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to the Chinn & Associates, PLLC Newsletter!
As a
service to our clients, we at Chinn & Associates and Divorce
Magazine are pleased to provide you with this monthly e-newsletter and
hope that the information and articles contained within are helpful,
supportive, and entertaining. Chinn & Associates employs a unique team
approach where the entire staff serves a clients’ needs. When this team
approach is combined with our unique staffing and our commitment to
service, we deliver complete service to our clients. For more information,
please visit our web site at: www.chinnandassociates.com.
FIRM NEWS
April brings Spring, and, most importantly, Easter! Our office will be closed on Good Friday in observance the Holy Day.
Mary Ann has a birthday April 9, 2010!!
A note about Matthew: Matthew wants to eventually have his own law firm. We talked about it and decided that we wanted to continue with Matthew as an associate here, but give him the opportunity to start his own business “under our umbrella.” So, if you know of anyone that needs help with a legal problem other than family law, send it to Matthew at The Thompson Law Firm.
Unique Post Divorce Follow Up
Our firm is blessed to have a sophisticated “case management” software system that allows us to do many things to serve our clients. It also allow us to follow an elaborate post closing follow up with the client. Our case management software allows us to calendar important dates in the future with the preprogrammed “touch of a button.” Some examples of dates we calendar are:
- thirty day check–we call clients 30 days after their divorce to see how they are doing.
- yearly anniversary check--The anniversary check is designed to keep the client aware of their rights and to ensure that problems can be fixed or contempts filed or modifications obtained where necessary.
- lump sum alimony payments
- termination of rehabilitative alimony
- college approaching
- birthdays of client and children (we send cards)
- child reaching age of majority (21 in some states, 18 or 19 in others)
- deadlines for sale of property
- 6 month fraud deadline to challenge the final order--an order cannot generally be challenged after six months have passed. For example, suppose a client learns a couple of months after the entry of the final order, that their former spouse had won the lottery and concealed that from them. If this is to be brought before the court, it generally must be raised within 6 months. So, we send a letter to each client five months after their divorce, warning them of this deadline.
Our “post divorce follow up” is performed at no additional charge to the value priced fixed fee we charged for the initial work.
As always, we are available to our clients during all waking hours through email, text and phone. Lawyers and key team members are all equipped with iPhones which allow us to call and text with our clients at all hours. We are also able to view our office emails and reply through the iPhones.
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