Legal Services for Indiana Families

Estate Planning & Probate • Business Succession Planning •              Residential Real Estate • Personal Injury

I’m Valparaiso lawyer Michael B. Miller and I am pleased to be able to offer a wide range of legal services to you and your family. I serve clients throughout Valparaiso, Indiana, and surrounding communities such as Portage, Chesterton, Merrillville, Crown Point, Westville, Hebron, and DeMotte. Contact my law office to schedule an appointment.

I provide the following legal services to individual and family clients:

Estate Planning: Every family has different needs and goals. As your Valparaiso estate planning attorney, I focus on learning about you, your family, the assets you need to protect, and the goals you want to achieve with your estate plan. With that information, I can craft a plan that meets your goals without being too cumbersome to manage.

Many of my clients request a plan that will avoid probate. I will explain in plain terms the pros and cons of using a will or living trust. Many of my clients require tax planning assistance to avoid or reduce federal estate taxes and Indiana inheritance taxes. I also prepare premarital (prenuptial) agreements, and I work with many couples in second marriage situations to work through the special inheritance planning concerns in a mixed family.

If you are interested in beginning the process of creating a legal will or trust, contact my office to speak with me, a Valparaiso estate planning lawyer with over a decade of experience helping people care for their families now and into the future.

Business Succession Planning: In my Indiana business law practice, I work with many families who own closely-held family businesses. Transferring control of a business to the next generation while minimizing operational disruption or the loss of assets to taxation brings a host of new considerations to estate planning. With more than 20 years of business experience, including 11 in my own family's business, I am well prepared to help you understand all the options to plan for transferring your business interests and assets.

Probate and Litigation: I represent executors, administrators, and trustees in estate administration or to help settle estates and trusts in Porter County, LaPorte County, Lake County, and Jasper County, Indiana. I also represent individual beneficiaries, and I provide courtroom representation in will contests, trust contests, guardianship requests or disputes, and other legal disputes regarding settlement of an estate.

Residential Real Estate:

• About to close on a new home in the Valparaiso area? I provide legal services to ensure the smooth purchase or sale of a home, including preparation of the purchase agreement, monitoring the status through the inspection and loan approval stages, ordering title work and obtaining mortgage payoff information, preparing the deed, reviewing the settlement statement, and attending the closing. 
• Problems with a neighbor encroaching on your property? I can help. I work with homeowners to resolve legal issues around boundaries and land use and represent homeowners in the courtroom to litigate real estate disputes. 
• Has your property been condemned or is the government proposing to take your property through eminent domain? Work with me, an Indiana real estate attorney, to help ensure you receive full value for your property and any additional money you are due under the law.

Personal Injury: Clients who have been satisfied by my service in other legal areas often ask me to negotiate with an insurance company when they or a family member has been injured in an accident. I have many years’ experience in settling and litigating personal injury cases.  If you or a family member has been injured in an accident, my litigation and negotiation experience can help you get just financial compensation, whether it is an injury from a car wreck, a motorcycle crash, a slip-and-fall accident, a truck wreck, or an ATV or boating accident. I also handle legal malpractice cases.

Contact my Valparaiso law office today to schedule a consultation.

Michael B. Miller, P.C.

A Professional Corporation. Serving Real Estate, Business, and Estate Clients Since 1994.

701 East Lincolnway
Valparaiso, IN 46383
Telephone (219) 465-1197 • Fax (219) 531-0683
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The Valparaiso law firm of Michael B. Miller, P.C., serves the legal needs of businesses and individuals in Valparaiso, Indiana, in Porter County, Lake County, LaPorte County, and Jasper County and in communities such as Portage, Chesterton, Merrillville, Crown Point, Westville, Hebron, and DeMotte.