Alabama
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Christopher R. Owens · Probate and Estate Planning Attorney
2101 1st Avenue North, Suite 320, Birmingham, AL 35203
Probate and estate planning attorney. He handles wills, trusts, powers of attorney, living wills and advance directives, property deeds, guardianships and conservatorships, and the probate of estates, including small estates and estates without a will. He meets clients at the firm's Birmingham and Chelsea offices.
Rocco Calamusa Jr. · Member
The Kress Building, 301 19th Street North, Birmingham, AL 35203
Member of a Birmingham firm of plaintiffs' attorneys. His practice covers discrimination and retaliation, harassment, wage and hour claims, whistleblower and qui tam cases, civil rights, and class and collective actions.
Birmingham is in Jefferson County. The Probate Court's Birmingham Division is at 716 North Richard Arrington Jr. Boulevard, and the county also has a Bessemer Division at 1801 3rd Avenue North in Bessemer. The EEOC's Birmingham District Office is at Ridge Park Place, 1130 22nd Street South.
Christopher R. Owens at The Harris Firm LLC focuses on estate planning and probate work, and the firm also covers family. Rocco Calamusa Jr. at Wiggins Childs Pantazis Fisher Goldfarb LLC focuses on employment work, and the firm also covers personal injury.
Circuit courts hear divorce and other domestic relations cases and the larger civil cases; district courts hear smaller civil cases and small claims; and each county's probate court handles wills, estates, guardianships and name changes. Immigration is governed by federal law. Lawyers are licensed through the Alabama State Bar, which also deals with complaints about them.
Divorce and the larger civil cases go to the Circuit Court of Jefferson County, and smaller civil cases to the District Court — find both on the Alabama Judicial System's map of judicial circuits.
For Birmingham, divorce and other domestic relations cases are heard by the Circuit Court of Jefferson County.
Wills and estates are handled by the Probate Court of Jefferson County; its Birmingham Division is at 716 North Richard Arrington Jr. Blvd., Birmingham, and there is also a Bessemer Division at 1801 3rd Avenue North, Bessemer.
Most discrimination complaints start with a charge to the EEOC (Birmingham District Office), normally within 180 days; complaints about wages under federal law can go to the U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division.
Legal Services Alabama gives free civil legal help to people who qualify on income — call (866) 456-4995, or (888) 835-3505 in Spanish. The Alabama State Bar runs a Volunteer Lawyers Program ((888) 857-8571), a Lawyer Referral Service and the Justice4AL website, with court forms and help in other languages. Legal Services Alabama · Volunteer Lawyers Program · Justice4AL
Court details from the Alabama Department of Revenue's county probate office directory and county probate court websites.
Probate Court of Jefferson County, Birmingham Division (Wills, estates, guardianships and name changes). Divorce and the larger civil cases go to the Circuit Court of Jefferson County, and smaller civil cases to the District Court — find both on the Alabama Judicial System's map of judicial circuits.
For Birmingham, divorce and other domestic relations cases are heard by the Circuit Court of Jefferson County.
Wills and estates are handled by the Probate Court of Jefferson County; its Birmingham Division is at 716 North Richard Arrington Jr. Blvd., Birmingham, and there is also a Bessemer Division at 1801 3rd Avenue North, Bessemer.
Most discrimination complaints start with a charge to the EEOC (Birmingham District Office), normally within 180 days; complaints about wages under federal law can go to the U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division.
To practise law in Alabama a lawyer must be licensed through the Alabama State Bar. You can look up any lawyer in the State Bar's public Find a Member search, and the Bar publishes its disciplinary history. Each lawyer on these pages was checked in that search before being listed, but people move firms, so check again before you hire. Complaints about a lawyer go to the State Bar's Office of General Counsel.
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