QUESTIONS? HOW CAN WE HELP?

Our clients’ time constraints often require us to delay responses to these kinds of inquiries or comments for a few days, so please be patient with us.

We ask service providers to understand that our clients’ time constraints often require us to delay responses to inquiries for a few days, so please be patient with us.

Our staff will pass this message to the lawyer you are seeking. We try to follow-up within one business day.

NOTE: Jeff and Jennifer Hawkins are licensed to practice law in Indiana and Jeff Hawkins is licensed to practice law in Illinois. If your question concerns a state other than Indiana or Illinois, we will need to refer you to counsel licensed to practice law in that state.

Your answer to this question will help us respond to you more quickly and appropriately.

Your answer to this question will help us respond to you more quickly and appropriately. If the location is too distant from Sullivan, Indiana, we may refer you to the nearest reputable local counsel to serve you more effectively.

Your selection of one of the descriptions below will help us identify what area of legal expertise a lawyer must have to respond to your question or interest.

If the matter involves you and another person, please indicate that the matter involves you.

If the person uses a short version of the first name, such as "Bob" or "Beth," please use the full or long version of the name, such as "Robert" or "Elizabeth" unless the person's legal name is the short version.

Don't worry if you don't have all the information. Please give us whatever information you can provide.

Your answer to this question will help us locate files or records that may help us serve you more effectively.

Your answer will help us locate your file more quickly.

Please provide the business name or other memorable detail to help us locate the relevant file for that matter.

Please give the family member's name, the Hawkins Elder Law lawyer's name, and a brief description of the lawyer's involvement in the matter.

If you're not sure which phrase is the best fit, don't worry. Please give it your best shot and we'll follow up to help you get us up to speed with the details later.

If the person used a short version of the first name, such as "Bob" or "Beth," please use the full or long version of the name, such as "Robert" or "Elizabeth" unless the person's legal name was the short version.

Please give the name of the city or town where the person lived received mail, or that was listed on the person's driver's license or other records. If you know the county, please also give the county name. Essentially, what would the person have called "home."

Please let us know the family relationship, If any, between you and the deceased person.

If you are the person suffering from an illness or injury, remaining questions will focus on you.

If the person uses a short version of the first name, such as "Bob" or "Beth," please use the full or long version of the name, such as "Robert" or "Elizabeth" unless the person's legal name is the short version.

Please let us know the family relationship, if any, between you and the ill or injured person.

NOTE: If the matter concerns one of our current or past clients, the Rules of Professional Conduct may prohibit us from discussing the matter with you. We will try to preserve your privacy about this inquiry to the extent permitted under the Rules of Professional Conduct. If we refer you to other legal counsel, your responses to these questions will help us connect you with a reputable lawyer or law firm. Hawkins Elder Law has not yet accepted responsibility to advise or represent you or a person you are trying to help. The firm will not be responsible for any harm that may result from failure to respond to a summons or notice of a court hearing unless the firm agrees to become involved in the case. Your communication to us in this form does not create an attorney-client relationship. Therefore, the information that you provide may not be protected by the attorney-client privilege of confidentiality. However, we will try to preserve your privacy to the extent permitted under the Rules of Professional Conduct. If we refer you to other legal counsel, your responses to these questions will help us connect you with a reputable lawyer or law firm.

We want to know which person is the focus of the tensions. For example, this person may be an elderly person whom someone believes needs nursing home care, or the person may be a deceased person about whose assets other people may be arguing.

We don’t need all the details. We just need to understand what kind of tension or dispute you want to discuss. Basically, what's the fuss about?

NOTE: If the matter concerns one of our current or past clients, the Rules of Professional Conduct may prohibit us from discussing the matter with you. We will try to preserve your privacy about this inquiry to the extent permitted under the Rules of Professional Conduct. Hawkins Elder Law has not yet accepted responsibility to advise or represent you or a person you are trying to help. The firm will not be responsible for any harm that may result from failure to respond to a summons or notice of a court hearing unless the firm agrees to become involved in the case. Your communication to us in this form does not create an attorney-client relationship. Therefore, the information that you provide may not be protected by the attorney-client privilege of confidentiality. However, we will try to preserve your privacy to the extent permitted under the Rules of Professional Conduct. If we refer you to other legal counsel, your responses to these questions will help us connect you with a reputable lawyer or law firm.

The words "cause number" or "case number" may precede the number, and the number may include a combination of letters and numbers. Please provide the number exactly as it appears on the document.

A summons or notice could have been published in the newspaper or delivered personally by a deputy sheriff, by certified mail or email, or a deputy sheriff leaving a copy attached to the front door of someone's home or place of business.

The precise date is critically important. Just one day can make a difference whether you get to contest the matter or the court enters a ruling by default.

If you received a paper that is a copy of an order or a notice that says something like "notice of hearing," it probably gives the date, time, and location of the hearing.

It is difficult for a lawyer to prepare for hearing on short notice, so please provide the date shown in the notice.

Please enter 2 digits for the hour and 2 digits for the minutes of the hearing time.

If you can scan or photograph the summons or notice with your smart phone, we would like to receive a copy of the document so we can examine it.

Please follow the usual browsing and uploading prompts to upload the file.

It's not a random question. Some people prefer to exchange emails or other digital messages. We are giving you both options.

We will try to answer your question, but some questions are hard to answer without giving additional explanations. If you want to know the cost of our estate planning services, please note that our consultation fee is $250 if we have not prepared an estate plan for you previously. We will discuss your objectives and concerns in an initial phone or video conference and recommend an estate plan proposal with a fixed attorney fee quote at the end of the initial conference. If you engage us to provide estate planning services, we will waive the consultation fee. NOTE: If the matter concerns one of our current or past clients, the Rules of Professional Conduct may prohibit us from discussing the matter with you. We will try to preserve your privacy about this inquiry to the extent permitted under the Rules of Professional Conduct. Hawkins Elder Law has not yet accepted responsibility to advise or represent you or a person you are trying to help. The firm will not be responsible for any harm that may result from failure to respond to a summons or notice of a court hearing unless the firm agrees to become involved in the case. Your communication to us in this form does not create an attorney-client relationship. Therefore, the information that you provide may not be protected by the attorney-client privilege of confidentiality. However, we will try to preserve your privacy to the extent permitted under the Rules of Professional Conduct. If we refer you to other legal counsel, your responses to these questions will help us connect you with a reputable lawyer or law firm.

If You believe someone is going to need nursing home care very soon, the person's family may need to start preparing and organizing records and information to apply for financial assistance to pay nursing home expenses.

It is important to know whether all communications have been by phone or you have received something in the mail, or by email or fax.

NOTE: If the matter concerns one of our current or past clients, the Rules of Professional Conduct may prohibit us from discussing the matter with you. We will try to preserve your privacy about this inquiry to the extent permitted under the Rules of Professional Conduct.

NOTE: We don’t need all the details. We just need to understand the kind of debt collection issue you want to discuss. If we refer you to another legal counsel, your responses to these questions will help us connect you with a reputable lawyer or law firm. If all communications by the debt collector have verbal following conversations, you may want to demand a written statement of the debt and proof of your obligation. ADDITIONAL NOTE: If the matter concerns one of our current or past clients, the Rules of Professional Conduct may prohibit us from discussing the matter with you. We will try to preserve your privacy about this inquiry to the extent permitted under the Rules of Professional Conduct. Hawkins Elder Law has not yet accepted responsibility to advise or represent you or a person you are trying to help. The firm will not be responsible for any harm that may result from failure to respond to a summons or notice of a court hearing unless the firm agrees to become involved in the case. Your communication to us in this form does not create an attorney-client relationship. Therefore, the information that you provide may not be protected by the attorney-client privilege of confidentiality. However, we will try to preserve your privacy to the extent permitted under the Rules of Professional Conduct. If we refer you to other legal counsel, your responses to these questions will help us connect you with a reputable lawyer or law firm.

Their various issues we would need would address, depending on your answer to this question. It is not a trick question. We just need to know what you want to do so we can advise how to do it with minimal problems.

Please give the buyer's legal name, including middle initial. The family relationship may not create any issues, but it helps us to know how people are connected to each other.

Someone from Hawkins Elder Law will follow-up with you shortly. Meanwhile, please describe the basic details of the sale, including a description of what you’re selling, the sale price, and any other important terms or details.

Please provide the buyer's legal name, including middle initial. If The buyer is more than one person, such as a husband and wife, please provide each person's name.

If there are multiple buyers other than a married couple, we may request their contact information later. For now, we just need contact information for the main person with whom you dealing in this transaction.

We find that transactions can move faster if we can share documents by email, so please provide the buyer's email address. If the buyer is using an attorney, please Identify the attorney's name when we ask for the transaction details in the next field.

Someone from Hawkins Elder Law will follow-up with you shortly. Meanwhile, please describe the basic details of the sale, including a description of what you’re selling, the sale price, and any other important terms or details. If the buyer is represented by a lawyer, please provide the lawyer's name.

We are excited about your new business. We need answers to the following series of basic questions so we can advise you effectively and help you succeed.

We can move more quickly if we know how to contact all business owners.

Some businesses are subject to state or federal regulation, and all businesses have tax issues. If we know what kind of business you are developing and we can coordinate with your accountant, we may help you get started on the right foot with the government.

Please select the applicable natural resource or transaction type.

Although we have represented clients in many natural resources deals over the past three decades, we may refer you to experienced counsel if we think someone could serve you more effectively. The property location may help us determine which lawyers would be best for your transaction.

We want to know the name of the person, company, or agency with whom you are discussing the proposed transaction. We also want your understanding of the transaction's basic details. Some natural resources transactions, such as leases for coal, solar panel fields, and wind turbine farms, have complex terms that can't be described in this space. We would need to see the documents to get up to speed with you on those transactions. We will give you an upload field in a moment so you can share those documents with us.

You should be able to upload draft of the proposed agreement documents in the upload field below by dragging and dropping or browsing to the documents. We can accept Word and PDF document formats.

NOTE: If one of the other property owners is one of our current or past clients, the Rules of Professional Conduct may prohibit us from discussing the matter with you. We will try to preserve your privacy about this inquiry to the extent permitted under the Rules of Professional Conduct. Hawkins Elder Law has not yet accepted responsibility to advise or represent you or a person you are trying to help. The firm will not be responsible for any harm that may result from failure to respond to a summons or notice of a court hearing unless the firm agrees to become involved in the case. Your communication to us in this form does not create an attorney-client relationship. Therefore, the information that you provide may not be protected by the attorney-client privilege of confidentiality. However, we will try to preserve your privacy to the extent permitted under the Rules of Professional Conduct. If we refer you to other legal counsel, your responses to these questions will help us connect you with a reputable lawyer or law firm.

We generally refer property boundary disputes to experienced counsel that accept boundary dispute engagements. We need to know the county where the property is located so we can find experienced counsel in that area.

Please share any other information that we should know to help us respond to your inquiry effectively. If one of your previous answers describes the matter fully, please say something like "see above." NOTE: Your message does not creates an attorney-client relationship with Hawkins Elder Law, so your message may not be protected by the attorney-client privilege of confidentiality. However, we intend to preserve your privacy as much the Rules of Professional Conduct allow.