We use "DataPacks" to collect essential information from our potential clients. By downloading, printing and filling out these forms before your first appointment, you take an important first step toward being pro-actively involved in your case and, further, you help reduce your legal costs.

If you would prefer, we would be happy to sit down with you and fill out these forms with you, but you must understand that you will have to pay an attorney or a paralegal to do this for you. Wouldn't you rather do it yourself?

Before downloading, viewing and printing any of the following forms, you will have to have Adobe Acrobat installed on your computer. This is a very widely used "multi-platform" program for distributing forms and other data. The software is available for free from Adobe at http://www.adobe.com/prodindex/acrobat/readstep.html.

The Datapacks linked below are currently available on-line.  If you have trouble downloading or printing a Datapack before your first appointment, we'll be happy to fax or mail one to you if you'll just give us a call.

• For married/previously married couples:
  • Divorce Datapack and Verified Disclosure Statement form
  • Legal Separation Datapack with Verified Disclosure Statement form
  • Post-Divorce Datapack
  • Custody/Visitation Dispute Datapacks (for formerly married parents)
  • Annulment Datapack
  • Custody, Support and Parenting of a Special Needs Child
• For non-married parents of minor children:
  • Child Custody/Visitation/Support Datapack for non-married parents
• For parents of a child taken in an international child abduction:
  • International Child Abduction Datapack ("Taking Party or Parent" absconded with child or children to or from a Hague Convention Country)
• For grandparents:
  • Custody/Visitation Datapack for grandparents
  • Grandparent Adoption Datapack
• For couples contemplating marriage:
  • Pre-Nuptial Agreement Datapack
• For persons seeking appointment as custodian or guardian for a minor child:
  • Custodian/Guardianship Datapack
• For persons seeking to adopt their step-child(ren):
  • Step-Parent Adoption Datapack
• For any persons:
  • Estate Planning Datapack (for Last Will and Testament)
  • "Living Will" Datapack (for Health Care Directive)
  • Tort Claim Datapack
  • Probate Datapack (for Executors of deceased persons' estates)
  • Trust Planning Datapack (for establishing a trust)
  • Personal Injury Datapack (if you've been involved in a accident)
  • Discrimination Datapack (if you've been discriminated against on the job)
  • Corporation Datapack (if you're interested in setting up a new corporation)
• If none of the above seem appropriate to your situation, please use our "generic", all-purpose Datapack to provide us with basic potential client information.

IMPORTANT CAVEAT

"Caveat" is a legal term which you may not recognize.  Simply speaking, it means "warning". But you must understand this: 

The act of filling out and even mailing in or delivering to this firm any Datapack does not establish an attorney-client relationship with Hoge Partners, PLLC or any member of this firm.

Such a relationship is created only when a engagement agreement has been entered into by you and one of our attorneys and after the engagement fee has been agreed upon and received from the potential client.