F I R M  O V E R V I E W

HAWKINS LAW LLC provides legal services to individuals and businesses located primarily in north and central Alabama. Our focus practice areas are Family Law, Estate Planning, Probate Proceedings, Business Law, Litigation and Appeals. We are located in the Snead Building, 261 S. Main Street in downtown Arab, Alabama.

We combine years of big law firm experience with our current small firm practice model, which enables us to offer our clients a combination of experience and efficiency at affordable costs. Our staff is committed to serving the needs of our clients with excellence and enthusiasm. Each client receives the personal and prompt attention that a client deserves.

P R A C T I C E   A R E A S

FAMILY LAW

We have a full-service Family Law Practice that includes contested and non-contested divorces, child custody and visitation, child support awards and enforcement, post-minority support, modification proceedings, asset protection issues, paternity determination proceedings, adoptions, grandparent rights and restraining orders stemming from domestic abuse. We represent family law clients from all walks of life.

Our family law clients include business owners and executives who need to protect their ownership interests in the case of divorce, couples or relatives considering adoption, grandparents who want to establish visitation or custody rights, parents of special needs children who may be eligible to receive post-minority support and victims or those accused of domestic abuse who may need the protection of the courts.

We recognize that many of our clients, their children and loved-ones are involved in stressful and complex personal and legal situations and we strive to provide the representation, assistance and guidance that will enable them to move forward with their lives.  We also handle appeals from adverse rulings in litigated cases if we believe the issues to be appealed have merit.

ESTATE PLANNING AND PROBATE

The Estate Planning and Probate Practice includes consultation and planning sessions with clients who may need basic estate planning documents including Wills, Powers of Attorneys and Advance Health Care Directives. Many of our clients are choosing revocable living trusts as an alternative to traditional wills, and some require more advanced or special needs trust planning. We provide the planning and implementation services necessary to ensure that our clients are addressing their individual needs in order to maximize estate benefits and protect and preserve estate assets. 

Our Probate Practice includes the representation of Personal Representatives, beneficiaries, guardians and fiduciaries in Probate and Estate Administration Proceedings and Will challenges. We also handle Guardianship and Conservatorship proceedings and other matters that originate in Probate Court.

BUSINESS AND CORPORATE

The Business and Corporate practice includes entity selection and formation services, corporation, limited liability and partnership organizational documents, shareholder and founder agreements, buy-sell agreements, acquisitions, non-compete, non-solicitation and confidentiality agreements, stock option documents, employee handbooks, human resource and compliance counseling, commercial litigation, real estate litigation and standard property conveyances.

We believe our experience in business and corporate matters complement our Family Law and Estate Planning and Probate Practices. For example, in a growing number of cases, we are called upon to provide representation for entrepreneurs and shareholders who are concerned with the protection of business assets and ownership issues if divorce is a possibility. The business side of divorce is ever-prevalent in property settlement agreements or litigated distribution and award scenarios. Our goal is to provide the business advice to our clients that will enable decision-making that enhances their economic outcomes.

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