Rosemary Beach, Florida, Attorneys

Working in Criminal Law, Real Estate, Business Law, Personal Injury, Estate and Probate, and More 

At Pleat, Perry & Ritchie, we work in a wide range of legal fields for people across the country, with most clients residing in or near Rosemary Beach, Florida. Our business counselors, association lawyers, and experienced commercial lawyers each have a depth of understanding in his or her chosen field that is complemented by the breadth of experience in the firm as a whole.

Our primary practice areas are as follows:

• Association Law - Our firm provides counsel to a variety of condominium and homeowners associations and individuals with association law legal concerns, including litigation, claims of lien and foreclosures.
• Banking Law - Our firm represents several area banks in relation to commercial closings, document preparation, foreclosure, and general counsel.
• Bankruptcy - We handle debtor chapter 7 and creditor chapters 7, 11 and 13 (including adversary proceedings).  Free consultation for potential new bankruptcy clients.
• Business and Commercial Law - We provide a wide variety of services to our business clients from assisting in selecting the type of organizational entity under which to operate, preparation of agreements, sale and purchase of businesses, obtaining financing and funding for business operations, to dissolution.
• Collection - We handle all aspects of debtor and creditor representation.
• Construction Law - Builders, contractors, liens and construction deferred claims.
• Criminal Law - Our lawyers have experience defending the rights of people arrested and accused of criminal offenses. We handle all types of criminal cases, including minor infractions and misdemeanors and the most serious felony indictments, such as drunk driving (DUI), drug possession, narcotics sales, theft and grand larceny, white collar fraud, embezzlement, sex offenses, arson, conspiracy, and violation of probation.
• Elder Law – Our firm provides counsel regarding Medicaid qualified long term care entitlement services, including spend down strategies, Medicaid qualified income trusts, personal services agreements, and exempt asset protection and preservation.
• Estate Planning, Wills and Trusts - From the simple to the complex, services are provided to assure that an individual’s plan and desires are crafted with skill to assure efficient and effective preservation of assets, avoidance of taxes where relevant and possible, sound management and efficient distribution.  We assist clients with wills, pour over wills, testamentary trusts, living trusts, revocable and irrevocable, including credit shelter, generation tax skipping, insurance, and dynasty trusts.  Powers of Attorney, General and Special, Durable Powers of Attorney, traditional and springing, Living Wills and Health Care Surrogate Designations services are also provided.  Effective and efficient estate planning services, include attention to issues relating to tax consideration, such as income tax, estate tax, inheritance tax, generations skipping tax, and gift tax issues as well as attention to the proper titling of assets designed to accomplish a proficient plan. 
• Family Law - Our firm provides representation to individuals undergoing the painful process of divorce and provides counsel on issues such as child support, alimony, dissolution, temporary orders, and prenuptial agreements.
• Guardianship – Our attorneys provide counsel to each Guardians of Person and Property, for minors, or the physically or mentally incapacitated (incompetents). Services also include commencing incapacitation proceedings, or representation of the person alleged to be incapacitated. Firm members also serve as Elisors and Guardian Ad Litems.
• Hurricane Damage/Oil Spill Insurance Claims condominiums/commercial/residential - Our lawyers can assist you when natural disasters strike.
• Insurance Law - We assist policyholders with consumer insurance rights and insurance bad faith claims.

  David B. Pleat, Esq. and Amy A. Perry, Esq. have over 40 years of combined legal experience

• Labor & Employment Law - Our firm's employment and labor practice includes a wide spectrum of labor and employment matters including administrative practice before the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and state and federal Departments of Labor, client counseling in order to prevent litigation, employee handbook review, employment training, and litigation of employment matters in state and federal court.
• Land Use, Planning and Zoning – The firm provides private interests representation relating to land use, comprehensive planning, zoning, variances, special exceptions, conditional uses and code enforcement before local government agencies and its subdivisions, as well as post administrative litigation when indicated.
• Litigation and Appeals - Our firm represents and advises clients who are, or might become, involved in a lawsuit or appeal as a result of a dispute in such areas as personal injury and employment claims, contract disputes, and family law and commercial matters.
• Local Government Law – The firm’s lawyers provide services to Florida local governments, as general and special counsel, in the full range of local government systems, including advising and representing Councils, Commissions, Boards and Redevelopment Agencies.
• Malpractice - Our lawyers are experienced in professional malpractice law and can help clients determine whether or not malpractice has occurred where someone or something is injured as a result of negligence or misconduct of individuals in the dental, legal, medical, and other professional fields.
• Mediation/Arbitration Services - Partner Amy A. Perry, Esq. has attained the status of a Florida Supreme Court Certified Mediator and Qualified Arbitrator and handles county and circuit court civil cases. Her mediation and arbitration services extend to Okaloosa, Walton, Bay, Escambia and Santa Rosa Counties.
• Personal Injury - Our Rosemary Beach, Florida, injury attorneys represent people alleging a wrong or damage to their person, rights, reputation or property resulting from automobile/boating accidents, slip and falls, dog attacks, medical malpractice, wrongful deaths, defective products, infliction of emotional distress, spring break, intentional misconduct and negligence, and other incidents.
• Probate and Trust Administration - The firm provides counsel to Personal Representatives (Executors and Administrators), Trustees, beneficiaries and creditors in probate proceedings and trust administrations. Services relating to Will Contest, Challenging Conduct of Fiduciaries and other related contentious issues are also provided. The firm attorneys have extensive experience in probate from the simple, Summary Administrations, Ancillary for Florida non residents dying owning Florida real property, to Formal Administration, spanning the routine to the complex.
• Products Liability - The lawyers of our firm represent individuals who have been injured as a result of an unsafe product that was improperly designed, manufactured, sold, and/or furnished by a person or company. We assist those injured individuals in bringing their claims and pursuing fair compensation for their injuries.
• Real Estate - Our law firm handles all types of real estate litigation, real estate and developer contracts, 1031 Exchanges, construction litigation, foreclosures, deed issues, reservation programs, and escrow accounts. Our affiliated closing company, Dune Title Company, LLC, handles residential and commercial closings.   

Contact Us

Please contact our full service Rosemary Beach lawyers to set up a consultation about your case. We offer free initial consultations in personal injury, bankruptcy and criminal defense and do all personal injury work on contingency, charging no attorneys fees until compensation is recovered.