Serving Your Legal Needs
Dunton, Simmons & Dunton offers a general law practice for the benefit of individuals and business clients. Our firm is unique among rural law firms in that our practice is not limited to exclusively to the local area. Although much of our practice is conducted within an eight county area in eastern Virginia, we also represent major out-of-state clients, ranging from New Hampshire to Texas.
We currently represent approximately 350 corporate clients, as well as a significant number of individuals. While embracing a wide area of general practice, our firm offers concentrations in the following areas of law:
- Business and corporate law: Our attorneys assist business clients in a wide range of business and commercial law matters, including business formations, asset and stock sales and acquisitions, litigation, contracts, transactions and daily operations. Our goal is to provide lasting, comprehensive assistance that helps businesses thrive. We understand that we succeed when our clients succeed.
- Estate planning and probate: We offer simple and complex estate planning services, from simple wills to complex wills and trust documents. We are known for our trust practice, which includes the drafting of trust instruments as well as trust administration services. We offer comprehensive probate and estate administration services and handle probate disputes, including will contests, trust disputes, surviving spouses' elective shares, and other fiduciary litigation.
- Taxation: One of our firm's strengths is our ability to anticipate the tax consequences of particular cases. Our understanding of tax law is helpful to clients in a wide range of legal matters, including estate planning, probate and real estate. Visit our page on taxation to learn more.
- Civil litigation and appeals: Our experienced trial and appellate lawyers handle a wide range of civil litigation, including business disputes, corporate litigation, contract disputes, personal injury and wrongful death, real estate litigation, insurance disputes, construction litigation, riparian and boundary disputes, probate and fiduciary litigation, will contests, divorce, support, family law, marital property division, equitable distribution and most other forms of civil litigation and appeals.
- Real estate: We represent buyers, sellers, investors, developers, businesses and individuals in a broad range of real estate matters, including home purchases and sales, commercial real estate transactions, real estate litigation, title disputes, boundary disputes, commercial leases, real estate contracts, and zoning issues
- Divorce and family law: Some of the family law matters we handle include divorce, custody and visitation, child support, spousal support, property division, equitable distribution, modification of existing court orders, home relocation disputes and enforcement of court orders.
- Personal injury and wrongful death: We are committed to helping accident victims obtain the financial recovery they need and deserve. Our personal injury attorneys have helped hundreds of clients who have been injured or lost loved ones by the negligence and wrongdoing of others. Some of the personal injury and wrongful death claims we handle include car accidents, truck accidents, motorcycle accidents and premises liability claims.
Contact Our Lancaster County Lawyers
Since our firm represents clients in a wide range of general law matters, it is impossible to provide an extensive list of our legal services. If you have a legal matter that requires the personal assistance of an experienced attorney, we encourage you to contact our law office in White Stone, Virginia. For assistance, call 804-435-5069 or contact us by e-mail.
