Butler County
attorneys who
answer the phone.

Most people don't call a lawyer because something interesting happened. They call because a parent died, a marriage ended, a police officer handed them a citation, or a closing is three days away and the title work came back with a problem. What they want is a clear explanation of where they stand and someone who will handle it.

That is the practice we've built. Singer, McCausland, Ball & Schaefer Co., LPA is an established general-practice firm with offices on South Breiel Boulevard in Middletown and East Elm Street in Monroe. We handle estate planning, probate and estate administration, family law and divorce, criminal defense and OVI, real estate and business law — and through Safe Harbor Title Agency we close real estate transactions with an attorney involved from the title search forward.

Why one firm for all of it matters more than it sounds

Legal problems don't arrive sorted by practice area. A divorce is also a real estate problem and a retirement account problem. A death in the family is a probate matter, a deed problem and often a business succession question. A domestic violence charge is a criminal case that will be read closely by the judge deciding custody. When those pieces live in one office, they get handled as one situation instead of three separate files that never talk to each other.

We know these courthouses

Local practice is not a marketing line. It means knowing which magistrate hears pretrials on which day, how the Butler County Probate Court wants an inventory presented, which prosecutors will discuss a reduction and which will not, how long a contested custody case realistically takes to reach a hearing in Hamilton, and what the Butler County Recorder will reject a deed for. That knowledge saves clients real money because it keeps cases from taking wrong turns.

Plain talk about cost

We quote flat fees where the work is predictable — most estate plans, LLC formations, simple dissolutions, uncontested probate administrations, deed work and closings. Litigated matters are billed hourly against a retainer, and we tell you at the outset what is likely to drive the total. You will not get a surprise invoice from this office.

Who we serve

Clients come to us from Middletown, Monroe, Trenton, Franklin, Hamilton, Fairfield, Liberty Township, West Chester, Oxford, Ross Township, Madison Township, Lemon Township, Seven Mile, New Miami, Springboro, Carlisle, Lebanon, Germantown, Camden and Eaton, and from across Butler, Warren, Preble, Montgomery and Hamilton Counties. If your matter is filed somewhere else in southwestern Ohio, call anyway — we will either handle it or point you to someone who should.