- Child Custody and VisitationThank you Joe Stanley for helping Jimmy in his auto accident suit and thank you from me to try and help find me a suitable Pennsylvania child custody attorney to fight for my grandaughters after my beloved daughter passed away ! Always willing to help!
- Criminal DefenseSchwartz & Schwartz offers a FREE CONSULTATION with Criminal Defense Lawyers in Delaware to anyone who has been arrested or who has been contacted about a prospective criminal arrest.
- DUI/DWIOur DUI defense practice is led by James M. “Matt” Stiller, Jr. Mr. Stiller serves as a DUI defense lawyer in all Delaware Courts. Read more about Mr. Stiller on his personal page
- Wrongful DeathStephen Price Norman maintains an office on Route 1, Coastal Highway in South Bethany Beach, DE. From this office, Mr. Norman handles injury and wrongful death claims resulting from
- Traffic ViolationsWe are Delaware traffic ticket lawyers with offices located to provide expert legal representation in traffic ticket cases in all Courts in Delaware. Schwartz & Schwartz offers a
- Sex Crimes
- FraudHealthcare Fraud – Title 11 Del.C. Section 913A prohibits healthcare fraud. Healthcare fraud is, essentially, presenting false claims to a health insurer or other healthcare benefits provider. An example of healthcare fraud (this is not a real case – just an example for illustrative purposes) might be the case of a surgeon who bills health insurers for surgeries he never performed, or a clinic that pays fake patients to fake car accidents and then bills their auto insurers for medical care that was never rendered. Healthcare fraud is a serious felony that may result in substantial prison time and large financial penalties. In addition, a medical provider arrested and/or convicted of Healthcare Fraud will find him or herself in hot water with the Delaware Division of Professional Regulation as well.
- RobberyRobbery is, in its most basic definition, stealing something from someone through the use of violence or threat of violence. Our attorneys have a great deal of experience defending robbery cases in the Delaware Superior Courts. We have defended people accused of robbing stores, restaurants, and other individuals (even a pizza delivery man one time).
- BurglaryBurglary, generally, means breaking into a dwelling with the intent to commit a crime therein. People often confuse Burglary with Robbery. Have you ever seen a television show or movie where the homeowner arrives home to find someone broke in and stole their possessions? What did they say? Chances are, they blurted out, “We’ve been robbed!” Well that’s not true. They were burglarized. Our attorneys have a lot of experience defending Burglary cases in Wilmington, Dover, and Georgetown in the Superior Court. The problem with Burglary cases is that they are easily consolidated. If a person is arrested and charged with one burglary case, they may find themselves charged with every burglary case in the county that seems similar, that fits the “modus operandi”. In this way, the detective can clear his docket, but the defendant is left to defend a lot of cases he didn’t commit.
- White Collar CrimesDover, Delaware. Our lawyers defend people and companies charged with all manner of white-collar crimes in New Castle County, Kent County, and Sussex County, Delaware.
- Theft
- MisdemeanorsHome Improvement Fraud – Title 11 Del.C. Section 916 makes it a crime to commit home improvement fraud. Home improvement fraud in most cases means taking money to complete a construction project on someone’s house without actually substantially completing the project. Home improvement fraud is a misdemeanor unless the payment was $1,500 or more, the alleged victim is 62 years or older, or the defendant has a prior home improvement fraud conviction, in which case the crime becomes a felony.
- EmbezzlementEmbezzlement – Embezzlement is theft or misappropriation of funds over which you have been entrusted, or which belong to your employer. Embezzlement is basically theft while you are serving in a trusted capacity. If arrested for embezzlement in Delaware, you are unlikely to be charged with a crime called embezzlement. Rather, you will likely be charged with Theft, Wire Fraud, Tax Fraud for not reporting the transfer of wealth to yourself, or other crimes.
- Drug CrimesDrug crimes such as possession, possession with intent to deliver, trafficking, manufacturing, and delivery, maintaining a vehicle, maintaining a dwelling, and other drug offenses.
- Assault
- MurderYou know if that claims representative were your attorney or your doctor or some other professional working for you, they would have an obligation to advise you. This is where the money comes from. We are not doing any favor. We are paying out the money that we would have had to pay out anyways but because they are the adverse party’s insurance company, they do not owe you that obligation in most cases and so they are not going to volunteer anything. If they can get away with murder, they will get away with murder.
- Identity TheftIdentity Theft – 11 Del.C. Section 834 prohibits Identity Theft. Identity theft is a class D felony. Identity theft is using another person’s personal identifying information without their consent in order to commit a crime. For example, if a person is alleged to have stolen and used another person’s identity to obtain credit cards or a cell phone in that other person’s name, then that could be a form of identity theft.
- ShopliftingThere are many crimes in the Delaware Code that relate in some way to theft. For example, we have a criminal Extortion law, a law for Embezzlement, one for Shoplifting, and one for Fraud. A discussion of each of these crimes is a matter that will be explored in other pages. But if you have been arrested and charged with any of these offenses...
- ForgeryForgery – Forgery involves fraudulently altering a written instrument of another person or creating a written instrument that purports to be the act of another person or possessing a written instrument that is itself a forgery. For example, if a patient receives a script from their doctor for 10 Percocet, but adds a 0 to make it 100 Percocet, that may get them arrested for forgery. Or if someone takes another person’s blank check and writes out a check and cashes it, then that could lead to forgery charges. In most cases, forgery is a felony although Delaware does have a misdemeanor forgery offense on the books. 11 Del.C. Section 861 covers forgery in Delaware.
- Money LaunderingMoney Laundering – Title 11 Del.C. Section 951 makes money laundering a felony under Delaware law. Money laundering means, essentially, that you are accused of dealing with money that represents the proceeds from some other illegal activity. Here’s an example (this is just a made-up example for illustrative purposes and not a real case): Let’s say our client owns an unlicensed card room in Wilmington, DE that generates several thousand dollars in proceeds each week from the rake of the card games and from alcohol sales. The client also owns a chain of (otherwise legal and legitimate) laundromats. At the end of each week, if the client dumps the cash profits from the card room into the bank deposits for the laundromats, that would be a classic case of money laundering.
- KidnappingOur client was accused of kidnapping and attempted robbery. Again, our client was facing life in prison under the Delaware habitual offender statute. Our client was found Not Guilty.
- Manslaughter
- Extortion
- Hit and Run
- Corporate LawComplex Corporate, Business and Commercial Litigation issues require the expertise of skilled legal corporate litigation professionals with experience in the industry and the ability to provide tenacious, informed advocacy. If you have been confronted with a complex corporate issue and you wish to speak with an expert Delaware corporate litigation attorney about your options...
- Antitrust
- Workers CompensationWhen it comes to personal injury and workers compensation claims, you cannot beat Schwartz & Schwartz. Ben Schwartz and Joe Stanley do an excellent job.
- Employment Litigation
- Real Estate Litigation
- Premises LiabilityPremises liability cases, including fall accidents, injuries occurring due to defective conditions arising from the construction, maintenance or use of buildings or grounds...
- Construction Litigation
- Property DamageOkay, so warning stay back 200 feet not responsible for broken windshields. Here is what I got to tell you. Is it a good idea to stay back a few hundred feet when you are traveling behind a dump truck? Absolutely! Is the driver of the dump truck responsible if debris comes out of the truck and hits your windshield? Absolutely! Now there are a couple of different scenarios where a dump truck could end up sending debris back to strike your vehicle causing damage like a broken window. But it can also cause injuries because sometimes what hits the window comes through the window. Sometimes it surprises the driver of the following vehicle and the driver of the following vehicle loses control. Sometimes the debris from the dump truck lands on the roadway and doesn’t strike the vehicle but vehicles try to go around it and strike each other, sideswipe each other and run off the road. You know debris from dump trucks and other commercial vehicles is a big problem and that type of accident causes many injuries and a lot of property damage every year.
- Personal InjuryPersonal injury lawyer for your Eastern Sussex County, DE or Eastern Shore of Maryland case? Schwartz & Schwartz personal injury lawyer
- Medical MalpracticeSo, if this is a situation you have, what you want to do is you want to get to a physician, preferably not the physician that left the instrument in your body. And you want to get a lawyer, preferably a lawyer that handles medical malpractice cases, including retained surgical implement or retained surgical instrument cases in the area where you live or where you had the surgery. In other words, in the jurisdiction where you are. You want to make sure that your lawyer is able to handle cases in that jurisdiction. So, you want to make sure that they have subject matter expertise as well as geographical expertise, and geographical availability for you.
- Auto Accidents
- Dog Bites
- Slip and Fall Injury
- Estate PlanningWills and other estate planning documents. If you don’t have a Will, you should make one with our assistance. If you have a Will already, but it has been some time since you reviewed it with an attorney, you should review it to make sure that still expresses your wishes. If it doesn’t, we can help you fix it with a Codicil.
- WillsWe have expert attorneys on staff who handle everything from Wills and Estates to Healthcare & Civil Rights violations. Our attorneys are experts in their craft. If you need help with a Veterans’ Benefits Claim, a Delaware Trust, Appellate Litigation, Local Counsel in Delaware for Pro Hac Vice Admissions and more, look no further.
- TrustsPlease click here. If you are currently represented by an S&S attorney and you would like to learn more about wills, trusts and estates, ask your attorney to schedule you for a free consultation with Steven or Bill.
- Power of AttorneyWe try to make proper estate planning reasonably affordable for average people. Fees in estate planning matters are set by the consulting attorney. Our fee for our basic package including a simple will, durable power of attorney, and advance healthcare directive starts at under $1,000.00 per person.
- Bankruptcy