Our Practice Areas
Businesses and Nonprofits
Gallagher, Villeneuve and DeGeer's lawyers take pride in growing the mid-coast economy through representation of new and established businesses and nonprofits. We guide you in the legal formation of your business or nonprofit, its major sales and purchases, tax status, and ownership transitions or disputes. We advise you in how to choose, implement and maintain a legal structure that best fits your needs and aspirations. We have three Business Law attorneys, all of whom represent LLC’s, corporations, partnerships, and nonprofit organizations. Marcia DeGeer and Jennifer Atkinson accept new clients in this practice area, while Timothy Kimpton continues to provide services to his established business clients only.
Elder Law
The Elder Law attorneys at Gallagher, Villeneuve and DeGeer work to meet the needs of their clients who are age fifty or older. We work together to create and execute a legal plan that protects them in their later years, to decide who will make decisions about their life, home, finances, health and healthcare if there comes a time when they are no longer able to do so. We help them create and safeguard the documents that facilitate and protect these decisions. We also represent clients with Petitions for Guardianship and Conservatorship, when they are needed. Marica DeGeer is our primary Elder Law attorney, while Timothy Kimpton offers these services to his established clients.
Estate and Trust Planning
Gallagher, Villeneuve and DeGeer's attorneys work closely with you to ensure that your property and assets are managed and distributed according to your wishes. We draft, review and modify the kind of Will or Trust and accompanying documents that best fit your needs and intentions. Our attorneys regularly work with client accountants to evaluate each unique situation, minimize tax burdens, and find the best approach to managing the transfer of assets now and in the future. Two of our firm’s attorneys are accepting new clients in this practice area, Marcia DeGeer and Jennifer Atkinson. Timothy Kimpton continues to provide services only to his established Estate Planning clients.
Family Law
Gallagher, Villeneuve and DeGeer's Family Law group helps you to put your family first when representing you in all aspects of family law including divorce, post-divorce issues, parental rights and responsibilities, adoption, guardianship, and prenuptial agreements. We are there to support you as you prepare your case, undergo mediation or contested proceedings, and, if necessary, appeal your case to Maine's Law Court. Led by Timothy Kimpton, whose practice focuses primarily in this area, our family law practitioners also include Marcia DeGeer, who provides services to established clients, and Jennifer Atkinson.
Immigration
Jennifer Atkinson helps both foreign nationals and U.S. sponsors to navigate the complex administrative processes involved in obtaining temporary residence (visitor or non-immigrant) or permanent residence (green card) as well as humanitarian status in the U.S. She works with individuals, couples and families on their unique immigration issues. She also guides individuals in securing and confirming their U.S citizenship. She advises and represents clients in petitions and applications before USCIS and the U.S Dept of State. For more information about GVD Law’s Immigration services please visit our website devoted to Immigration Law.
Mediation
Marcia DeGeer and Timothy Kimpton are highly-trained and experienced Mediators who focuses their growing practices primarily in the pre-trial resolution of family law cases and other matters as requested by Maine courts, litigants, and/or trial attorneys.
Probate (Estates)
The attorneys at Gallagher, Villeneuve and DeGeer regularly assist families and friends in the administration of the estate of someone who has passed. We guide you through the entire probate process, ensuring you take the right steps along the way, whether the estate is large or small. We represent you in hearings, through transactions of property, and settling of debts and bequests, both contested and uncontested matters. Marcia DeGeer and Jennifer Atkinson accept new Probate clients, while Timothy Kimpton provides Probate services only to his established clients.