Nashville, Tennessee Family Law, Divorce and Estate Planning Lawyer

Ewing Law Office LLC

222 2nd Avenue N, Suite 419 Nashville, Tennessee 37201-1650 USA

 (615) 800-3720 or (866) 959-4482
 (615) 713-5161

www.divorceinnashville.com
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At the Ewing Law Office, LLC, we don’t just see the problems created by your divorce, but we offer solutions. We believe that financial concerns during a divorce can be addressed and managed, leading to results that work for you. In addition, we believe that comprehensive help in navigating the divorce process can reduce your stress, leaving you free to do what's most important — care for the emotional needs of yourself and your family.

Attorney Lisa Millican Ewing has first-hand experience with divorce, being a single mother and having a blended family. Ms. Ewing has also been a court-appointed special advocate for children. From these experiences, Ms. Ewing entered family law with the specific goal of better serving the divorce and family law needs of people in the Nashville area through representation that efficiently addresses their emotional and financial concerns.

The fear of financial insecurity during your divorce or separation does not have to keep you awake at night. At the Ewing Law Office LLC, we focus our family law practice on helping people navigate through your divorce. We want you to be in the best position possible to take care of yourself and the ones you love. Contact us today to discuss how we can help you. We represent clients in Davidson, Williamson, Rutherford, Sumner, and Wilson counties and throughout Middle Tennessee.

Practice Areas

Practice Areas Description

- Divorce

Divorce makes numerous demands on your emotions and on your property. While these demands are sometimes unavoidable, they can be greatly relieved with the help of an experienced, resourceful and cost-effective divorce lawyer. At the Ewing Law Office, LLC, our goal is to handle the legal aspects of your divorce, leaving you with the peace of mind to concentrate on the decisions that will most benefit you and your family, and to care for yourself and for your loved ones. We have handled a broad range of legal challenges related to family law and divorce, including mediation, which is often required by the courts, the drafting of prenuptial agreements and the filing of injunctions to stop harassment, the bad mouthing of another parent and the cancellation of insurance policies.

- Property Division

If you face asset and debt division challenges in a pending divorce, contact Ewing Law Office LLC for effective legal representation to protect your rights and your share of the marital property. Lawyer Lisa Millican Ewing brings an impressive financial background to each divorce and property division case. Her background includes: A degree in business management with a major in accounting; and founder, owner and manager of her own consulting firm, MedAccounts Inc. We can perform a complete assessment of your finances and those of your spouse in order to accurately determine the martial assets and debts and the separate assets and debts. In addition, we can work to protect your ownership rights in your professional practice or business, real estate, bank and retirement accounts, or a closely held or family-owned business.

- Complex Asset Division

When your divorce involves substantial or complex property, dividing your assets involves more than decisions about who gets the house. Equitable distribution of professional practices, family-owned businesses, investments, inherited property and other complex assets requires the assistance of an attorney with considerable financial knowledge. Family law attorney Lisa Millican Ewing has the financial background to resolve the issues of complex asset division effectively. In addition to being a divorce lawyer, Attorney Ewing has an undergraduate degree in business management with a major in accounting. Before launching her legal career, she ran her own professional consulting firm.

- Child Custody

Parenting orders (child custody and visitation orders) include both legal and physical custody. Both parents are intended to have meaningful parenting time, and both are generally granted legal custody so they can make important decisions about their children's education, religion, and health care. Every family's situation is unique, and it is possible to negotiate many different physical custody arrangements. For example: Sole custody — The children live with one parent and it has been found not to be in the children's best interest to have unsupervised parenting time with the other parent; Primary custody — The children live primarily with one of the parents and the other parent has standard visitation rights, including overnights, holidays and summer vacations; Joint custody — The children split their time living with both parents. In rare cases, parents may chose to change their living situation (moving between living in the family home and in an apartment) rather than have their children move; and split custody.

- Child Support Orders

In Tennessee, child support is calculated by a standard formula which takes into account each parent's net income and child-related expenses such as costs for daycare, school, and medical insurance. Attorney Ewing's accounting background is a valuable asset for clients who need to ensure their child support is based on a fair and complete picture of both parents' income and expenses. When your financial or living circumstances change, you may be able to obtain a modification of your child support order, and attorney Ewing can assist you in petitioning for one.

- Modification of Parenting Plans

Support and custody agreements are designed to meet your needs and those of your children based on current economic and time resources. If your situation has changed substantially, you may be in a position to seek a modification of your existing child custody, visitation, or support order. At the Ewing Law Office LLC, we are experienced in helping parents change their child custody, visitation, or support arrangements when their needs change. Attorney Lisa Millican Ewing works with parents who have been laid off or whose hours or pay has been slashed. She works with military parents who move frequently because of reassignments. She works with parents who need to move to another state, or another part of the state, because of job or family obligations.

- Fathers' Rights

Fathers have historically faced unique challenges when fighting for their family law rights. Laws and courts were unabashedly biased against fathers in disputes involving child and spousal support, and child custody. Today, that bias is largely gone. Courts are leaning away from a single custodial parent and toward the legally mandated preference for joint, fifty-fifty parenting involving both the mother and father. Despite the strides that fathers have made, challenges still exist in overcoming the traditional parental roles. Courts and judges have discretion in deciding family law issues and are often still biased in favor of the mother when weighing facts and making decisions. In many instances, the assistance of an attorney with knowledge of fathers’ rights can tip the scale.

- Stepparent Adoptions

Family law attorney Lisa Millican Ewing makes sure every client understands the legal differences between the role of a stepparent and that of an adoptive parent. Once adopted, your former stepchild is legally your child forever, so this is a serious commitment. Stepparents who adopt their children have the same rights and responsibilities as biological parents. They have the authority to make medical and educational decisions, and are obligated to support their children financially. After the adoption is final, the children's other biological parent no longer has any child custody and visitation rights, and is no longer obligated to pay child support.

- Prenuptial Agreements

The idea that prenuptial agreements are "divorce planning" tools is, frankly, a misconception. In reality, prenuptial agreements are effective estate planning tools. At the Ewing Law Office LLC, we can help you develop a prenuptial agreement to protect your assets and make your decisions clear about how you would like your property distributed in the event of death or incapacity. Prenuptial agreements are sometimes viewed as cynical and counter to a loving relationship. Prenuptial agreements can serve other purposes, as well. They can protect the valuable assets individuals owned before getting married, including: 401(k) plans, pensions, and savings plans, insurance policies, real estate ventures and family-owned businesses.

- Estate Planning

f you own property and valuable other assets, you need at least a basic estate plan — a will and perhaps a simple trust — to protect your assets in the event of your death or incapacity. Without it, all your hard work could be negated by estate taxes, probate costs, attorney's fees, and even inheritance disputes. Just as important, we update wills and trusts after spouses have passed away or other changes have happened in the family. In our probate practice, we often discover wills that were written years ago and fail to reflect enormous changes. We see wills that leave assets to deceased spouses or fail to reflect the birth of new children or grandchildren. It is important that a will be updated whenever there is a death of a spouse or a child, birth of a child, divorce, or remarriage.

- Probate of Estates

Probate is the legal process of settling and resolving the estate of a deceased person by resolving all claims against his or her property, paying debts and distributing the remaining property to the deceased's heirs. The Ewing Law Office LLC provides efficient and cost-effective legal representation in assessing estate debts and assets, and in distributing property as quickly as possible. If your parent or another loved one has passed away, contact us for a free initial phone consultation regarding your probate options. Oftentimes, we can file what is known as a small estate affidavit that offers significant cost- and time-saving advantages. If the estate in question has less than $25,000 in assets and involves no real estate, an executor can easily close out the estate, pay the bills and distribute the funds.

- Guardianship and Conservatorship Proceedings

When family members are unable to care for themselves, the law provides a solution. Whether your parent is unable to manage financial decisions or your grandchildren need a caregiver with legal rights, we can help. At the Ewing Law Office LLC, we work closely with clients to establish conservatorships and guardianships. We work closely with families to help ensure the right person is named to make decisions on behalf of children or dependent adults. Conservatorships are one solution that can ensure your loved one obtains important care. Another solution is to create appropriate durable powers of attorney and health care powers of attorney (where are sometimes referred to as medical powers of attorney, healthcare proxies and living wills). When properly set up, these documents can replace the need for a conservatorship.

Attorneys

Ms. Lisa Millican Ewing Attorney Family Law

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