Legal in Baton Rouge, LA

Field Law LLC

Baton Rouge, LA

Field Law is a Baton Rouge practice led by managing attorney Morgan Field, working exclusively in Louisiana estate law: estate planning, wills, powers of attorney, elder law and Medicaid planning, small business and succession planning, successions, and succession litigation. The firm reports having settled more than five hundred Louisiana estates. That single-state focus matters more here than it would almost anywhere else. Louisiana is the only American state whose civil law descends from the French and Spanish codes rather than English common law, and its forced heirship rules and succession procedure genuinely do not resemble the neighboring states. A plan drafted on general principles can fail in Louisiana in ways that surprise everyone involved. For LGBTQ+ clients that gap widens. The firm states plainly that it welcomes married spouses, unmarried partners, transgender and nonbinary clients, and members of chosen families. Louisiana recognizes no domestic partnership status, so an unmarried partner has no default claim at all and every protection has to be written deliberately. The firm's estate planning covers blended families, unmarried couples and pet trusts as named situations rather than as exceptions to a standard plan. Remote consultations are offered for out-of-state families dealing with Louisiana property, which is a common position to be in and an awkward one to solve from a distance.