A Wisconsin Divorce & Family Law Firm

Stillings & Buchinger, LLC

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Attorney Gordon E. Stillings and Attorney Melody Buchinger, the founders of Stillings & Buchinger, LLC, are exclusively devoted to helping people with their family law issues including divorce and the legal issues that arise before and after divorce such as maintenance, custody, and visitation. Additionally, Attorney Gordon Stillings is a certified mediator.

Divorce

• Legal Separation: a first step in the divorce process or a separate legal action.
• Collaborative Divorce Law: a relatively newer form of divorce focused on a mediation style in which both parties have their own attorney and both agree to resolve the issues (not go to court) with the assistance of financial and legal counselors.
• Contested Divorce: from a court's view, all divorces are contested matters initially; contested divorce usually means litigated divorces in which the parties have disputes over children, property (including money), or support.
• Divorce effects insurance, social security benefits, and deferred income plans including Wisconsin Retirement System accounts are affected by divorce.
• Marital property includes property acquired during (and sometimes before) the marriage. A marital property settlement or agreement must be formed for all divorces.
• Mediation can be used to resolve issues between divorcing spouses. Court ordered mediation is mandated by a judge and paid for by the parties to the divorce.
• Uncontested divorce: the parties have resolved all of the issues pertinent to divorce and the marital property agreement that the court requires; the attorneys prepare their stipulation.

Prenuptial's & Postnuptial's

The law offices of Stillings & Buchinger frequently prepares prenuptial agreements for people entering into marriage and post-nuptial agreements between spouses.

Custody & Visitation

Attorney Gordon E. Stillings and Attorney Melody Buchinger handle every type of custody suit, but most consist of contested custody lawsuits in which one parent seeks a modification to a custody order that the other parent contests, or a custody order by joint or contested agreement during the divorce proceedings.

Support & Maintenance

Attorney Gordon E. Stillings and Attorney Melody Buchinger handle every type of support or maintenance action. In most instances, they litigate support and maintenance actions, handle agreements between spouses related to either support or maintenance, and represent people in modifications to support or maintenance.

Adoption

Attorney Gordon E. Stillings and Attorney Melody Buchinger handle a variety of adoption matters, but not every type; they are not an adoption agency. The most frequent type of adoption is a stepparent adoption of a stepchild.

Free Initial Consultation

To arrange for a free initial consultation with either Attorney Gordon Stillings or Attorney Melody Buchinger, please call the office (920-725-5305, or if you are outside of the local Neenah, Wisconsin area, then 866-249-2582) during regular business hours (8-5, M-F, except legal holidays), or e-mail Attorney Stillings or Attorney Buchinger.

Attorney-Client Relationship & Privileged Information

An attorney-client relationship with Stillings & Buchinger is formed when you decide to hire one of the attorneys and they agree to represent you. Once the relationship is formed, then all of the information exchanged between you and your attorney is privileged and cannot be disclosed without your permission. However, the information that you send over the Internet, via e-mail, fax, or voicemail cannot be privileged. Please keep these facts in mind whenever you communicate with an attorney.