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General Info: Stone & Sutton are two of the best Panama City's injury, criminal, family, elder and estates law attorneys who a both Harvard graduates and have the highest peer review rating from Martindale-Hubbell.
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Phone: (850) 785-7272

Address: 116 E 4th St, Panama City, FL 32401

Website: http://www.stonesuttonlaw.com

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Divorce
A divorce involving families with one or both of the spouses on active duty will have special issues, such as division of retirement benefits, entitlement to Tricare benefits, and treatment of disability pay and combat-related pay.
Child Support
When the military family includes minor children, parenting issues can become particularly complicated and contentious. Â Fitting military allowances such as BAH into Floridaâ€™s child support guidelines scheme can make calculating child support a challenge. Â Receiving transfer orders may result in a legal battle over where the children should be living. Temporary re-assignments may trigger special provisions of Floridaâ€™s child custody laws.
Child Custody and Visitation
Pam Suttonâ€™s expertise in child custody matters is based on many years of trying custody cases and on her study of child development and parent-child psychological issues. Â She understands how to develop the evidence to present your best case.Â
Adoption
Guardianship
The main goal of bringing a guardianship proceeding is to protect a defenseless person from losing money or suffering from neglect of physical needs.Â If you find that a loved one is in need of such protection, let us help you with this emotionally challenging process.Â Call
Spousal Support
If the spouses have a disparity in their incomes or earning capacity, one of them may be entitled to receive alimony from the other. Â If one of the spouses owns a business or has a complex compensation package, what is that spouseâ€™s real income? Â And what form should the alimony take? Â Award of a major asset? Â Periodic payments? For how long? Â Â What will happen to benefits coverages, such as health insurance?
Child Abuse
She taught a semester-long course on law and social policy at the Panama City campus of FSU.Â She taught the unit on constitutional law for a Bay High School law studies course, gave a training on child abuse reporting to local teachers, and has given talks on elder law topics at nursing homes in the Panama City area.

Criminal Defense
Mike represents clients in trials and appeals as well as administrative proceedings.Â Currently his practice focuses on cases involving negligent injuries and wrongful deaths, insurance claims, and criminal defense.
DUI/DWI
For example, Mike Stone has successfully defended DUI charges where the driver was given a roofie drug. He has had evidence and cases thrown out for illegal search and seizure.
Wrongful Death
Prior to forming the firm of Stone & Sutton, P.A., Mike Stone practiced with law firms in New York City, New York, and in Panama City, Florida, focusing on personal injury and wrongful death cases, white collar criminal cases, and civil litigation at his civil law office.
Traffic Violations
Sex Crimes
Sexual assault cases can be technically complex, involving both medical and psychological issues.Â You or your loved one must have solid legal help from the beginning.Â Defend yourself vigorously, and get the legal help you need to do it.Â Call the Panama City attorneys of STONE & SUTTON at
Robbery
Some people think of these as â€œgarden varietyâ€ offenses.Â Itâ€™s risky thinking.Â Some batteries are serious felonies.Â Sometimes what you thought was a mere trespass gets treated as a prison-qualifying burglary.Â Sometimes what you thought was a theft is dealt with as a robbery.Â Â Did you realize that dealing in stolen property is a second degree felony in Florida?Â Â Knowledgeable counsel needs to advise you on these charges and how they can be best defended.
Burglary
White Collar Crimes
During law school and for two years after graduation, Mike worked for a New York City firm focusing on white collar crime and civil litigation in federal courts as a public defender.
Theft
Misdemeanors
A conviction is even worse.Â Technically, DUI is only a misdemeanor in Florida (though a fourth life-time DUI is a felony).Â But the penalties, even for a first offense, are harsher than those for many felonies.
Drug Crimes
Possession, sale, or manufacture of cocaine, heroin, meth, or other high profile drugs is unlawful.Â You can be tried for drug crimes in both State and Federal court.Â Panama City attorney Mike Stone has years of trial experience in both jurisdictions.
Assault
Florida courts treat domestic battery differently than simple battery or simple assault.Â If certain aggravating factors are alleged, the prosecutor can charge even a simple battery as a felony, which carries potential prison time.
Murder
With law partner Pam Sutton, Mike Stone was featured on CBS-TVâ€™s â€œ48 Hoursâ€ news program for winning the acquittal of a teenager suffering from Battered Child Syndrome who was charged with first degree murder in the shooting death of his father.
Juvenile Crimes
An article Pam wrote for the Brooklyn Law Review on the fundamental rights of families in foster care adjudications has been cited as an authority in the Florida Bar publication on juvenile law and practice.
Homicide
Has never lost a death penalty case that wasnâ€™t reversed on appeal. Â Few homicide cases are hopeless if skillfully defended. Â Call STONE & SUTTON at
Shoplifting
Restraining Order
Florida law has a special procedure for applying for an injunction against domestic violence, also called a restraining order. Â It is not necessary to file for divorce to get a restraining order, but often a divorce case would be filed about the same time. Â One of the problems then becomes which court has jurisdiction and what can that court rule on? Â If there is a divorce lawyer case pending, which court gets to rule, at least temporarily, on who gets the kids? Â On who gets to stay in the house?
Forgery
Secondary crimes connected with drug use and addiction, such as prescription and check forgery, are also felonies.Â Felonies can result in prison time.Â Â Even a plea to probation can result in a public record that anyone can find with an internet search.
Manslaughter

Property Damage

Personal Injury
Mike moved back to Panama City and worked for the personal injury firm of Urquhart, Pittman, and Stone for 7 years before founding the firm of Stone & Sutton.
Medical Malpractice
Dog Bites

Trusts and Estates

Estate Planning
The current focus of Pamâ€™s practice is in the areas of family law and estate-planning, probate, and elder law.Â She has found that assisting families can have a multi-generational dimension and that it is helpful to clients to have expertise in each of these areas. Pam provides family court representation and support to the surrounding Panama City communities.
Wills
A will can contain trust provisions.Â For example, you can name someone to supervise assets left to minor children or grandchildren until they are old enough to take control of the money or property themselves, or you can make provisions for the care of disabled family members.Â This is called a testamentary trust.Â Trusts tend to be more expensive to prepare than simple wills but may provide more flexibility.
Trusts
A trust is a means of changing the ownership of your assets.Â A living trust may provide that you transfer ownership of assets during your lifetime but that you still may retain the benefit of owning and managing those assets.Â A living trust may also direct what happens to trust property when you die.
Power of Attorney
While some decisions may need to be made by a guardian when a senior is incapable, there are arrangements he or she can make before that time comes.Â By choosing a trusted individual to have power of attorney, you can help to assure that your wishes are followed when you can no longer voice them.
Probate

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