
Our Practice
At Hubbard & Gottschall Law, we strive to provide excellent service to our clients and our community. Our practice areas include estate planning, probate administration, serving as business counsel for local business owners and entrepreneurs, and insurance coverage and bad faith litigation.
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Estate Planning
No family situation is the same, and each requires thoughtful planning to leave a lasting legacy. We offer estate planning guidance and services including preparation of last wills, powers of attorney, revocable trust agreements, and other supporting documents as necessary to build a plan designed with your unique circumstances and wishes in mind. Our focus is to offer a customized, relatable plan which gives you the comfort of knowing that your future is secure, regardless of your situation or your goals.
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Probate
No one should have to go through a tragedy alone. Our zealous advocacy can guide you or your loved ones through the nuances of the Probate process and help shoulder the legal burden a loved one’s passing can bring. We offer our services to help guide you through the probate administration process and to help you with the legal transfer of assets. We also prepare related legal documents (such as deeds of distribution) to help ensure that your loved one’s last wishes are met.
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Business Counsel
Whether you’re starting up a new business or running a longstanding business, your focus should be on one thing: running your business. We’re available to help you focus by providing legal and practical advice and services.
We’re ready to help you establish a new business, prepare or review operational documents such as operating agreements, bylaws, partnership agreements, and other documents, review agreements to ensure that you and your business are adequately protected; and provide legal and practical business advice.
Whether you’re an aspiring entrepreneur, new business owner, or running a well-established business, we’re here to help guide you through these distractions so that you can focus on the growth and success of your business.
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Insurance Coverage and Litigation
Our insurance coverage and litigation team handles a variety of insurance coverage issues, insurance coverage litigation, and extra-contractual and bad faith litigation. Our team has experience in South Carolina’s state trial and appellate courts, including South Carolina’s asbestos court, South Carolina and North Carolina federal district courts, and in federal appellate courts, including arguments before the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and petitions for certiorari to the United States Supreme Court.
Our team has worked extensively with claims and coverage matters involving a variety of insurance policies, including automobile policies, garage policies, homeowners policies, commercial general liability policies, farm policies, umbrella and excess policies, and others.