Karen M. Kennedy & Associates PLC
Attorneys at Law
Practice Areas
Bankruptcy Law
Bankruptcy laws help people who can no longer pay their creditors get a fresh start – by liquidating assets to pay their debts or by creating a repayment plan. Bankruptcy laws also protect troubled businesses and provide for orderly distributions to business creditors through reorganization or liquidation.
Most cases are filed under the three main chapters of the Bankruptcy Code – Chapter 7, Chapter 11, and Chapter 13. Federal courts have exclusive jurisdiction over bankruptcy cases. This means that a bankruptcy case cannot be filed in a state court.
Traffic Law
Traffic Laws are the laws in which govern traffic and regulate vehicles, while rules of the road are both the laws and the informal rules of the road that may have developed over time to facilitate the orderly and timely flow of traffic.
Foreclosures
​
A procedure by which the holder of a mortgage—an interest in land providing security for the performance of a duty or the payment of a debt—sells the property upon the failure of the debtor to pay the mortgage debt and, thereby, terminates his or her rights in the property.
Personal Injury
​
​Personal Injury as defined by injury to the mind, body, as opposed to an injury of property.
​
​
Real Estate Law
​
Real estate law is the name given to the branch of civil law that covers rights to possess, use, and enjoy land and the permanent manmade additions attached to it. This includes the capacity to hold interests in real property, permissible interests in real property, relations between owners, relations between owners and the community, landlord and tenant relations, the transfer of interests in real property, and real property financing, including deeds and mortgages. Real estate transactions, such as purchases, sales, and leases, are governed by a wide body of federal and state law, and the requirements established by state law often differ from state to state.
Criminal Law
A violation of a law in which there is injury to the public or a member of the public and a term in jail or prison, and/or a fine as possible penalties.