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Checkett & Pauly, P.C. is a civil law firm featuring a legal team with significant experience in wrongful death, 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, 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, Jasper County and throughout southwest Missouri.
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Contact us today for a free consultation about your legal matter.
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. When our clients seek to protect their assets and develop plans for transferring that wealth to family members or charitable organizations in the future, we conference 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 review 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 we 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.
Business and Consumer Bankruptcy
We represent both individuals and businesses as they file for Chapter 7, 11, 12, or 13 bankruptcy, and we also represent creditors and bankruptcy trustees. Checkett & Pauly has extensive 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.
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.
