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Carrissa A Cleavinger Attorney

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She received her certification in Family Law from the Texas Board of Legal Specialization in 2007. Her diverse family law practice includes extensive experience with complex property situations, high net-worth estates, children’s issues, foreign and domestic adoptions, and grandparent interventions. Ms. McKim serves on the State Bar of Texas Family Law Section Council and currently fills the role of Secretary. The section seeks to promote professionalism, education, and excellence in the practice of family law, and Ms. McKim is a frequent speaker for State Bar continuing legal education programs on various family law issues. She is also a member of Collaborative Divorce Texas and believes the best solutions for families in transition are found by educating, empowering, and encouraging parties to customize agreements that lead to the best possible result for the modified family unit.

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Address: 2112 Indiana Ave, Lubbock, TX 79410

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Carrissa A Cleavinger Attorney

Divorce
She received her certification in Family Law from the Texas Board of Legal Specialization in 2007. Her diverse family law practice includes extensive experience with complex property situations, high net-worth estates, children’s issues, foreign and domestic adoptions, and grandparent interventions. Ms. McKim serves on the State Bar of Texas Family Law Section Council and currently fills the role of Secretary. The section seeks to promote professionalism, education, and excellence in the practice of family law, and Ms. McKim is a frequent speaker for State Bar continuing legal education programs on various family law issues. She is also a member of Collaborative Divorce Texas and believes the best solutions for families in transition are found by educating, empowering, and encouraging parties to customize agreements that lead to the best possible result for the modified family unit.
Child Support
Adoption
Paternity
Guardianship
The Field, Manning, Hawthorne & Aycock team includes six seasoned trial attorneys who represent clients in all types of disputes related to oil and gas leases, joint operating agreements and salt water disposal agreements. In addition, we frequently represent clients in cases in which oil and gas constitutes a significant asset of our client’s estate such as divorce, commercial litigation, probate, guardianship and trust litigation, fiduciary litigation and co-tenant disputes between mineral and or surface owners.
Spousal Support

Criminal Defense
Wrongful Death
Through arrangements with insurance carriers, large and small, Field, Manning, Stone, Hawthorne & Aycock, P.C., has represented hundreds of clients in a wide variety of legal matters, ranging from the defense of slip and fall claims to wrongful death actions. From beginning to end, our attorneys and paralegals will work with your adjusters to evaluate claims properly, arrive at case management strategies and aggressively defend insured parties in state court and/or before administrative agencies.

Business and Corporate Law

Mergers and Acquisitions
Clients of Mr. Aycock consist of banks, factoring and leasing companies, architecture and engineering firms, general contractors, insurance companies, trust departments, real estate investors and property managers, automobile dealerships as well as individuals. His bankruptcy practice involves both creditor's rights and the reorganization of business entities and farmers in Chapters 11 and 12 of the United States Bankruptcy Code. He has assisted clients with issues such as tax litigation, professional malpractice litigation and mergers and acquisitions of business entities.
Business Disputes
Pat aids her clients--which include families, small business owners, to Fortune 500 companies –in managing, prosecuting, and ultimately defending claims involving surface rights, royalty owner litigation, environmental claims, operations disputes, lease and contract disputes and breaches, and condemnation actions. She also coordinates serious incident/OSHA response investigations for her clients and, if needed, civil defense. While she enjoys being first chair, Pat also has managed legal teams taking complex cases through trial and appeal. In addition to serving her clients, Pat has, since 1997, also served as a court-appointed or party-selected mediator.
Business Transactions
Another key segment of Ms. Cleavinger’s practice is dedicated to advising and assisting clients with business transactions including formation of corporations, limited liability companies, limited partnerships, professional corporations and professional associations and representing clients in negotiating business acquisition contracts and other business-related contracts.
Limited Liability Companies
In our representation of public and private companies, our attorneys routinely advise clients regarding entity formation and governance. In assisting clients with the formation of their entities, our attorneys provide advice on the choice of entity, including an in-depth analysis of corporations, limited liability companies, partnerships, public charities, and private foundations. In addition, our attorneys draft documents in connection with the formation of such entities as well as the governance thereof.

Employment Contract
Field, Manning, Stone, Hawthorne & Aycock, P.C., offers a wide-variety of expertise in drafting, reviewing and negotiating contracts, including, real estate contracts, oil and gas leases, wind energy leases, farming, grazing and hunting leases, franchise agreements, employment agreements, confidentiality agreements, buy-sell agreements, management agreements, and loan agreements.

Real Estate Litigation
Mr. Wade practices primarily in the areas of commercial litigation and creditors rights. The majority of his time is spent representing financial institutions, credit providers, businesses and individuals in contested litigation matters. In addition, each year Mr. Wade represents clients in real estate litigation, as well as estate and trust disputes. Mr. Wade represents clients in federal court, bankruptcy court, and state courts throughout Texas and New Mexico.
Premises Liability
We are equipped to operate within the reporting, billing and audit guidelines of the vast majority of insurance carriers. Field, Manning, Stone, Hawthorne & Aycock, P.C., has represented parties in any number of areas, including: auto, errors & omissions, general liability, premises liability, products liability, trucking, wrongful death claims and design professional liability.
Construction Litigation
Bill was Of Counsel at Field, Manning, Stone, Hawthorne and Aycock, P.C. where he specialized in general civil litigation, construction law and insurance defense law. He was Board Certified in Civil Trial Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization in 1988. Bill was a member of the Defense Research Institute, a life Fellow of the Texas Bar Association and served on the board for the Texas Association of Defense Counsel. Since 1990 Bill maintained a peer review rating of “A V” with Martindale-Hubble. Bill was a mentor and friend to all, always lending an ear and, if needed, advice. Bill was a cherished part of Field, Manning, Stone, Hawthorne & Aycock, P.C. and is greatly missed.
Real Estate Transactions
The transactional attorneys routinely assist clients with complex real estate transactions. In advising our clients with these real estate transactions, our attorneys have assisted in the development, construction, leasing, financing, and acquisition of real estate, including single-family homes, farms and ranches, large commercial projects, and dairies. Our attorneys have also advised real estate clients with respect to 1031 exchanges and drafted all documents related to such 1031 exchange.
Eminent Domain
“Clashes of Rights in Eminent Domain,” presented at the State Bar of Texas Advanced Civil Trial Course, San Antonio, Dallas, and Houston, Texas, 2011
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Personal Injury
J. Paul Manning is a seventh generation Texan with deep roots all over Texas. Over the past 25 years, J. Paul Manning has represented numerous individuals and entities in complex commercial and probate litigation, inclusive of employment, real estate, construction, banking, and fiduciary litigation, as well as personal injury matters. J. Paul has tried in excess of 65 cases to judgment, the majority of which were tried to a jury. He has litigated in State and Federal Courts in Nevada, New Mexico, Arkansas and Texas and his creative work has led to many favorable judgments and/or dismissals. He has also framed, briefed and/or argued several successful appeals in Texas Appellate Courts.
Medical Malpractice
Medicaid Planning
Field, Manning, Stone, Hawthorne & Aycock, P.C., is a full service probate and estate planning law firm. We provide solutions for our clients' estate planning needs, from the simple will to the most intricate tax planning matter. Solutions are customized to each of our client's goals. We utilize various techniques to achieve our client's objectives including wills, trust agreements, business succession planning, tax planning, insurance planning, charitable gift planning, lifetime transfers of assets, Medicaid planning as well as planning for incapacity. The focus is and always has been on the individual client.

Trusts and Estates

Estate Planning
We work closely with our tax attorneys to insure that our clients’ transactions are structured to avoid adverse tax consequences when the law allows. We draw on over 80 years of collective experience in assisting the mineral owner who is faced with the daunting prospect of negotiating an oil and gas lease with a big oil company or an experienced landman. We gather as much information from our clients as possible so that the resulting lease is customized according to each client’s specific needs. Our philosophy is that negotiating an excellent bonus and royalty is only the beginning of our job. We are dedicated to negotiating terms that will best serve our clients’ goals of maximizing income from their mineral and surface interests while preserving those interests for the next generation. In accomplishing this task, we utilize not only those attorneys who focus on oil and gas, but those tax attorneys, attorneys with experience in the formation of business entities and our estate planning specialists.
Wills
Mr. Field’s practice centers on wills and trusts, business structuring, family limited partnerships, advanced asset transfer techniques, real estate and probate. He advises mainly individuals in complicated business ventures including project acquisition and disposition and regularly counsels clients engaged in the operation or lease of various types of real estate projects, including oil and gas. Mr. Field's probate practice involves representing executors in the administration of substantial and complex estates and trusts as well as consulting with beneficiaries on how to protect their interests in estates and trusts.
Trusts
Ms. Miller has extensive experience in the areas of trust and financial accounting, federal and state taxation, trust administration, retirement plans and investments, enabling Ms. Miller to easily correlate these concepts with the legal work she prepares for firm clients. Since joining the firm in Year 2001, Ms. Miller primarily works for clients in analyzing and implementing plans to meet their estate planning needs, which may range from the preparation of simple wills and related documents to the development of complex estate plans utilizing a variety of tools, including trusts and business entities. Based on the client’s specific situation, Ms. Miller evaluates and makes recommendations to implement the client’s wishes as to the disposition of the client’s property and the management of the client’s legal matters during life and at death, to provide asset protection and to minimize income and transfer taxes. Ms. Miller maintains her CPA license and is qualified to prepare estate and gift tax returns as needed in the context of this planning.
Power of Attorney
Her estate planning practice includes the preparation of trusts, wills, durable powers of attorney, advance health care directives, and related estate planning documents. In addition, she represents trustees and executors in all aspects of trust and probate administration.
Probate
Mr. Hawthorne is Board Certified in Tax Law and Estate Planning & Probate Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization. He is also a licensed Certified Public Accountant (CPA) by the Texas Board of Public Accountancy.

Bankruptcy
Panelist discussing Chapter 12 in the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005 at the Twenty-First Annual Farm, Ranch and Agri-Business Bankruptcy Institute held September 15-16, 2005
Tax Law
Field, Manning, Stone, Hawthorne & Aycock, P.C., represents clients with respect to federal, state and local tax matters, from advance planning with respect to such matters to litigating disputes regarding such matters with applicable governing authorities. Our attorneys confer with each client, the client's accountant and other professionals as needed to not only develop an effective plan uniquely situated to meet the needs of the client, but also to implement the plan developed. In developing and implementing each client's plan in these areas, our attorneys utilize the extensive experience collectively held by the firm, as well as resources available to the firm's attorneys through their continuing participation in related educational programs and self-study opportunities.

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