Areas of practice
Real Estate Closing Transactions
West Virginia has unique real estate laws and practices that can be challenging to navigate. Our team knows the ins and outs of the local market, ensuring your Real Estate transaction is smooth and stress-free. When you’re ready to close on your home, call your local, trusted team at Joel Baker Law! We are here to help you navigate your real estate transaction with confidence.
Lenders and Realtors: Streamline your West Virginia real estate transactions with Joel Baker Law. We handle document preparation, settlement scheduling, and post-closing tasks, allowing you to focus on your core business.
Close with confidence at Joel Baker Law.
Adoptions
Joel Baker Law has extensive experience representing Adopting Parents, Birth Parents, Agencies, and Children (upon appointment by a court) in a broad range of adoption matters. This experience includes foster care adoptions, private adoptions, agency adoptions, stepparent adoptions and also legal guardianships. Many of these cases contained complex legal issues, such as interstate placement, adoption subsidies, contesting and non-participating parents, child protective services, and special needs children.
We also understand that adopting can be a lengthy and frustrating process for adoptive parents, and we take pride in moving these cases quickly through the court system. Joel Baker Law has been fortunate enough to handle the adoption of hundreds of children throughout the state.
Wills and Estates
Planning for the future is one of the most important steps you can take to protect your loved ones and ensure your assets are distributed according to your wishes. At Joel Baker Law, our experienced team is dedicated to providing comprehensive legal assistance in all matters related to wills and estates.
Our Services Include: Wills Drafting. Estate Planning, Probate and Estate Administration, and Estate Litigation
Whether you need assistance with drafting a will, creating an estate plan, navigating the probate process, or resolving estate disputes. Joel Baker Law, is here to help.
Personal Injury
Personal injury cases can arise from various incidents, including car accidents, slip and fall accidents, medical malpractice, defective products, workplace accidents.
Joel Baker Law uses a practical, professional approach to ensure that our clients obtain full and fair recovery for their injuries, including damages for their past and future medical bills, lost income, emotional distress, and pain and suffering. Through extensive civil litigation experience, our knowledge about insurance company tactics and our skills at settlement negotiations, we can obtain the best possible recovery for our clients. During his career, Joel has obtained single-case settlements of over one million dollars for multiple clients in civil litigation matters.
