Practice Areas

Our region is dominated by agriculture. As a result, our attorneys have represented individual farmers, ranchers, processors, and distributors. We advise and represent our clients on a variety of agricultural issues and litigation including:

• Farm Organization Structures
• Contracts for purchase or sale of farm products or commodities
• Farm Leasing and/or Sale
• Crop Damage
• Hunting Rights/Contracts
• Surface use and water rights

The attorneys of LaFONT, FORMBY, & HAMILTON, L.L.P. are trained in many areas of Business Law. Our firm can help you in a variety of situations including, but not limited to the following.

• Business Structures
• Partnerships
• Limited Liability Company
• Subchapter S Corporation
• General C Corporation
• Closed Corporation
• Nonprofit Corporation
• Corporate Law
• Shareholder Lawsuits
• Business Transaction Suits
• Fiduciary Lawsuits
• Contracts
• Contract Lawsuits
  
  

The attorneys of LaFONT, FORMBY, & HAMILTON, L.L.P. have experience in representing the accused in all levels of alleged crimes. Our attorneys include a former state prosecutor, and we have represented the accused in cases that range from accusations of capital murder to drug possession.

Our attorneys represent clients in a variety of family law matters including:

• Adoption: Adoption Basics; Equitable Adoption; Agency Adoption; Private Adoption; Open Adoption; Second Parent Adoption; Relative Adoptions.
• Child Custody: Guardianship; Legal Custody; Physical Custody; Visitation Rights; Emancipated Minors
• Child Support
• Paternity
• Divorce Law: Annulments; Alimony; Trial Separation; Legal Separation; Marital Separation Agreement; Community Property & Equitable Distribution States; Fault vs. No Fault Divorce; Uncontested Divorce; Out of State Divorce; Divorce Mediation.
• Marriage Law: Prenuptial Agreements; Legal Rights of Marriage; Marriage Requirements.

Our attorneys routinely represent clients who have been substantially injured in our region and throughout the state. Our represented clients include the following:

• Personal Injury: Burn Injuries; Industrial Accidents; Wrongful Death; Traffic Accidents
• Product Liability: Strict Liability and Negligence; Failure to Warn; Products Liability

LaFONT, FORMBY, & HAMILTON represent landowners. Our attorneys own farms and ranches and other commercial and residential properties in the region. Our attorneys understand real estate/condemnation from the landowners' perspective. We have extensive experience in this area of law including:

• Condemnation: Pipelines; Transmission lines; Municipalities
• Sale/Leasing of Real Estate: Agricultural; Commercial; Residential
• Real Estate Litigation
• Boundary Disputes
• Ownership Issues/Adverse Possession
• Hunting Rights
• Oil and Gas/Wind Rights