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Carthage | Joplin | Lamar | Nevada | Jasper County
Checkett & Pauly, P.C. is a civil law firm featuring a legal team with significant experience in commercial and business disputes, lender liability, malpractice, creditors' rights, real estate disputes, tax appeals, stocks and bonds, insurance claims, contested wills and trusts, consumer rights, personal injury and a variety of other legal practice areas.
Featuring three attorneys and a staff dedicated to focused, cost-effective legal work and quality client service, we provide professional legal services for individuals, families and businesses in Carthage, Joplin, Jasper County and throughout southwest Missouri.
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Contact us today for a free consultation about your legal matter. For more information, please see one of the areas listed below:
- Bankruptcy
- Transactional services
- Business law
- Estate planning and probate
- Banking law
- Civil litigation
- Motor vehicle accidents
- Mediation
Transactional Legal Services for Missouri Individuals, Families and Businesses
Checkett & Pauly's legal practice consists of business and corporate affairs, business and consumer bankruptcy, debt workouts and reorganization, creditors' rights, real estate transactions, estate planning, banking, wills and trusts, entertainment law, environmental law, probate, taxation, arbitration, mediation and a wide variety of other services.
Business Law: Entity Formation and Commercial Transactions
Checkett & Pauly promotes the business interests of small family businesses as well as Fortune 500 companies in the manufacturing, distribution, retail, and service industries throughout southwest Missouri. We provide business formation, transactional legal counsel and dispute resolution services to client corporations, limited partnerships, and limited liability companies. Our service ranges from initial business formation and financing to mergers, acquisitions, sales of companies, and dissolutions or organizations.
Estate Planning and Probate
Our attorneys prepare estate planning documents from simple wills to sophisticated trusts such as charitable trusts and generation-skipping trusts. Our clients seek to protect their assets and develop plans for transferring that wealth to family members or charitable organizations in the future. We consult with our clients and their advisors to perform a complete review of their assets. After coming to a complete understanding of our clients' needs and goals, we discuss a broad range of options such as wills, trusts, "living wills," powers of attorney, non-probate transfers of assets, pre and post-marital contracts, and irrevocable trusts.
We place a special emphasis on helping our clients avoid probate costs and minimize estate and gift taxation. We also provide business succession planning services for businesses and administer trusts and estates in probate court. Our probate litigation experience includes trust interpretation, administration, and will contests.
Banking Law
Checkett & Pauly represents both lenders and borrowers in all aspects of commercial and personal lending, restructuring, and workouts. Our attorneys are regularly involved in lending and secured transactions, mortgages, foreclosures, and enforcement of the rights of creditors in bankruptcy as well as in state court. Our clients include numerous commercial banks throughout southwest Missouri as well as other financial institutions that make loans or require litigation within this area. We are experienced in lender liability prosecution and defense. Kevin Checkett is on the Board of Directors for The Missouri Bankers Association, legal counsel section.
Bankruptcy
We represent both individuals and businesses as they file for Chapter 7, 13, 11, 12, or 13 bankruptcy, and we also represent creditors and bankruptcy trustees. Checkett & Pauly has over thirty years bankruptcy experience in thousands of cases, in all chapters and representing all positions and points of view. We practice primarily before the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Western District of Missouri in Carthage and Springfield. However, Checkett & Pauly regularly becomes involved in litigation and contested matters in bankruptcy courts throughout the country, including in the District of Delaware.
Civil Litigation
Experienced trial lawyers Kevin Checkett and Chuck Pauly try a wide spectrum of cases in Missouri and federal courts. We handle cases involving all commercial torts, construction and engineering claims, mechanics' liens, lender liability, creditors' rights, tax appeals, environmental claims and professional liability. We accept no domestic relations or criminal defense.
Motor Vehicle Accidents
We help people who have been injured in serious car accidents, as well as and families who have lost a loved one to a fatal accident, seek compensation for medical expenses, lost wages, pain and suffering, or long-term care needs. We work to restore financial security for victims of catastrophic injury and wrongful death and will aggressively seek maximum compensation for our clients. Our attorneys are experienced in handling complex auto accident and wrongful death claims, including uninsured and underinsured motorist claims.
Mediation
When an out-of-court solution is an option, many people may jump at the chance to resolve their legal matter more efficiently and without the same types of costs associated with traditional litigation. Our firm is able to advise individuals and businesses throughout the mediation process. Attorney Kevin Checkett is also a certified mediator who can act as a neutral in mediation proceedings.
Checkett & Pauly, P.C. provides strategic representation with a focus on personal and business needs for the people of southwest Missouri. Contact us today for a free consultation with an experienced Carthage, Missouri, lawyer.
Checkett & Pauly, P.C.
517 South Main Street
P.O. Box 409
Carthage, MO 64836
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Phone: (417) 358-4049 | Fax: (417) 358-6341
The Carthage, Missouri, law firm of Checkett & Pauly, P.C. represents clients throughout southwestern Missouri in communities such as Carthage, Webb City, Joplin, Nevada, Lamar, Mount Vernon, Galena, Kimberling City, Branson, Branson West, Cassville, Monett, Mt. Vernon, Aurora, Pineville, Anderson, Goodman, Neosho, Granby and Springfield.
