Knowledgeable Lincoln, Nebraska, Lawyers
Ballew Covalt, PC, LLO serves the legal needs of people and businesses throughout Nebraska. We also serve as local counsel for out-of-state residents. Our principals have over 50 years of combined legal experience.
Contact our office, located in Lincoln, Nebraska, at 402-436-3030 to schedule a confidential consultation.
About Our Practice
Although we handle many legal issues, we concentrate on four practice areas: bankruptcy litigation, divorce and family law, estate planning and probate, and business planning and litigation.
Divorce and Family Law
Our divorce and family law practice includes:
- Adoptions
- Child custody and visitation
- Child support
- Divorce
- Domestic violence
- Fair division of marital assets
- Juvenile law
- Prenuptial agreements
- Spousal support, alimony
- Tracking down diverted and secreted assets
- Valuation of properties
Business Planning and Litigation
Since we have considerable business litigation experience, when we help in the business planning phase, we keep in mind the issues that normally arise in litigation. Our experience includes:
- Business organization (limited partnerships, limited liability companies, limited liability corporations)
- Contract development, drafting and negotiating
- Contract litigation (construction contracts, construction liens)
- Contractor issues
- Debtor and creditor issues
- Employer and employee contracts
- Litigating creditor's rights (to recover debt or assets)
Bankruptcy Litigation
We primarily represent creditors in bankruptcy actions. We focus on:
- Handling issues such as preference recovery, fraudulent conveyance and unauthorized post-petition transactions
- Helping counties recover unpaid real estate taxes
- Recovering assets for secured creditors
Estate Planning and Probate
We help our clients plan for distribution of their assets and we help shepherd their estates through the probate process. Our services include:
- Asset evaluation
- Disputes over administration of assets
- Drafting and reviewing wills
- Experience with options to transfer property to avoid probate
- Family trusts, marital trusts, revocable trusts
- Formal, informal and hybrid probate
- Health care powers of attorney
- Living wills
- Probate and estate administration
- Recovery of fraudulent transfers
- Widows' elective shares
- Will contests
Other Capabilities
We also handle real estate transactions, loan documentation and lending transactions surety, construction liens and foreclosures, fidelity bond litigation, personal injury and civil litigation. Due to our long-term experience, we have an extensive network of appraisers, accountants and experts to help us represent your case aggressively in trial.
If you need legal services in an area we do not normally provide, we will exert every effort to find you an attorney who does.
Contact Ballew Covalt, PC, LLO to schedule a confidential consultation.
We are a debt relief agency. We help people file for bankruptcy relief under the Bankruptcy Code.
Ballew Covalt, PC, LLO
1045 Lincoln Mall
Suite 200
Lincoln, NE 68508-2966
P. O. Box 81229
Lincoln, NE 68501
Phone: 402-436-3030
Fax: 402-436-3031
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