Silverman Law Office, PLLC excels in providing our clients in Billings, Montana with expert counsel across a wide array of business matters. We also help individuals with their estate planning needs and tax issues. Our goal as attorneys is to protect your interests while preventing unnecessary expenditures and ensuring your compliance with both state and federal laws. We can help you in the following areas:
- Estate planning
- Tax planning
- Oil and natural gas operations
- Professional licensing
- Real estate transactions and development
- Tax controversy
- Regulatory law
Wills, Trusts, and Probate
Our Billings tax lawyers will help you draft an estate plan that will protect your assets, keep your privacy, and ensure that your assets make it to your heirs immediately upon your passing with the help of living trusts. If your property passes through your will, all of this will be managed by a probate judge who will contact your creditors first. It will also be a matter of public record. Our attorneys can help you set up a trust that will disperse your assets directly to your heirs. We can also help with the following:
- Amending and administering existing trusts
- Appointing guardianships for any minors in your care
- Creating trusts for family members with disabilities
- Stress-testing your will for potential challenges in court
- Helping you draft a will that can withstand any challenge
- Litigating probate disputes
- Admitting your will to probate court in Billings
- Filing estate tax returns
- Settling your estate and ensuring your assets make it to your beneficiaries
Our attorneys believe that an estate plan is not something you draft once and then set aside. Estate plans are built over the course of one’s life and therefore need to be constantly amended. The Billings, Montana estate planning attorneys at Silverman Law Office, PLLC can help you manage your estate plan.
Tax and Business Law
Silverman Law Office, PLLC helps both small and large businesses manage their taxes and major transactions. Whether your business is just getting off the ground or you do business all over the country, our attorneys can help. With decades of experience, you likely won’t find a problem that our attorneys can’t handle. Our services include:
- Business litigation and dispute resolution
- Formation, incorporation, and governance
- Corporate compliance and documentation
- Tax compliance and business planning
- Taxable and nontaxable business reorganization
- Long-term business planning and development
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Transaction law and contract review
- Debt collection and creditor’s rights
- Real estate and property acquisition
- Regulatory compliance
Gambling and Liquor Regulation
Montana has strict regulations that govern both the gaming and alcohol industries. Our attorneys have over 35 years of experience helping establishments get licenses and fight violations and revocations of licenses. Our services include the following:
- Assuring that your business is in compliance with state laws regulating alcohol and gaming
- Helping new businesses get a gaming or liquor license
- Transferring the ownership of a business that requires a gaming or liquor license
- Assisting in the reorganization of businesses in accordance with state and federal TTB laws
Our attorneys have worked on the prosecutorial side of the law issuing violations against businesses that were not in compliance with Montana regulations concerning liquor or gaming. We now help businesses fight citations and allegations that they have violated Montana state regulations. We have worked with many kinds of businesses in Billings, including the following:
- Bars
- Casinos
- Liquor stores
- Alcohol distributors
- Gambling route operations
- Gaming machine manufacturers
Oil and Natural Gas
Montana is rich in natural resources and thus has a thriving oil and natural industry. Our attorneys understand the needs of the many companies that team up to provide the resources we need to heat our homes and make our engines run. We are uniquely suited to manage the needs of companies in the oil and natural gas industry. Our services include:
- Creating loyalty trusts and business organizations
- Helping companies with leasing problems
- Ensuring your company is in compliance with state and federal regulations
- Managing your company’s tax issues
Professional Licensing
Silverman Law Office helps manage disputes that arise in both residential and commercial landlord-tenant relationships. We also help developers ensure that they are in compliance with local ordinances and we help with the drafting of buy-sell contracts, construction contracts, and much more. We can also review any contracts to ensure that your interests are met. In addition, our licensing defense attorneys manage tax issues for landlords and help with titles and insurance matters.
Tax Defense
If you’ve been audited by the IRS or charged with tax evasion or tax fraud, a Billings, MT, tax attorney at Silverman Law Office can help. We can help you prepare a criminal defense to IRS charges, negotiate an offer in compromise, or make incremental payments to repay delinquent taxes. The IRS plays rough and they may put liens on your home, your business, or other valuable property. An IRS tax attorney ensures that you protect your rights.
Regulatory Law
Our regulatory compliance attorneys can help your business with both state and federal compliance in a number of areas, including:
- Construction
- Consumer protection
- Sports and gaming
- Energy regulation
- Housing
- Environmental
- Health care, pharmaceuticals, and medical devices
- Transportation
- International trade
- National security
- Telecommunications
- Cybersecurity
- Much more
Contact a Billings, Montana Business Law Attorney Today
Silverman Law Office, PLLC has helped a number of businesses grow, maintain compliance and reduce their tax burden, as well as prepare their taxes. Our attorneys have experience across a wide array of industries and are thus uniquely qualified to help your business whether it is large or small. For more information, contact us today.