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831 W. Morse Blvd., Winter Park, Florida 32789
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Obtaining a Green Card Through Relationships

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The Lanigans have assisted multinational corporations, international businesses, national and state businesses and foreign nationals with immigration needs. The Lanigans prepare documentation for employment visa petitions and for Defense of Deportation cases in Immigration Court. The Lanigan staff speaks English, Spanish, and Polish.

Business Asset Protection Secures What’s Owned, Big or Small

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Opening a small business is no easy feat. Incorporating, forming a partnership, launching a 501©3, opening a store, leasing a location, building a new medical practice requires more than a bank account, and getting a state, county, city license and tax identification number. While organizing and filing the proper paperwork is imperative to forming a business in the state of Florida, business ownership and starting a business includes asset protection which requires a meeting with an experienced asset protection attorney. Finding money to defend a business from a lawsuit is not on the list of things to do unless assets are left unprotected. Asset protection is one of the first things that Winter Park, Florida, law firm Lanigan and Lanigan recommend for new business owners. Asset protection is the legal protection of assets: property, savings, investments, cars, homes, etc., and if you’re sued you won’t losing everything. It doesn’t matter if you own a lot or a little, but if you’re a small business that gets sued, anything that you own can be lost in a settlement. Secure the future of a business no matter if you’re independently wealthy, launching with bank loans or saving every penny that comes in, by meeting with Eric Lanigan or Roddy Lanigan for asset planning. An asset protection lawyer can structure the company from start to finish, the right way, to protect its assets should the company be sued. If you don’t believe a lawsuit can happen to you, there are millions of people sued every year. It’s estimated that a new lawsuit gets filed every 30 seconds and there are over 100 million...

Aggressive Representation With a Personal Touch

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Winter Park, Florida, law firm Lanigan & Lanigan, P.L., partner Eric A. Lanigan and Roddy B. Lanigan provide clients with experience and personal attention to every case. Eric has practiced Florida law since 1976; Roddy, since 2007. Together the Florida attorneys provide aggressive representation with a personal touch. The Lanigans provide a wide range of business and civil, financial, student loan debt, and real estate legal services to clients in Florida and across the U.S., Europe, and Asia. Aggressive Representation With a Personal Touch The Lanigans are passionate about the practice of law and attend to every client and each case personally. Whether you’re a one-person company, a family business, or a corporation, a parent, a couple or an individual, the Lanigans will address your case with you from the moment the first meeting takes place through the resolution of the legal issue you have. If you’re facing a legal problem and have to fight for yourself or for your business, consult with the Lanigans for legal direction. A key facet of any legal case is timing and the oher is the lawyer you choose to represent you. It’s imperative that you contact the Lanigans when the legal issue comes up. Don’t wait for the situation to worsen, or to see if it will work itself out. By working with the Lanigans, you have experienced attorneys who don’t back down from a fight. The Lanigans provide the representation and the action that you ask for.   When to Litigate, When to Negotiate Florida has many skilled attorneys. When clients need aggressive representation, tempered with experience and the knowledge to discern whether...

Avoid Investment Scams by Asking Questions, Authenticating

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Florida is the retirement capital of the U.S., and as such has a massive number of financial gurus, real estate experts, investment specialists who flock to the state because of the high number of senior citizens with valuable investment funds. Florida is a common place for retirement. Living in sunshine is a dream for those who have worked hard all their lives and who have saved, put together their 401(k), IRAs, annuities, savings, pensions and social security funds for their retirement years. Knowing that there is a predisposition in the state for a higher than average number of both retirement assets and a large group of people with those assets, there is also a large group of people determined to take those funds from seniors and others who come to Florida to retire. While senior citizens, retirees, the elderly are targets and marks in many scams, anyone who has saved, who dreams of retiring early, striking it rich, or who believes in get rich quick scams can be lured into investing in the wrong kind of investments. What is an Investment Scam? Investments are an agreement between two parties but when one party defaults by using fraudulent tactics to keep your money the agreement is broken. The investment becomes an investment scam. If you have been ripped off on an investment of any kind your first step should be to consult with an experienced Florida securities and investment attorney to find out if you have a chance to win or recover your investment. If you have been ripped off, you are not alone. In the U.S., the Securities and...

Pay Lower Legal Fees to Protect Your Business Assets Now

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The asset protection laws in the State of Florida are some of the nation’s most liberal and debtor-friendly. Coupled with the lack of state taxes and employer-friendly laws, whether a business will be home-based or is aiming to become a Fortune 500, businesses are attracted by the thousands to launching in Florida. Eric Lanigan and Roddy Lanigan work with businesses of all sizes to protect them from the destruction of creditors. The prime time for this to occur is before the business is incepted. However, anytime is a good time to protect assets. Consult with an attorney to plan your business structure to properly protect your assets. What is often left out of the business plan is the asset protection, the legal assurance that the business owner’s assets are safe from creditors. It’s interesting because the entire idea behind asset protection is planning ahead to protect personal assets and business assets in advance of any legal problems. Asset protection is the legal planning for separation of business and personal assets from creditors in a lawsuit. Every business plan should account for asset protection at the front just as it plans for insurance, investments, taxes, advertising, sales, employees, etc. Business owners do not want to incur legal fees to create and maintain a legal entity. However, in addition to other advantages, conducting business through a legal entity may offer substantial risk management benefits. The legal advantage of operating a small business through a business entity instead of an individual sole proprietorship is that the business entity can shield the individual owner against personal liability from business creditors and protect the...

Florida’s Adversarial Probate Process

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  Click to Listen. Right Click Audio as it’s playing to download to your device.   Roddy Lanigan of Lanigan and Lanigan in Winter Park, Florida talks about the adversarial process in probate. Probate is the process by which a deceased person’s property, known as the estate, is passed to his or her heirs and people named in the will.  Visit the Lanigan&Lanigan YouTube channel to view a video about “Florida’s Adversarial Probate Process.” Challenging a Will The death of a loved one’s a trying time and often it’s made even more trying time when it becomes as an interested party of an estate to defend or dispute the validity of a will. Wills are contested in the probate in what we call the adversarial process. The adversarial process is essentially a lawsuit in the probate proceeding.  Adversary actions are generally brought when an interested family member or contestant challenges the validity of a will based on undue influence exerted over the person making the will. Lack of testamentary capacity or the soundness of mind of the person making the will, or fraud. An adversarial action can also be brought by a creditor against the estate for inappropriate actions of the personal representative like hiding assets or misappropriating them. If you need to contest a will or defend against a creditor of the estate, then you will need a knowledgeable lawyer who practices in the field of probate litigation. Probate litigation is a complex field which requires a thorough understanding of the Florida probate code and the ability to litigate. If you have a question, feel free to call me anytime at...