Practice Areas
- Business Law
- The firm handles a wide range of business and transactional matters
for small, family-owned businesses and large closely held and publicly
owned corporations in areas as diverse as timber, paper manufacturing,
investments, franchises, professional corporations, and real estate.
We provide assistance in planning, organizing and forming corporations,
limited liability companies and other business entities. We also assist
our clients in negotiating contracts and in the sale and dissolution
of their businesses.
- Civil Litigation
- The firm handles litigation matters in state courts including litigation
related to business transactions, real property, foreclosure, collection,
personal injury, and wrongful death.
- Commercial Real Estate
- Our real estate practice includes representing clients in commercial
real property transactions and development projects. We represent
numerous real estate developers in our area and routinely negotiate,
draft, and interpret various documents associated with the acquisition,
development, leasing, and sale of commercial properties.
- Estate Administration
- We work with personal representatives and fiduciaries in probate, estate and trust
administration. We help guide executors, administrators, trustees
and guardians through the entire estate administration and settlement
process. This guidance includes assisting our clients by
- Probating wills
- Qualifying executors, administrators, trustees and guardians
- Collecting information to properly administer the estate
- Preparing estate accountings
- Assembling information for income tax returns
- Preparing estate tax returns
- Assembling information for payment of debts and expenses of the
estate
- Distributing assets to beneficiaries
- Municipal Law
- We represent the Town of Weldon and Roanoke Rapids Housing Authority and
advise both on a variety of legal matters concerning these local government
entities. We also represent clients before other local governmental
bodies on matters including annexation, subdivision issues, permitting,
zoning and ad valorem tax matters.
- Residential Real Estate
- We represent buyers, sellers, developers and lenders with various
legal issues involving residential real estate. We have an experienced
group of attorneys, paralegals and legal assistants who work with
our clients to make each transaction as efficient as possible. We
provide individual title examinations, prepare and supervise closings,
and disburse funds for both purchases and refinances. We guide our
clients through the closing process and work closely with banks and
real estate agents to coordinate a final closing of each residential
transaction.
- Our firm’s client list includes borrowers, lenders, banks, title
insurance companies, homebuilders and real estate agents. We provide
services in various areas, including
- Review of Offer to Purchase and Contracts
- Preparation and review of closing documents for purchases, refinances
and construction loans
- Title examinations
- Preparation and review of Lease Agreements
- Real estate closing services
- Foreclosures
- Deed preparation
- Wills and Estate Planning
- We represent clients in planning for the efficient transfer and
preservation of their assets. We work with our clients in the preparation
of wills, powers of attorney (financial and health care), living wills,
and living trusts (revocable and irrevocable).
- Zoning, Planning & Land Use
- We assist individual and business clients with issues that arise
through zoning and land use, including compliance with zoning ordinances
and matters pertaining to permitting and subdivision issues. We work
closely with city and county planning departments and their attorneys
to identify and resolve the issues that need to be addressed.
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- The publication of this web site is not intended to constitute the practice
of law in any jurisdiction in which the attorneys in the firm are not
licensed to practice law. The publication of this web site is not intended
to solicit legal work that would be performed in any jurisdiction in which
no attorneys in the firm are licensed to practice law. Attorneys in the
firm are currently licensed to practice law in the State of North Carolina.
- If you have any questions about the matters addressed in this Disclaimer,
please contact William O. White, Jr. at wowhite@rrlawnc.com.