Real Estate

Attorney for Buying or Selling Real Property

Serving all of Connecticut, New York State & New York City

Purchase, Sale or Refinance Closings

Glouzgal Law PLLC helps clients all across Connecticut and New York with real estate related legal services. We help our clients accomplish their goals while limiting their liability and meeting their financial needs. Whether buying, selling, or refinancing your home, a business location, or an investment property or fighting a foreclosure by your lender or a tax authority, you will need the help of a Danbury real estate lawyer.

We represent both buyers and sellers in real estate closing transactions. While the exact steps are different in a sale or purchase of real estate, the services we provide are similar: We assist in negotiating and drafting the sales contract, compile information on mortgages and liens, handle the flow of money through escrow and the transfer of title via deed; all the while making sure our clients interests are protected from legal and financial liability.

If you own or are looking to buy property for a specific use, we can help you figure out if your use is allowed by local zoning regulations. We can also assist in filing special using permits with zoning, including town hall filings and zoning board meetings.

If you are looking to rent out real estate property but need a custom lease drafted, we can help you at a very reasonable cost. After a meeting with the client to discuss needs and goals of the rental arrangement we draft a custom lease that addresses those needs and goals. If things turn sour with your tenant, we help Landlords enforce their property rights through the eviction process.

Being foreclosed on by your bank, mortgage company, or a tax authority? There are a few options that you can choose from to meet your obligations. Being foreclosed on is not enjoyable, but our experienced foreclosure defense attorneys can help you limit the financial impact the foreclosure has on your life.

Make sure all your bases are covered by hiring a real estate attorney at Glouzgal Law PLLC to handle your real estate related legal matters. Contact us today by phone at 203-885-0500.

Estate Planning & Probate Settlement

Wills, Trusts & Probate Lawyer

Serving all of Connecticut, New York State & New York City

Custom Estate Plans

Your Estate Plan is a very personal matter. It is an opportunity to plan your legacy: to speak for yourself, one last time, after your death. Who will handle the financial affairs when you pass away? Who will make sure your family and close friends are provided for? Who will take care of your children? What will happen to your remains? Who will get your pets? Or perhaps your firearms? These are all of the questions that you can answer in your estate documents and Last Will and Testament, or provide for in your Trust Document.

Estate Plans can be complicated or simple. Like the clients we serve, no two estate plans are alike.

Estate plans vary from simple powers of attorney and directives allowing certain individuals to carry on your affairs in case of death or incapacity, to relatively basic wills that provide for last wishes and distribute remaining assets, to complex trust agreements that can allow you to do just about anything with your money.

For individuals and families with relatively few assets and relatively low risk of sudden life changing circumstances, a Will based plan may suffice. Will based plans also include any “ancillary” documents such as a health care directive (“living will”), financial power of attorney, medical power of attorney, HIPAA authorizations, and child protection plan. Will Based plans are:

If you are the type of person that does not want the details of your estate to become a public record, you might consider the option of setting up a trust to transfer your property upon death (or sooner). Unlike a will, a trust is a private document that will not be filed with the probate court. Depending on the complexity of your situation, the value of your estate, and what you are looking to accomplish, different documents will be needed.

All estate plans include unlimited revisions for 30 days after signing.

Probate Settlement

The services we will perform in connection with Probate Settlement include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Initial advice and assistance to you, as the Executor and/or Trustee, in reviewing and understanding the Will/Trust document and advising on the preliminary steps to fulfill your fiduciary duties;  continued education throughout the process as to how to meet your obligations as fiduciary.
• Open a Probate if necessary.  File the original Will with the probate court.
• Assist in filing death claims, if desired.
• Review the assets; Assist Financial Advisor in allocation of funds, if necessary.
• Prepare the Inventory for filing and/or internal purposes; Assist in Monitoring Investments; Prepare and file any necessary Administrative and/or Final Accountings.
• Obtain a Tax ID number for the Estate and/or Administrative Trust, and all subsequent Trusts as they are established.
• Coordinate with your tax preparer to ensure the proper tax returns are filed, and that the values most advantageous to the Estate are utilized.
• Oversee the opening of an Estate and/or Trust checking account, if needed.  Research, discuss and advise on the disposition of an existing checking account.
• Give notice to creditors, if any.  Assist in the examination of claims, paying those that are uncontested and denying those that are contested.
• Such other reasonably necessary legal work as is required depending on the unique nature of each Estate and/or Trust.

Civil Litigation Defense

Are you being sued?

Do you need a civil litigation defense lawyer?

If you have been served with a Summons and Complaint, you are being sued. The types of cases and circumstances that lead to somebody being sued can range greatly. Some examples of civil litigations for which Glouzgal Law PLLC can act as defense counsel include, but are not limited to:

• Contract Disputes
• Business Partner Disputes
• Land Disputes
• Injury/Civil Battery

Why hire Glouzgal Law PLLC to be your defense lawyers?

We take a client oriented approach to all of our legal representation; where our actions are always guided by client goals. Sometimes the client’s goal is to settle; other times the client wants to fight tooth and nail on principle. There may be pro’s and con’s to either approach based on any given situation. We pride ourselves on counseling our clients through those decisions in an honest and straightforward way while always keeping the emphasis on the client’s goals and addressing their needs.

Business Succession

Attorneys for Buying or Selling a Business

Buy, Sell or Transfer Business Interest

Serving all of Connecticut, New York State & New York City

Businesses are bought and sold for many reasons. Merger, retirement, relocation, children, health, new ideas….the reasons are as diverse as the types of businesses and their owners.

Whether you are buying or selling a business one thing is universal: you want to limit your liability. If you are buying the business you want to make sure you are not on the hook for those things that came before you. If you are selling the business, you want to make sure you are not on the hook for things that happen after you are gone.

In either case, you will want the guidance and assistance of an experienced business attorney to help you get through the business succession process.

Here are just some of the tasks we perform for our business succession clients:

Negotiate and Draft Asset Purchase Agreement and Ancillary Agreements

Perform Due Diligence on Both Business Entities

Issue Attorney Opinion Letters

Manage Purchase Funds Through Escrow

Transfer Physical Assets

Transfer Intellectual property

Draft and Record State Documents

Fix Problems That Come Up