OUR LEGAL SERVICES
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Real Life. Real Law. Real Preparation.
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Legal problems rarely stay confined to paperwork or a courtroom. They affect families, homes, property, finances, businesses, and the decisions people must make during some of life’s most difficult moments.
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Hampton Law Firm provides practical, Louisiana-focused legal services with an emphasis on preparation, clear communication, and helping clients understand what happens next.
Our practice includes estate planning, real estate transactions and title insurance, successions, uncontested divorces, interdictions and continuing tutorships, boundary disputes, and selected civil matters.
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Every matter is different. The information on this page is general and is not a substitute for legal advice about your particular circumstances. Submitting an intake form or contacting our office does not create an attorney-client relationship or guarantee that Hampton Law Firm can accept your matter.
SERVICES AT A GLANCE
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ESTATE PLANNING
Wills, powers of attorney, health care planning, planning for minor children, blended-family considerations, and digital assets.
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REAL ESTATE AND TITLE INSURANCE
Purchases, sales, closings, deeds, title examinations, title insurance, curative work, and property transfers.
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SUCCESSIONS
Testate and intestate successions, small-succession affidavits, judicial successions, Judgments of Possession, and inherited-property issues.
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UNCONTESTED DIVORCE
Louisiana Article 102 and Article 103 divorces when the spouses do not require contested litigation.
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INTERDICTION, CONTINUING TUTORSHIP, AND GUARDIANSHIP-RELATED MATTERS
Proceedings involving adults or qualifying children who need legal protection, assistance, or decision-making support.
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BOUNDARY DISPUTES AND OTHER CIVIL MATTERS
Boundary disagreements, access and right-of-way issues, property disputes, title-related litigation, contracts, and selected civil claims.
ESTATE PLANNING AND HOW WE CAN HELP
Planning Today So the People You Love Have a Clearer Tomorrow
Estate planning is not only about deciding what happens to your property after your death. It is also about deciding who can act for you, manage your affairs, make health care decisions, and carry out your wishes if illness, injury, age, or incapacity prevents you from doing those things yourself.
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Hampton Law Firm helps Louisiana individuals and families prepare estate plans that reflect their actual lives. Your plan may include a Last Will and Testament, power of attorney, health care documents, end-of-life instructions, planning for minor children, and authority concerning digital assets and online accounts.
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Estate planning is especially important for parents of minor children, blended families, unmarried couples, business owners, people who own family land, and families caring for a person with special needs.
Without a valid will, Louisiana law determines who inherits your property. That result may be different from what you expect, particularly when separate property, community property, children from a previous relationship, usufruct, or forced-heirship issues are involved.
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Our goal is not simply to hand you documents. We want you to understand what you are signing, why each document matters, and how the different parts of your estate plan work together.
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BEGIN YOUR ESTATE PLAN
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Complete our Estate Planning Intake Form so we can learn about your family, property, concerns, and goals before determining the appropriate next step.
WE GUIDE YOU THROUGH REAL ESTATE & TITLE INSURANCE SO THAT YOU UNDERSTAND THE PROCESS
REAL ESTATE AND TITLE INSURANCE
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Helping You Understand What You Are Signing—and What You Are Actually Buying
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A real estate closing involves more than signing a deed and receiving the keys. The legal history of the property must be examined to determine how ownership was acquired and whether recorded problems may affect the buyer, seller, lender, or property.
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Hampton Law Firm assists with Louisiana real estate purchases, sales, closings, deeds, title examinations, title insurance, curative work, donations, family transfers, partitions, and other property transactions.
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A title examination may reveal mortgages, liens, unpaid taxes, judgments, servitudes, rights of way, incorrect legal descriptions, missing successions, conflicting ownership interests, or defects in prior transactions.
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Title insurance provides protection against certain covered title problems connected to the property’s history. A lender’s policy generally protects the lender, while an owner’s policy protects the buyer’s covered ownership interest, subject to the policy’s terms, exceptions, exclusions, and limits.
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We also help address property that remains titled in the name of a deceased person, land that has passed informally through several generations, and transactions requiring corrective deeds, releases, succession work, surveys, or other curative documents.
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Our goal is to help you understand the property, the title work, the closing process, and the documents you are signing before the transaction is completed.
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BEGIN YOUR REAL ESTATE OR TITLE REQUEST
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Complete our Real Estate and Title Request Form and provide any available deed, purchase agreement, survey, tax notice, title commitment, or other property document.
GUIDING YOU THROUGH THE GRIEF, WE HELP YOU NAVIGATE LOUISIANA SUCCESSIONS
LOUISIANA SUCCESSIONS & SMALL SUCCESSION AFFIDAVITS
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Helping Families Transfer Property After a Death
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A succession is the Louisiana legal process used to identify a deceased person’s heirs or legatees, address the estate’s property and obligations, and place inherited property into the names of the people legally entitled to receive it.
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Having a will does not necessarily eliminate the need for a succession. A will states the deceased person’s wishes, but it does not ordinarily change bank records, vehicle titles, or public property records by itself.
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When someone dies without a valid will, Louisiana law determines who inherits. The answer depends on the type of property involved and which relatives survived the deceased. Community property and separate property may pass differently, and a surviving spouse does not necessarily inherit everything.
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Some estates may qualify for a small-succession affidavit. Others require a judicial succession, appointment of an executor or administrator, administration of estate property, or a Judgment of Possession.
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Succession problems often become more complicated when family land has passed through multiple generations, the original will cannot be located, heirs disagree, property is located in different parishes or states, the deceased had significant debts, or someone has already sold, removed, or distributed estate property.
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We help families identify the appropriate succession procedure, gather the necessary information, and work toward placing property into the correct names.
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Complete our Succession Intake Form and provide any available will, death certificate, deed, tax notice, bank information, vehicle title, or other estate document.
OTHER CIVIL MATTERS
OTHER LEGAL SERVICES
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Practical Guidance When Life Becomes Legal
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Not every legal problem fits neatly into estate planning, real estate, title insurance, or successions. Hampton Law Firm also assists with selected uncontested divorces, interdictions and guardianship-related proceedings, boundary disputes, and other civil matters.
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UNCONTESTED DIVORCE
An uncontested divorce generally means that both spouses want the divorce and do not require contested hearings over custody, support, property, or other disputed issues.
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For a standard non-covenant marriage, Louisiana generally requires spouses to live separate and apart continuously for 180 days when there are no minor children of the marriage or 365 days when there are minor children.
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An Article 102 divorce generally begins before the required separation period has been completed. An Article 103(1) divorce may generally be filed after the spouses have already lived separate and apart for the required period.
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Even in an uncontested divorce, one attorney cannot represent both spouses. Hampton Law Firm represents only one spouse. The other spouse has the right to obtain independent legal advice before signing any document.
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A divorce judgment ends the marriage, but it does not necessarily divide community property, transfer a house or vehicle, refinance a debt, divide retirement benefits, or resolve every financial obligation. Those matters may require separate documents or proceedings.
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Our goal is to complete an uncontested divorce respectfully and accurately while making sure our client understands what the divorce does—and what it does not do.
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INTERDICTION, CONTINUING TUTORSHIP, AND GUARDIANSHIP-RELATED MATTERS
Families sometimes reach a point when an adult can no longer consistently make or communicate reasoned decisions concerning personal care, medical treatment, finances, property, or safety.
People commonly refer to the needed proceeding as “guardianship.” In Louisiana, the appropriate legal process may be a full or limited interdiction, continuing tutorship, tutorship of a minor, or another protective arrangement.
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Interdiction is a serious court proceeding that can affect a person’s fundamental rights. It is not granted simply because a person is elderly, disabled, makes decisions the family dislikes, or needs occasional assistance.
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A full interdiction may be appropriate when a person cannot consistently make or communicate reasoned decisions concerning both personal care and property, and the person’s interests cannot be protected through less restrictive means.
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A limited interdiction may be appropriate when assistance is needed in specific areas but the person can continue making other decisions independently. The court should not remove more authority than is necessary.
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Continuing tutorship may be available for certain qualifying people with intellectual or adaptive-functioning disabilities. Families should seek guidance before an urgent medical, educational, or financial decision arises.
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Our goal is to help families understand the available options while protecting the person’s safety, dignity, property, and remaining independence.
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BOUNDARY DISPUTES
Property disputes often begin with something that appears small: a fence, driveway, road, survey stake, gate, tree, drainage problem, or disagreement about where one person’s property ends and another person’s begins.
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A boundary dispute may involve conflicting deeds, inconsistent surveys, encroachments, family property, access to a public road, rights of way, missing markers, incorrect legal descriptions, or one person’s long-term use of another person’s property.
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The location of a fence does not automatically establish the legal boundary. At the same time, the description in a deed may not be the only relevant consideration when possession, visible boundaries, prior agreements, or acquisitive prescription is involved.
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A survey is often important, but a survey alone may not resolve the legal dispute. The deeds, public records, physical evidence, history of possession, and actions of prior owners may all need to be examined.
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Before removing a fence, blocking a road, moving a survey marker, cutting timber, confronting a neighbor, or building on disputed property, obtain legal advice. Acting too quickly can worsen the dispute, destroy evidence, or expose a person to additional claims.
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OTHER CIVIL MATTERS
Hampton Law Firm evaluates selected civil matters involving property, contracts, ownership, unpaid obligations, damages, title problems, family land, and other private disputes.
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Not every disagreement should become a lawsuit. Litigation can be expensive, time-consuming, and uncertain. Before recommending a particular course of action, we consider the documents, available evidence, legal issues, practical goals, likely expense, and ability to enforce or collect a judgment.
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Depending on the circumstances, a written demand, negotiation, settlement, corrective document, or recorded agreement may provide a practical solution. Other matters require formal court proceedings.
Civil claims are subject to filing deadlines. Submitting a form, leaving a voicemail, sending an email, or providing documents does not stop a legal deadline and does not mean Hampton Law Firm has accepted the matter.
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BEGIN YOUR INQUIRY
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Complete our intake form here to get started. If you are unsure which form to use, select “Message Our Front Desk,” and our staff will direct you to the appropriate form, consultation, or next step.
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Submitting an intake form or contacting our office does not create an attorney-client relationship. Hampton Law Firm has not agreed to represent you, protect a deadline, file a document, or take legal action unless the firm expressly accepts the representation in writing.