Personal Injury
When you’ve been hurt in an accident, it’s important to remember that you only get one chance to properly heal and recover. It’s unfortunate, but even after the physical pain, the endless paperwork, and mounting medical bills, it’s common for those who’ve been injured to get unfair treatment by insurance companies, corporations, or even inadequate help or representation from their personal injury law firm.
Civil Litigation
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Landlord Representation
A landlord tenant dispute can result in significant losses for either party. Whether you suffered a breach of lease, are facing eviction or need to evict a tenant, or you want to know about leasing rights, you need the assistance of a skilled commercial and residential landlord tenant attorney. Our firm has decades of experience in asserting the rights of our landlord and tenant clients.
Proven Accident Injury Attorneys
When you’ve been hurt in an accident, it’s important to remember that you only get one chance to properly heal and recover. It’s unfortunate, but even after the physical pain, the endless paperwork, and mounting medical bills, it’s common for those who’ve been injured to get unfair treatment by insurance companies, corporations, or even inadequate help or representation from their personal injury law firm.
Evans, Dove, Nelson, Fish & Grier P.L.C, makes sure that you receive honest representation and just compensation. Whether it is our experience on the insurance side of the industry or representing our client, we have handled thousands of claims and understand the process. Some of the types of personal injury cases that we can assist you with include:
• Future loss of wages
• Medical bills
• Transportation costs
• Rehabilitation treatment center costs
• Pain and suffering
No one likes to deal with insurance companies and claims, as it can be complicated and frustrating to cut through red tape and receive conflicting information. From the moment of the injury, we can bear this burden for you so you can focus on your recovery. If you are in a position of having no health insurance and cannot afford to pay for the doctor, we can arrange medical help by having the payments deferred until the settlement is made. Some of the medical help we can arrange includes:
• Board certified spine surgeons
• Board certified plastic surgeons
• Physical Therapists
We can help arrange visits with sub-specialists that are experts in treating patients with your particular injury. We can find and recommend doctors who have advanced training in their specialty including foot, ankle, knee, hand, and spine doctors.
Experienced Arizona Civil Litigation Attorneys
At Evans, Dove, Nelson, Fish & Grier, we have highly skilled litigation attorneys capable of handling even the most complex litigation. Our attorneys confer with our clients at every step of the litigation process to make sure our clients understand what is happening and can give meaningful input. We can represent our clients in state or federal courts, including trial and appellate litigation. If you need a litigation attorney, you have come to the right law firm.
Types of Litigation
Our civil litigation attorneys pride themselves on being practical, result-oriented lawyers. We are skilled, proven advocates who are well acquainted with handling a broad variety of lawsuits, including the following:
• Brain injuries
• Car accidents
• Collections
• Construction defects and accidents
• Consumer protection
• Contracts
• Elder law
• Employment law
• Energy law
• Evictions
• Insurance defense
• Medical malpractice
• Personal injury
• Premises liability
• Products liability
• Real estate
• Sexual harassment
• Subrogation
• Toxic torts
• Work site accidents
• Workers compensation
• Wrongful death
• Wrongful termination
We regularly represent both companies and individuals in court, as well as in mediations and arbitrations. We also employ investigators, paralegals, and clerks, and utilize the latest technology to build and manage our clients’ cases in the most efficient and cost-effective way possible.
Landlord Representation
A landlord tenant dispute can result in significant losses for either party. Whether you suffered a breach of lease, are facing eviction or need to evict a tenant, or you want to know about leasing rights, you need the assistance of a skilled commercial and residential landlord tenant attorney. Our firm has decades of experience in asserting the rights of our landlord and tenant clients.
Our landlord tenant real estate attorneys can assist you with all of the following:• Residential and commercial leasing
• Residential and commercial eviction, including constructive evictions
• Property abandonment
• Landlord tenant disputes and litigation
Landlord-tenant litigation
We specialize in litigating landlord tenant disputes. If you have suffered from a breach of contract, are facing eviction, or want to legally force a tenant off of your property, we can advise you on how to legally proceed and protect your rights in litigation. We have the benefit of both transactional and courtroom experience to ensure you are protected at every stage of the legal process.
Commercial leasing
Commercial leasing contracts are complex and involve a number of rights and obligations for both landlords and tenants. Whether you are experienced in commercial leasing or you are entering into your first contract, our attorneys can review or draft a commercial contract and explain all of your rights and obligations to prevent future disputes. If a commercial lease has already been prepared for you, we can review the contract on your behalf and revise it to ensure your rights are protected.Landlords’ Rights
As a landlord you must protect your property and your rights. Unfortunately, there are very strict laws prohibiting certain actions. When you need advice on how to protect your property and take appropriate legal action with regard to a commercial or residential tenant, we can help. Our attorneys are experienced in all transactions and litigation involving landlords’ rights.
Tenants’ Rights
When you rent commercial or residential property, you will usually enter into a lease drafted by the landlord. Before you enter into a contract, our attorneys will help you understand all of your rights and obligations to prevent future litigation. We are experienced in the complexities of Arizona landlord tenant law and provide you with the support and advocacy you need to protect your rights.
Land Use and Zoning
We also specialize in all aspects of land use and zoning from assisting in getting your project started and anticipating obstacles to obtaining the necessary regulatory approvals to entitle and develop your project. We represent the interests of commercial developers, major land owners as well as large and small residential owners to secure governmental land use approvals.
Our attorneys work closely with clients on strategic planning and work cooperatively with state and local governments and agencies in the following areas:- Land use due diligence and analysis
- Conditional uses, variances and nonconforming uses
- Annexations and boundary extensions
- Administrative and judicial proceedings
- Drafting, modifying and updating city zoning ordinance
- Tax increment financing arrangements
- Development and implementation of Special Improvement Districts
- Appeals and enforcement of impact fee issues
- Development agreements
- Transit-oriented developments
- Land use due diligence and analysis
- Conditional uses, variances and nonconforming uses
- Annexations and boundary extensions
- Administrative and judicial proceedings
- Drafting, modifying and updating city zoning ordinance
- Tax increment financing arrangements
- Development and implementation of Special Improvement Districts
- Appeals and enforcement of impact fee issues
- Development agreements
- Transit-oriented developments
Projects include:
- Subdivisions, partitions, property line adjustments and legal lot lines
- Drafting and editing city zoning codes in cities throughout Arizona
- Development of large transit-oriented projects, commercial and residential projects
- Negotiating and drafting development agreements related to large commercial and residential developments
- Assisting with conditional use permits for difficult uses
- Defending or appealing adverse claims from neighbors and opponents of controversial projects
Family Law
Divorces are emotional and difficult, and every case presents a unique set of facts and legal issues. Evans, Dove, Nelson, Fish & Grier has helped thousands of clients get through their divorce with swift resolution and optimal results.
As we work through the issues in your divorce, whether we are in court together or sitting at the negotiation table, we want you to feel our high level of experience and client care. The following issues are among those we often address in our divorce matters:
Child custody: Ideally, child custody and parent-time would be agreed upon between the parents according to the best interests of their children; however custody is often contested. The good news is that disputes regarding child custody can usually be worked out in mediation without lengthy and contentious litigation. In the event custody is contested, EDNFG takes time to understand the needs of your children and to pursue the best possible outcome as aggressively as needed for your case.
Child support: In Arizona, child support is set by statutory guidelines (http://www.utcourts.gov/childsupport/calculator). If disputes arise with child support, it is usually related to determining the income of a self-employed spouse or the "imputed income" of a spouse who is not working or underemployed. We can ensure that a fair amount is calculated for child support.
Alimony: The court can award alimony, or spousal support, in appropriate cases. The amount and duration of alimony is at the discretion of the Court and is based on factors unique to your circumstances, including the financial condition and needs of the recipient spouse, the recipient spouse's earning capacity or ability to earn income, and the ability of the paying spouse to provide support. Alimony is often contested, and whether you are seeking support or will be responsible for paying support, we will give you a candid assessment of your alimony position and seek the best result for your facts.
Property division: Arizona courts use a two-step process to divide property. First, the court decides what is marital property and what is non-marital property. Property acquired during the marriage is presumed to be marital property; however, property brought into the marriage or received by gift or inheritance during the marriage is usually found to be non-marital property. Arizona requires an equitable division of marital property, which in most instances means a 50-50 division. Non-marital property is usually not divided between parties. We have extensive experience resolving disputes in property division, large estates, and division of complex business assets.
Modifications: We represent clients seeking changes to an existing Decree of Divorce and those who are contesting changes. A material and substantial change in circumstances may merit a change in custody, child support, alimony, or other provisions in your Decree. In many modification cases, the losing party is ordered to pay the prevailing party's attorney fees making it essential to get the best possible advice in pursuing or defending against a modification. Most of our modification cases are settled early in mediation. We will review your modification case and advise you on how to get the best result.
Contempt: It may be appropriate to file a contempt action if your ex-spouse if not obeying your Decree of Divorce, or you may find yourself served with a contempt action against you. Contempt actions usually require a court hearing to resolve, and the court can impose judgment against the disobedient party, including paying the prevailing party's attorney's fees, and in certain cases, fines or jail time. We can best advise you on pursuing or defending your contempt action.