Located in Historic Garfield Square, Pottsville, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania
Pavlovitz and Fackenthal, LLC is a husband and wife law firm. We want to bring compassion and responsiveness to a profession that can appear confusing and daunting to clients. With nearly fifty years of legal experience, we strive to combine professionalism with client oriented results at reasonable costs.
Pavlovitz and Fackenthal, LLC practices in the areas of residential and commercial real estate transactions (including landlord tenant disputes), family law (including divorce, property settlement agreements, and child custody), wills and trusts (including probate and estate administration, powers of attorney, living wills and health care powers of attorney), Bankruptcy, Social Security disability, and Pennsylvania business organizations.
On April 20, 2005, President Bush signed into law the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act ("BAPCPA"). As part of that law and as attorneys who represent bankruptcy assistance to debtors (whose non-exempt assets are less than $164,250.00), we must provide notice that BAPCPA categoizes our firm as a debt relief agency.
We practice in numerous counties in Eastern Pennsylvania, including Schuylkill, Berks, Northampton, Pike, Monroe, Bucks, and Montgomery.
If you are not familiar with our firm and your first contact with us is online, we would like to hear from you. If you have questions, we will be more than happy to help. We offer extended office hours, making appointments after the close of business if necessary. We will also make arrangements to visit clients in their home, in a nursing facility, or in a hospital.
Based on our clients' needs, we will always try to improve constantly the content and to supplement the information contained in our web site. Our TIPS FOR THE TIME BEING are......
It is a new decade and a new economic environment. So, it is time to bring your will to us to review, to get a will if you do not have one, to review or to write a living will (advanced health care directive), and to review all powers of attorney that you have or may need.
Recently we have had two clients come to us with similar problems. A home was passed from generation to generation simply by virtue of the death of one party and the occupancy of that same property by an heir. No deeds were ever filed and no inheritance taxes ever paid on the transfer. This process went on for at least three generations. When one of the heirs finally marketed the property to the public, good title to the property could not be obtained without court intervention to quiet the title. In such a challenging real estate market when buyers are hard to find, one client lost the buyer because of the time it would take to obtain good title to the home. So, if your home has been in the family for generations and you have any question at all whether you own your home, call us and we will help.
Did you know that the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania provides a means for rehabilitating abandoned and blighted properties? If there is such a property within 500 feet of your residence or business, you can file all of the necessary paperwork for a conservator to take possession of that property and undertake the rehabilitation of it. If you have any questions about this law (the Abandoned and Blighted Property Conservatorship Act of Pennsylvania), call us for an appointment.
