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Upgrade Your Parenting Plan
Many parents are frustrated by oversight and lack of attention to detail in their child custody orders and parenting plans. We can help you upgrade your orders with comprehensive terminology and provisions to address the needs of your children and improve and enhance expectations between parents
How to Handle an Unreasonable Opposing Party
Transparency and patience are important concepts when dealing with an unreasonable opposing party in a lawsuit. By being upfront about your position, evidence, and willingness to negotiate, you can signal that you're not playing games or hiding information.
How to Make Your Case When Your Opponent has More Resources
By making good decisions early about who to hire as your counsel and what your desired outcome should realistically be for your type of case, you can make your money go further for your case.
Specialists
Individuals with legal issues can find specialized lawyers by seeking referrals from other attorneys, utilizing the few legitimate online legal directories such as Chambers and Partners or The Best Lawyers America, or searching academy or fellowship directories like the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers or the International Academy of Family Lawyers.
Chess, Not Checkers
A "Chess, Not Checkers" concept emphasizes strategic, long-term thinking and planning over short-term gains and reactive decision-making.
Bespoke Family Law Document Solutions
By utilizing advanced document generation technology, Bundy Law can efficiently produce high-quality documents at a lower cost than traditional legal drafting methods, allowing you to focus on your family and change in circumstances.
What to Expect from a Cheap Lawyer
Attorneys with higher rates are more likely to have transparency and a system that lets you smartly evaluate where to best put your money. They have reports and other data that lets them give you an estimate of attorney fees to anticipate for your type of case. In some cases, a lawyer whose rate is 3x or 4x that of their competitor may actually charge a lower total fee than the lower-priced attorney. Higher-priced, experienced lawyers are often more efficient and informative than lower-rate competitors, putting you in a better decision to make big-picture decisions and move your case along to resolution.
How We Bill
The law requires us to bill by the hour except for our work on injury cases. Our fee arrangement is called an "Evergreen" retainer, meaning that our clients maintain a pre-established amount in trust with us throughout our representation.
An Evergreen retainer requires the client to replenish the account whenever the balance falls below a predetermined minimum. This ensures that there are always sufficient funds to cover legal fees. As the lawyer provides legal services, they bill against the retainer. The fees are deducted from the trust account, and the client is notified of any remaining balance.
Evergreen retainers are more flexible than traditional retainers and provide both the lawyer and the client with a more predictable and efficient way to handle legal fees.
Above-the-Guidelines Child Support for HNW and UHNW Individuals
Child support calculators are designed to work for incomes ranging from upper-middle class to below the federal poverty level. The formulas cease to work when incomes exceed a certain amount per month. When your income exceeds your state’s child support ceiling, the court has discretion to make an “upward deviation” and require additional child support beyond the maximum obligation in the child support calculator.
Executive Compensation and Divorce
C-suite executives often receive a variety of compensation packages beyond traditional salary and bonuses. An expert is often needed to find and value compensation plans in a divorce involving a business executive.
Business Valuation
Business interests and investments are things of value and assets subject to valuation and division in a divorce. Business valuation is a complex process that requires specialized knowledge and skill.
The Unfairness of Emergencies
There are two major reasons that the damage from an unfair one-sided communication can’t be corrected simply by giving the other side a chance to speak and be heard later.
Emergency Custody
To request emergency custody of a child, the person seeking the emergency must be able to show that an emergency order is necessary because the child is in harm's way and will likely be irreparably harmed if the emergency is not granted.
Half of Your Half
This example illustrates why it is in your interest to hire experienced legal counsel as early as possible to help you avoid expensive and stressful scenarios like this one. It also shows that if divorce is imminent, it’s important to move forward proactively.
Preparing for Your First Meeting
There are preliminary steps you can take to have a quality first meeting and be better prepared for legal action when you hire us.