Practice Areas

The following is a sample of the legal matters that our law firm handles. Please send us an e-mail or call us today at (207) 699-5553 to set up a free appointment to discuss your case.

West End Legal, LLC, assists both individuals and businesses facing bankruptcy to effectively and compassionately attend to their legal needs. We will counsel you on the best approach to filing Chapter 7 bankruptcy or Chapter 13 bankruptcy and help minimize your worries by advocating for you through the initial filing through your discharge, and appearing on your behalf in court. We handle both debtor and adversary cases. If you have a dispute with a credit card company, a mortgage company, or someone trying to collect money from you, we can represent you in negotiations with your creditors or in court to help you defend your case.

West End Legal, LLC, will compassionately assist you through your divorce, adoption, or parental rights action. We can also draft or review separation agreements, prenuptial agreements or other documents, and will help you enforce or modify support or custody orders after your divorce is over. Both of our attorneys re also trained and registered Guardians ad Litem, and can be appointed by the Court to investigate child custody issues and child placement in divorce proceedings. We have experience in settling disputes related to the termination of domestic partnerships and de facto parent actions.

We handle everything for your business from incorporation of a new business to dissolution or stock transfers of existing businesses. We can act as your general counsel, prepare or review business documents, and act as your registered agent or clerk. We can collect debts on your behalf through court process, assist with civil litigation, advise you on purchase and sales of businesses, real estate, or equipment, prepare financing statements, and any other service that your business needs. We can draft and review all types of contracts, from services contracts, construction contracts, employment or non-compete contracts, severance agreements, promissory notes, and also contracts for sales of goods or options to purchase real estate. We can also take over your contract disputes and contract litigation.

If you have been fired from a job, denied housing, or denied credit because of your race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, physical or mental disability, religion, ancestry, national origin, familial or marital status, receipt of public assistance, or for any other reason prohibited by law, we can represent you in a complaint before the Maine Human Rights Commission or in a civil lawsuit in either state or federal court.

West End Legal, LLC can help you draft a living will, last will, discuss long-term care planning, discuss guardianship and conservatorship proceedings, and other end of life planning issues. We can also help you with trusts, powers of attorney or other documents in preparation for your estate. Planning your estate in advance can help you pass your property upon death without creating additional stress for your loved ones and ensures that your assets pass to your intended heir or heirs. If you need to probate an estate or undertake an action in the Probate Court, we handle a variety of probate cases, including formal and informal probate of an estate, guardian or conservator actions, will contests, or other matters.

West End Legal, LLC, offers a number of services for the Maine lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community. We can help with all aspects of making sure that you and your family are legally protected. We also have experience with settling or dissolving same-sex relationships, including handling child residency and visitation issues, and division of assets and debts. Our other services include co-parenting agreements, de facto parent cases, same-sex adoption, issues related to same-sex marriage, domestic partnership dissolution, estate planning, marriage and adoption portability questions, drafting a power of attorney for health care or a financial power of attorney, discrimination cases based on sexual orientation or gender identity, and issues related to the transgender or transsexual community, including changes in identity documents and name changes. We have experience in both lower and appellate courts fighting for our clients on these issues, and can provide testimonials.

West End Legal, LLC, offers a full range of real estate services. We prepare and review deeds, perform title searches and draft title opinions, can assist you with either the purchase or sale of a home of business, prepare and review mortgages, leases, and bonds. We also handle real estate litigation, including evictions, landlord/tenant litigation, foreclosure, boundary disputes, easements, quiet title actions, actions for partition, cases related to right-of-ways, timber trespass litigation, and any other real estate litigation that you may have.

Call or e-mail us today and ask us about our services!

(207) 699-5553

(207) 321-8419

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Payment plans available for most matters.

We accept credit cards.

West End Legal, LLC
200 High Street
Suite 1A
Portland ME 04101
info@westendlegal.com