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brandau & waltz law

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From their law offices at 420 5th Avenue South in La Crosse, Wisconsin, the attorneys at Brandau & Waltz Law Offices, LLP have been helping people find solutions to their legal problems for more than thirty combined years.

Attorney Ann Brandau devotes her professional time and energies to helping people with family law issues such as divorce, custody matters, and support issues. In practice since 1986, Attorney Ann Brandau provides her clients with the skills and abilities that only a tremendous amount of experience in family law can provide. For more than two decades, Attorney Ann Brandau has been finding workable solutions for family and their legal issues. Below are general descriptions of the types of legal cases that Attorney Ann Brandau has helped people with in her twenty plus years of handling family law disputes and law suits.

Attorney Peter Waltz devotes his legal practice to helping people with workers' compensation, social security, disability and personal injury matters. For more than two decades, Pete has been finding solutions for people to help them through situations where they have been hurt at work or in the course of their employment, in accidents that have caused them permanent disabilities, and in situations where they have been denied benefits from the social security administration or workers' comp insurance. Attorney Waltz is very family with the in's-and-out's of the SSI and WC process and the administrative difficulties that those agencies cause people. Below are general descriptions of the type of legal work that Attorney Peter Waltz has been able to help people with in his more than twenty years of handling these types of claims.

Divorce

By definition, divorce is the dissolution of a marriage, and since marriage is perceived as a legal partnership under Wisconsin law, a divorce means that the marital property and assets of a marriage must be divided, provisions for the care and custody of the couple's children must be considered and put into place by court order, and debts must be assigned to the appropriate party. By definition, divorce seems a trite legal process, but in reality there are two critical factors involved - the complexities of the marriage and the marital property, and the complexities of the emotional difficulties. In her more than twenty years of practicing in family law, Attorney Ann Brandau has gained a phenomenal ability to understand and help her clients with complex legal family law matters, but she has never lost her appreciation for the hardship that divorce can bring.

Family Law

While the majority of family law issues involve divorce, custody, and support, family law encompasses a broad area of law that deal with people's relationships and financial matters. Attorney Ann Brandau possesses a wealth of experience in helping her clients with everything from premarital agreements to adoption to estate planning to termination of parental rights and guardian ad litem matters (representing a child's best interest).

Disability

It may surprise some people to know that the majority of social security claims are denied when an applicant files the first time. However, with the help of a lawyer highly experienced in the area of social security claim appeals, those same people's claims are approved on appeal. For more than twenty years, Attorney Peter Waltz has been helping people appeal their social security disability claims. If your claim has been denied, it is time to get help from a lawyer who has been working in this field for decades. There is no cost or obligation for an initial consultation, and you do not ever have to pay a fee out of your own pocket.

Work Comp

When a person is employed by a company, the cost that the company pays to the government for workers' compensation insurance is figured into the total cost of employing the employee. An employer pays workers' compensation insurance to insure that you have benefits to take care of an injury if you are hurt on the job. However, the bringing of such a claim is a very complex matter that is seldom made simpler by the government agencies that handle workers' compensation claims. Attorney Peter Waltz has been handling work comp claims for decades and possesses the intricate expert knowledge to bring a successful claim.

Personal Injury

If you have been injured in an accident due to someone else's carelessness or negligence - whether they intended to cause the accident - chances are that they have insurance in place to handle those types of situations. When a person files a claim for compensation for their loss wages, medical bills, pain, suffering, loss of consortium, or permanent disabling injuries, the claim is against an insurance company who has been paid to provide insurance for just such situations. Whether you are ready to file a claim for recovery of your losses, or just have questions about resources available to you, call Attorney Peter Waltz for the answers. There is no obligation or fee for an initial consultation for an injury case - ever. 

Litigation

Attorney Brandau & Attorney Waltz are always prepared to take your case to trial.

Appeals

One of the best benefits about hiring Attorney Ann Brandau for a family law issue or Attorney Peter Waltz for an injury issue is that they can handle your case across the entire spectrum of litigation. They possess the acumen of negotiations to attempt a reasonable and uncontested resolution to your legal matter, as well as the extensive courtroom trial experience to argue your case successfully, whether the opposition is a solo firm or a huge corporate firm, whether in a Circuit Court or on appeal.