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Jim Siemens - Siemens Law Office PA

Siemens Law Office PA

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Phone: (828) 252-5080

Address: 202 E Chestnut St, Asheville, NC 28801

Divorce
Child Support
Like most states, North Carolina uses child support guidelines to help simplify the process of determining child support. North Carolina’s guidelines are based on an income shares model, which is predicated on the concept that the child should receive the same proportion of parental income that he/she would receive if the parents lived together.
Child Custody and Visitation
North Carolina’s Family Court Advisory Commission released a helpful resource providing general guidance to parents with existing child custody and/or visitation orders in place during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Premarital Agreement
The Rise of the Millennial Prenup discusses the benefits of prenuptial agreements, and particularly the relevance of these agreements for millennials, who are often getting married later in life and building up more assets before marriage than previous generations.
Spousal Support
How does a judge determine the amount and duration of an alimony award? One of the goals of alimony is to ensure that a dependent spouse has adequate resources to meet his or her needs in accordance with the standard of living established by the parties during their marriage.
Child Abuse
Ellen is employed part time as an attorney and community outreach specialist at Safelight, Inc., Henderson County’s domestic violence, sexual assault and child abuse service provider, where she was previously on the Board of Directors.

Criminal Defense
Jim’s success in high profile cases drew clients with family law cases. Jim transitioned from criminal defense to family law over time. Jim discovered he preferred the nuanced attorney client relationship that forms in a family law case and gradually narrowed the scope of his practice to family law. In 2007, the State Bar certified Jim as a specialist in family law. He maintains the family law specialist certification by peer review and has entered his second decade in the specialty.
Sex Crimes
Drug Crimes
His legal skills have been honed by experience. Jim arrived in Asheville in 1994 and quickly developed his practice. Drug cases, capital murder cases, juvenile cases, and court-appointed cases throughout Western North Carolina put Jim in State and Federal Courtrooms in front of judges and juries. Jim gained solid trial experience early in his career.
Assault
Murder
Arson
Restraining Order
North Carolina’s Supreme Court ruled earlier this year that victims of domestic violence in same-sex relationships can obtain 50B domestic violence restraining orders. The Supreme Court’s decision affirmed a 2020 ruling from the Court of Appeals which held that the State’s law allowing same-sex couples to seek domestic violence protective orders only if they’re married or divorced is unconstitutional. This means North Carolinians in abusive same-sex dating relationships can now pursue the protection of 50B restraining orders against their abusers.

Business Disputes
Siemens says he enjoys practicing family law for its intricacy, its requirement for emotional intelligence, and the need to attune, empathize, regulate, and focus. “This area of law requires legal knowledge over a broad range of practice areas, including tax, real estate, estates, commercial transactions, business law and bankruptcy, not to mention law specific to marriage, separation, and divorce,” he says. “I’m drawn to the complexity and have a skillset that matches the intellectual and interpersonal challenges of the practice area.”
Business Transactions

Personal Injury
In addition to family law, he is experienced in the areas of general liability defense, personal injury, construction, arson, fraud, premises liability, and trucking matters. He is comfortable both in and out of a courtroom and knows what needs to be done to achieve the best possible result for his clients.

Bankruptcy
Tax Law
Tax law changes went into effect on January 1 which will impact how separating spouses negotiate agreements in the new year. If you are separating from your spouse in 2019, it is important to talk with an experienced family law attorney and a tax expert about how the new law will affect you.

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