DUI Restraining Orders Criminal Law Motor Vehicle Accidents Landlord/Tenant Evictions/Unlawful Detainers Eviction Notices Personal Injuries Family Law Child Support Child Custody Divorce Child Paternity

Our law firm specializes in serious injury cases. Those who have suffered from severe and serious injuries deserve aggressive representation to ensure fair compensation for all of their past and future medical expenses, lost wages, emotional distress, and pain and suffering. If you have been seriously injured, please contact our law office for a free case consultation.
Motor Vehicle Accidents

Motor Vehicle accidents (also referred to as car accidents, auto accidents, or car crashes) can be a traumatizing experience. If you, or a loved one, have been injured in a motor vehicle collision, please contact our law office for a free case consultation.
Other Personal Injuries

If you believe you have been wrongfully hurt or injured, or you have suffered the death of a loved one or family member due to the negligence of a third party, please contact our law office for a free case consultation. Other personal injuries may include medical malpractice cases, nursing home abuse cases, aircraft accident cases, and many more. Please call our law office today to seek professional legal advice.
DUI / DWI & Traffic

Defending people accused of driving under the influence. An experienced trial attorney, Lopez & Lopez  has successfully represented people from the day of their arrest through DUI jury trials. Initially after your DUI arrest, when you see the police report and all the evidence against you, you may think your case is hopeless. Don’t give up! An experienced DUI attorney may find issues to work into a powerful defense, or even discover a fatal flaw in the case that could cause the prosecution to back down or give up.

The state is likely to say all of its evidence is true and incriminating. Lopez & Lopez can use the facts and the law to your advantage to exclude or diminish certain evidence.  With professional defense counsel on your side, you can defend yourself, assert your rights, and be assured of the best possible outcome given the facts and law of your case.
Restraining Orders

Restraining Orders is a form of legal injunction. The term is most commonly used in reference to domestic violence, stalking or sexual assault. Each state has some form of domestic violence restraining order law, and many states also have specific restraining order laws for stalking and sexual assault.
 

Landlord/Tenant

Parties to the leasing of real estate, whose relationship is bound by contract. The landlord, or lessor, is the owner; the tenant, or lessee, supplies payment in order to enjoy possession and use of the property for a specified period. Important forms of tenancy include tenancy for a fixed period, periodic (seasonal) tenancy, tenancy at will, and holdover tenancy (whereby a tenant remains after the contract has ended).

Evictions/Unlawful Detainers
The term unlawful detainer ordinarily refers to the conduct of a tenant who is in possession of an apartment or leased property and refuses to leave the premises upon the expiration or termination of the lease. Typically, the landlord wishes to evict the tenant for not paying the rent or for endangering the safety of the other tenants or the landlord's property.
Eviction Notices

If your landlord wants to terminate your tenancy, he or she typically must give you some kind of written notice. The landlord must wait until the amount of time stated in the notice has passed before being able to get a court to evict you. And if a court case is filed, you are entitled to notice and a hearing if you want to remain a tenant and if you believe you have legal defenses against an eviction. Your landlord may not get around this process by locking you out, or by shutting off your utilities or other essential services.
If you have a month-to-month tenancy, you pay rent once a month and your rental agreement continues until either you or your landlord ends it. To end a month-to-month tenancy, you or your landlord must give each other written notice. This notice can be given at any time, but it must allow for at least 30 days before the actual date of termination The notice must clearly state the date that the tenancy will end. In private rental housing, it is not necessary for either party to give a reason for ending the tenancy, although a landlord may not give such a notice for an illegal reason. A landlord may base a court eviction proceeding on a 30-day notice given by a tenant. However, in some kinds of housing, including some government subsidized housing programs, a landlord cannot evict a tenant with a 30-day no-cause notice.

Criminal Law

Criminal acts are defined as offenses against the public order. The federal government – along with cities and states – prosecutes people who commit crimes that range from minor traffic violations to violent offenses such as rape and murder. The person charged with a crime – the defendant – is represented by a criminal defense attorney. The lawyer who represents the governmental body pursuing charges against the defendant is called a prosecutor. If you are charged with a crime, you need the legal counsel of an experienced criminal defense attorney. Remember, the prosecutor has all the resources of the government arrayed against you. In order to protect your rights you need a defense attorney who will fight for you. Lopez & Lopez Law Firm’s criminal defense practice focuses on matters involving drugs, accidents, white collar crimes like frauds and forgeries, assault and domestic violence. Our criminal defense practice focuses on:
Family Law

Family law is the term applied to the laws and rules developed regarding family relationships. Family law rules define not only the relationships between members of a family but also between a family and society as a whole. More than any other area of the law, family law reflects the values society shares regarding how people who are related should treat each other. When you are faced with an important life decision regarding a key family relationship, the advice and assistance of a family law attorney often proves crucial to your understanding of the issues involved and your satisfaction with the ultimate outcome of your family law matter.

Typically, family law attorneys assist people in making and breaking family relationships. Specific areas of representation include marriage and relationship planning, divorce, paternity, child custody, and child support. Some family law attorneys also provide assistance in the area of adoption.
Child Support

Parents must financially support their children. That obligation usually lasts until the child reaches the age of majority (usually 18 or 21 years old depending on state law) or becomes self-supporting. An order for child support may be entered during or after a divorce, and either parent may be ordered to pay support depending upon how custody is arranged. In most states, an unmarried mother may also file a petition for child support in family court, and an order for support will be entered once paternity has been established.

A parent who fails to remain current on his or her child support obligations faces significant penalties. Every state has a child support enforcement office that works with the family court to suspend professional or business licenses, take away driver and recreational licenses, require payment of future owed sums in advance, or place non-paying parents in jail when child support obligations are overdue. Because of the state specific requirements involved in child support, parents can benefit from the advice and involvement of a family law attorney at our firm when child support issues arise.
Child Custody

The care and upbringing of children following divorce is often an ongoing source of conflict for divorcing parents. Custody must address both physical custody and legal custody. Physical custody typically involves allocating parental rights and responsibilities regarding the day-to-day care and activities of the children. Legal custody typically involves allocating the legal rights and responsibilities associated with the child's upbringing.

Sometimes the parents agree to an arrangement; sometimes the court determines one for them. In the past, courts routinely gave mothers physical custody and gave fathers visitation rights. Today, the courts have begun to realize that sometimes it is in the best interests of the children to reside with the father and reverse the roles of the parents. In general, the courts favor joint ongoing child rearing responsibilities with the children residing where it is most practical and where they will flourish. The advice and assistance of a family law attorney can help parents to establish child custody and visitation agreements that focus on the interests of the children.
Divorce

For most families, the decision to divorce opens the door to several difficult issues that must be resolved. Whether through negotiation or litigation, we will work with you and your family members to achieve fair and favorable arrangements on tough issues, while always protecting your rights, interests, and goals.
Child Paternity

A paternity action is brought when the parents of a child are not married in order to establish paternity, custody parenting plan, and child support. Paternity actions can involve an agreement between the parties as to who is the child's biological father, or they can involve blood testing. Sometimes a birth certificate can be amended to name a father once that has been established. At the end of a paternity action a declaration of parentage will be entered by the court once all the facts have been established. A custody parenting plan that is fair and is in the child's best interest will be entered by the court.