’s wishes.
Benjamin Franklin wrote that nothing can be said to be certain except death and taxes. Tax laws are the rules and procedures that determine how local, state, and federal governments calculate and enforce taxes owed by individuals and business entities. Tax laws change each year, thus it is important to stay abreast of these changes and how it may impact you individually and your business. In January 2018, the most significant tax law change since 1986 occurred. These changes impacted the way individuals and businesses are taxed, what deductions can be taken, and what documentation is required to substantiate compliance with the Affordable Care Act. We can provide guidance and represent individuals or businesses with their tax issues.