Taxes, Trusts, and Estates: Tax planning for businesses, organizations and transactions, and tax and estate planning for individuals, is an important aspect of our full-service representation of clients.
Real Estate: Assisting clients in purchasing and leasing real estate is a significant part of the legal services we provide. We provide title searches, title insurance, and closing services.
Commercial and Corporate: We represent clients in all manner of business transactions. The types of transactions in which we assist clients include business organizations and business acquisitions and sales, including an analysis of the tax and legal implications of the transactions.
A large Kentucky utility company sought to condemn tracts of land pursuant to the Eminent Domain Act of Kentucky to construct power lines between two of their power production facilities. After landowners in the area raised numerous objections the Public Service Commission (PSC) mandated that a public hearing be held....
A customer purchased a used SUV from a dealership and signed a disclaimer which stated that the vehicle was being sold in “as is” condition. The customer seemed satisfied with the SUV and did not make any attempt to contact previous owners or have it independently inspected. Not long after...
The Fayette County Housing Authority sought to condemn a privately-owned apartment complex under the Kentucky Eminent Domain Act to build a low-income housing building for the elderly. MGM successfully defended the suit in circuit court, defeating the government’s effort. The Housing Authority appealed. The Court of Appeals affirmed the trial...
After an estate dispute arose, one of the decedent’s natural daughters who was born out of wedlock sought to have her father’s paternity established. The decedent’s widow (the second wife) and her children denied the daughter’s claim and rights to the estate. The Court held the daughter was in fact...
Huntington National Bank filed a foreclosure action against an automobile dealership after it defaulted on its mortgage payments. The bank sought to recover against the guarantor of a promissory note that was executed in their favor. The guarantor, an out-of-state businessman who owned an interest in the dealership, sought the...
Representatives of a local neighborhood association and the Huntertown Road Alliance (HRA) opposed a plan that had been submitted to the Woodford County Zoning Administrator to build a car dealership. The zoning in the area where the dealership was to be built had remained unchanged for more than twenty-five years...
A couple living in the Andover Hills Subdivision submitted an application to the neighborhood association and the developer for a fence they wanted to build on their lot. All of the lots are subject to deed restrictions and covenants, and all proposed fences must first be approved the developer. The...
In a completely separate suit, MGM represented a plaintiff who was awarded a judgment and order of sale of the defendant’s property to satisfy a judgment for money. By mistake, the court’s judgment had a numeral of the property address listed incorrectly which resulted in the address of the neighboring...
Ford Motor Company sponsored a program where certain Ford models were eligible to be repainted free of charge. The owner of a Ford truck decided to participate in the program and delivered his truck to a prominent Lexington Ford dealership to be repainted. When the truck was returned the owner...
The court held that sellers of horses have a duty to inspect and find defects in horses they are selling. This case led to the creation of repositories at public auctions in Kentucky. Read more ›
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