Proudly Serving the Southeastern Michigan Area
Estate, Tax & Legal Services
Adams Law, PLLC serves businesses and individuals in Southeastern Michigan. Our firm’s extensive expertise in estate and tax planning allows us to provide our clients with a full range of legal services.
Estate Planning
We prepare wills, trusts, powers of attorney and other documentation to meet the sophisticated estate planning needs of our clients. We assist in federal estate tax planning.
Tax Law
Our team includes a CPA and registered tax preparer with over thirty years of combined experience in areas ranging from IRS audits to business and individual tax return preparation.
Business Law
We handle all types of business transactions: the organization of corporations, partnerships and limited liability companies (LLCs), managing the purchase or sale of a business, and tax planning and compliance, just to name a few.
Other Legal Services
Additionally we assist our clients with contract law including business agreements, intellectual property licensing and landlord-tenant lease agreements to name a few. As well as property law including deeds, sales, transfers and more.
Providing Our Clients A Full Range of Legal Services
What We Do For You
Having a team of professionals that can assist you in your business and personal needs is so critical in today’s regulatory environment. Whether it’s dealing with wealth transfers, business succession planning, the IRS, employment issues the list goes on and on, the amount of paperwork becomes daunting. Clients must bring a team of professionals together to help them plan and move their businesses forward.
We are a family based practice consisting of tax attorneys, a CPA, a professional accountant, financial planning specialists and elder law attorneys. The professionals at Adams Law will make sure personal and business documents actually say what you believe they say and we can help you accomplish your estate, tax and business planning needs. It is extremely important to get your personal and business documents in order and updated on a regular basis.
Estate Planning
Adams Law is adept at formulating estate planning solutions based on our clients’ particular and individualized needs. We draft comprehensive probate-avoidance revocable trusts, as well as specialized asset protection, special needs, and wealth management irrevocable trusts. We assist our clients in the trust funding process, and we are equipped to handle trust administrations for pre-existing trusts.
Tax Preparation & Compliance
Each of our attorneys are licensed tax preparers and are eligible to practice in U.S. Tax Court. Every tax year, we prepare over 500 tax returns for our individual, partnership, corporate, trust and estate clients. We can recommend advance tax planning based on individual needs as well as mitigate and resolve outstanding liability for our clients. We regularly engage with the IRS in tax audits and can help understand IRS correspondence regarding compliance issues.
General Corporate & Business
Our business services run the gamut; we advise in all matters from planning to formation, and merger & acquisition to dissolution. Business planning involves everything from filing articles of formation with Michigan’s Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs, to drafting customized operating agreements, bylaws, and partnership agreements to accommodate each respective business structure. We are also able to discuss with proficiency the various available taxation structures and elections from which to choose.
Contracts
Contract law is multi-faceted and includes business agreements, intellectual property licensing, landlord-tenant lease agreements, commercial developments, real estate settlement service agreements, employment agreements, loan agreements, and more. We commonly draft, interpret and negotiate contracts, and we often advise our clients on their rights and available remedies.
Property
Deeds, sales, transfers, mortgages, and various forms of ownership are all topics on which we advise.