Complex Litigation

Hackensack Shareholder Dispute Lawyers

New Jersey Shareholder Litigation Lawyers

Many businesses large and small, despite their commercial success, encounter conflicts and litigation. Sometimes partners, shareholders or members decide they want to move in a different direction, personal motivations change or an owner wants a larger controlling share. Whatever the situation may be, when you are involved in shareholder dispute litigation, you need an attorney who understands your business and will look after your best interests.

Our attorneys have more 30 years of experience helping businesses form and taking them apart as the situation demands.

Experience Counts

Shareholder dispute litigation is another area in which experience really counts. In New Jersey, shareholder dispute litigation is usually handled in the Chancery Division of Superior Court. In litigation we represent our client aggresivley through the time of trial if necessary and we make sure that the business is protected in the meantime.

Service companies, manufacturers, and other companies and partnerships may require legal action to determine how to separate assets after a split. Covenants not to compete and trade secrets further complicate break-ups. Actions in this area are highly complex and intensely document driven.

At Greenberg & Lanz, our attorneys competently and thoroughly handle claims involving:

• Breach of fiduciary duty
• Minority shareholder and partnership rights
• Conflicts of interest and self-dealing
• Excessive management compensation
• Unfair buyout agreements
• Failure to pay dividends or distributions
• Shareholder or partnership appraisal rights

In addition, Chancery Division has appointed Mr. Greenberg as special fiscal agent in business ownership litigation.

Hackensack Shareholder Dispute Attorneys

By working with our clients to understand their business, goals and problems, we can tailor solutions that work best for your company. To discover how we can help you, speak with our Hackensack business law, litigation, life planning, estate planning, probate and estate administration lawyers. Call 201-487-7755 or contact us online to schedule your free initial consultation.

Probate/Family Dispute Litigation

Unfortunately, it is often the case that pre- or post- death serious disagreements arise within a family over Mom and/or Dad, their assets, with whom they will live, their care and/or the facility, if any, in which they will reside. Repeatedly we urge that planning is the best way to avoid these issues.

When the individuals are willing to engage in a comprehensive strategic planning process most, if not all, issues can be eliminated, or at least mitigated. When planning fails, litigation is at times unavoidable. The actions of the family toward Mom and/or Dad are often abusive in terms of the family trying to impose the solution that is best for them, but not for Mom or Dad.

We often receive referrals from doctors, social workers and other health care professionals where this type of abusive situation is already in progress. More than one doctor has told us that a patient is being referred to us for the reason that the doctor “knows that we will protect the person.”

These family disputes can involve Mom or Dad’s assets, who will hold the power of attorney and/or be the health care representative, will Mom or Dad live with this child or that one, what type of care givers will be provided. Often a facility is chosen based on the least expensive or the closest geographically rather than what is best for Mom or Dad. In some situations, no care is being provided.

Undue Influence and Other Complications

There are often issues of undue influence and questions as to whether gifts or loans were intended. If a Guardianship is involved, there is at times a dispute as to which family member should be appointed Guardian.

At other times, one or more family members have restricted access by their siblings to a parent. Often a Will contest is involved.

Greenberg & Lanz is experienced in litigating all of these issues.

Contact Us Today

To discover how we can help you, speak with our Hackensack business law, litigation, life planning, estate planning, probate and estate administration lawyers. Call 201-487-7755 or contact us online to schedule your free initial consultation.

Hackensack Probate and Estate Litigation Lawyers

New Jersey Will Contest Lawyers

When a challenge to a will is made, litigation is sometimes unavoidable. The attorneys of Greenberg & Lanz can be there to protect the decedent’s wishes and the rights of the heirs.

There are many reasons that family members and others challenge a will. We help clients who are involved in family disputes concerning:

• Inheritance dispute between family members
• Who will hold power of attorney or be named health care representative
• Last minute changes to a will
• Changes to a will when a person is very ill or while living in a health care facility

Estate Litigation: Protecting the Vulnerable

At Greenberg & Lanz, we repeatedly urge that planning is the best way to avoid family dispute issues. When the individuals are willing to engage in a comprehensive, strategic estate planning process, most, if not all, issues can be eliminated. We understand that this is not always possible. Often family members are trying to impose the solution that is best for them, not for the individual. We often receive referrals from doctors, social workers and other health care professionals who believe their patient needs to be protected from abusive family members regarding their assets and future care decisions.

Representative Examples of Our Work

• One set of children held their parent against her will and refused to allow her to return to her home with another sibling. They were attempting to have the parent change her estate documents in their favor. Ultimately, this matter had to be litigated.
• An elderly woman was suffering from dementia. One child insisted that the parent continue to live in her own home attended by an untrained attendant. On behalf of the other child, we were successful in forcing the replacement of the unqualified attendant with licensed and trained care givers.
• Nieces and nephews of an older woman suffering from mild dementia removed her from her residence and then took her out of this country, all of this being against her will and part of an effort to separate the woman from her longtime companion whom the nieces and nephews disliked. Litigation we initiated on behalf of the companion resulted in having the woman returned to the U.S. and her relationship with her companion restored.

In many instances, litigated and not, we have dealt with questions of undue influence and the validity, or lack thereof, of wills, gifts and other transfers.

Protect Yourself and Your Family

If you are involved in a will contest or estate litigation, you need an experienced legal team that will keep your best interests in mind and protect your wishes. To discover how we can help you, speak with our Hackensack business law, litigation, life planning, estate planning, probate and estate administration lawyers. Call 201-487-7755 or contact us online for your convenience.

Hackensack Guardianship Litigation Lawyers

New Jersey Guardian Dispute Lawyers

From time to time, all of us are approached by or for someone who, due to illness, disability or the infirmities of old age, are no longer able to keep up or to handle their affairs. They may be doing poorly in their home. Their family members may be at a loss, frustrated and not know where to turn given the myriad of problems and issues confronting them. Sometimes there are family disputes and even litigation in the family that requires an individual to be protected.

This is a moment in a family’s life when an experienced guardian attorney can be the most help. At Greenberg & Lanz, you can be assured that we are honest, sympathetic, caring and effective when it comes to guardianship litigation. Call 201-487-7755 or contact us online to schedule a free initial consultation today.

Hackensack Guardianship Litigation Attorneys

Any time that a guardianship action is initiated, some type of controversy is likely to exist related to whether or not the incapacitated person is sufficiently unable to care for themselves that they need a guardian. Additionally, there could be allegations of abuse or who should be the guardian to the exclusion of someone else. In either of these cases, litigation generally arises when the family does not agree as to the best course of action for the incapacitated person.

The attorneys at Greenberg & Lanz often prepare and file complaints in Court on behalf of a family member seeking declarations of mental incapacity and appointment of guardians. While these applications are typically uncontested as to the issue of mental incapacity, when they are contested, we are in a position to litigate that issue to its conclusion.

Experience That Counts

Attorney Steven Morey Greenberg has more than 30 years experience in obtaining positive results in this area. He has also been appointed by the Superior Court, Chancery Division in New Jersey to various positions including guardian or attorney for frail or infirm elderly persons and adults with various disabilities.

The experience, combined with the skills, of all the attorneys at Greenberg & Lanz is invaluable when you or a family member is involved in guardianship or probate litigation. Clients are best-served by working with an attorney who has strong competence in these areas.

Free Initial Consultation

If you know of anyone who seems to be having difficulty, we would be available to meet with them in our office or at their home to discuss their needs and options. To discover how we can help you, speak with our Hackensack business law, litigation, life planning, estate planning, probate and estate administration lawyers. Call us at 201-487-7755 or contact us online today.

Hackensack Commercial Litigation Lawyers

New Jersey Breach of Contract Lawyers

Some business disputes are relatively straightforward and require one or two negotiation sessions to reach an acceptable compromise, other cases, however, can evolve into litigation involving multiple parties and voluminous paper records. At Greenberg & Lanz, our attorneys are equipped to represent commercial plaintiffs or defendants in litigation arising from sophisticated and multi-tiered business transactions.

Representative Past Cases

To illustrate the extent of our firm’s experience with complex commercial litigation, the following are a few examples of litigation our successful Hackensack commercial litigation attorneys have been involved in:

• We represented a client who developed a major software advance with broad potential application. His marketing efforts had been stymied by an erroneous negative review of his product which prevented it from being marketed. We litigated this matter on his behalf and obtained a settlement which resolved the negative review and enabled him to resume his marketing efforts.
• We represented a foreign client simultaneously in New Jersey state and federal courts in connection with a contract dispute concerning cutting edge medical devices, which was resolved favorably for our client.
• We have represented banks in enforcing complicated secured transactions involving substantial sums.
• We represented a client in the music business against claims by an adversary to rights in the client’s business and/or songs.

In all of these cases and others, we immerse ourselves in the technical aspects of the business and product involved, find and work with nationally recognized experts in order to devise the best possible solutions for our clients. We make sure we understand every aspect of your business, not just the immediate issue, in order to tailor solutions to your unique situation.

Full Service Representation

For comprehensive commercial litigation representation that can protect your business now and into the future, call Greenberg & Lanz today. To discover how we can help you, speak with our Hackensack business law, litigation, life planning, estate planning, probate and estate administration lawyers. Call us at 201-487-7755 or contact us online to discover how our experience can help you.

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