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The Law Firm of
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Hall & Hall, LLP |
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57
Beach Street
Staten Island, NY 10304
(718) 447-8700 / (718) 447-1962 |
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Areas of Practice |
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Commercial and Residential Real
Estate |
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Real Estate Litigation |
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Mortgage Foreclosures |
| Banking Law |
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Bankruptcy and Creditor's Rights |
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Will Drafting |
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Estate Planning |
| Elder Law |
| Probate & Estate Administration |
| Guardianship Proceedings |
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Business and Corporate Law |
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Matrimonial and Family Law |
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General Commercial Litigation |
| Hospital Law |
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Commercial and Residential Real
Estate
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 Our
attorneys have extensive experience in all aspects of
residential and commercial real estate transactions and can
provide the following services: offer advice on financing;
negotiate your contract; review and prepare leases; review the
offering plan and proprietary lease for condominium and
cooperative units; prepare condominium declarations and offering
plans for developers; prepare covenants, restrictions,
easements, and right of way agreements; obtain title insurance
for Buyers and Lenders; assist in resolving title objections for
Sellers; prepare deeds, state and local transfer tax returns;
review loan documents; prepare note and mortgage for private
loan transactions; coordinate and attend the closing.
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Real Estate Litigation
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We handle both residential and
commercial property mortgage foreclosures, as
well as re-foreclosures, partition
actions, adverse possession and boundary line disputes, street demappings, condemnations, tax
certioraris and various other property disputes.
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Mortgage Foreclosures
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 Hall
& Hall, LLP represents major financial institutions in mortgage
foreclosure matters for both residential and commercial properties from
their inception through public auctions and the sale of real estate owned
properties.
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| Banking
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 Hall & Hall, LLP has extensive experience in State and Federal Banking Law
issues in a
variety of contexts including the areas of lending, deposits, operations, compliance and
regulatory matters. In the lending area, we frequently
advise clients on a
variety of issues including the proper structuring of
commercial transactions,
letters of credit transactions, and issues regarding the creation and perfection
of security interests. We also address numerous
questions involving the
extensive regulation of lending under various laws and
regulations including the
Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act (Reg X), the
Truth in Lending Act (Reg Z),
Equal Credit Opportunity Act (Reg B), just to
name a few. On the deposit and
operations side, we frequently advise clients
on issues involving negotiable
instruments and the bank collection process,
forgeries and other claims or
issues that arise under Articles 3 and 4 of the
Uniform Commercial Code (UCC).
We also advise banking clients on various
issues that arise with deceased or
incompetent depositors, adverse claims as
well as compliance with executions,
levies and subpoenas that are served on
financial institutions. In
addition, we routinely advise our Bank clients on a
vast array of general corporate issues
that arise in the complex and rapidly
evolving financial world.
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Bankruptcy and Creditors' Rights
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 Hall & Hall, LLP handles cases protecting the rights of
creditors in Bankruptcy
Court and in non-bankruptcy situations. When
creditors' rights become
entangled with a Debtor’s Bankruptcy, we quickly
and aggressively pursue the
most effective strategy for preserving the collateral and collecting the
debt.
In this regard,
we have successfully handled countless motions for relief from
the automatic stay, actions to determine debts to be non dischargeable in
bankruptcy, and a
variety of other proceedings to protect our clients. We have also
successfully defended many creditor clients against the powerful weapons of
the Bankruptcy
Trustee in areas such as equitable subordination actions and,
preference litigation, as well as winning fraudulent conveyance actions and
priority disputes
among claimants. Outside of the Bankruptcy Court, Hall &
Hall, LLP has
extensive experience in collection and enforcement of money
judgments.
We diligently pursue debtors and their assets in a variety of
contexts, including real estate foreclosures, fraudulent conveyance
actions,
mechanics lien foreclosures and UCC Article 9 procedures (both
judicial and non-judicial).
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Will Drafting and Estate Planning |
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Our attorneys have extensive experience in Will Drafting and Estate Planning.
Estate Tax planning has helped our clients save hundreds of thousands of
dollars
in estate taxes. Business succession planning has proved to be of great
concern
among our clients with a closely held business. By devising a prudent
plan of
gift giving of minority interest we have preserved control on the part of
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older generation during its life-time and secured valuable discounts
reducing
the taxable estate of the creator of the business. In addition, our
attorneys
understand, that every Will or Trust, no matter how modest the
testator’s or
grantor’s estate, should be regarded as a challenge in how most
effectively to
transmit our clients’ wishes. See our Legal
Links web page for useful links to other sites that offer further
information on Wills and Estate Planning. |
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Elder Law
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 Hall &
Hall, LLP understood some
years ago, that the needs of our elderly
clients are unique: asset protection
planning; health concerns and elder care
all deserve our attorneys’ careful
attention. Our attorneys have developed the expertise and resources to
efficiently represent the elderly client. See our Legal
Links web page for useful links to other sites that offer further
information on Elder Law.
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| Probate
and Estate Administration |
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Our firm is known for its meticulous attention to detail in administering
decedent’s estates, whether the decedent died with or without a Will. Post-
death tax planning constitutes an important part of our work. Family
relations,
often strained by the death of a member, present an opportunity for
our attorneys
to employ their interpersonal skills in preserving and
strengthening family ties.
In addition, our attorneys have successfully
litigated probate disputes. See our Legal
Links web page for useful links to other sites that offer further
information on Probate and Living Trust Resources. |
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Proceedings
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At times, the only way in which vital decisions can be made for the incompetent
person, or protection may be afforded to a person with diminished capacity, is
to commence a Guardianship Proceeding. Our attorneys have successfully represented petitioners in various types of Guardianship Proceedings. In a
recent case,
the attorney-in-fact of one of our elderly clients, had
misappropriated the client’s funds and, to shield herself from scrutiny by his
many friends, she had spirited him away to another state. Our Firm commenced a
Guardianship Proceeding as well
as a Habeas Corpus (lit. "produce the
body") proceeding. The wrong-doer was
forced to reveal the whereabouts of
her ward and further mischief was avoided. |
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Business and Corporate Law
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 This area of practice includes the
formation of corporations, partnerships, limited partnerships, limited liability
partnerships and limited liability companies. In addition the review and
preparation of stockholders agreements, partnership agreements and the limited
liability company operating agreements is an integral
part of the
practice. Agreements for the purchase and sale of businesses as well as
employment contracts are prepared, negotiated and reviewed.
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Matrimonial and Family Law
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 Hall & Hall, LLP maintains a substantial family
law practice in the States of New York and New Jersey. We have represented clients in matters
involving divorce, custody and visitation, child support, family violence, and property
distribution. We are aware of the special concerns unique to our matrimonial clients, and we
strive to
give the personal attention that each client requires Family law practitioners often perform many
functions in the course of representing a client, and our attorneys in this field are trained to undertake
these roles in both a professional
and sympathetic manner. We also understand that many of our
clients require emergent and necessary assistance from courts of appropriate jurisdiction, and
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achieved significant results to protect the safety of our clients, to preserve the custodial and visitation
rights of our clients with children, and to maintain the financial well-being of our clients with issues
as to support and marital property. We have been successful in this area by following certain
obvious but often over- looked standards of practice: preparation, determination and common
sense. Just as many cases can and should be settled without court intervention, certain
cases
too cannot be resolved without aggressive representation by our lawyers. The family law client requires an attorney that can undertake
the best approach suitable for his or her own situation, and we are diligent in providing
representation as circumstances require.
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General Commercial Litigation
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 Our
Commercial Litigation practice has
included the successful prosecution as
well as defense work in cases involving
disputes between businesses and those
among its principals, in addition to
secured transactions commercial paper and banking litigation.
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Hospital Law
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The firm has negotiated leases, real estate acquisitions, computer contracts,
medical equipment leases, and employment agreements for a major medical
center. It has been involved in consent issues and termination of life
support
issues. It has negotiated provider contracts between physicians
and hospitals. The firm also handles mental hygiene law proceedings
dealing with retention and transfer to long term care facilities. |
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maintains an office in Tinton
Falls, NJ |
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