Betsy Walits

Betsy taught Business Law, Employment Law, Human Resources, Hospitality and related courses for 6 years at Purdue. Formerly, she was a tenured faculty member at Niagara University, in Niagara Falls NY, and received her Law Degree at SUNY Buffalo while teaching there. Betsy has been an Indiana Attorney since 2006, and is the former Executive Director of the Lake County Bar Association, and among other things was in charge of their referral network. Betsy has conducted academic research and has been a featured speaker all across North America speaking on legal and nonlegal subjects.

Cornell University

other (2012) | Professional Studied Hotel Admin

1979 - 1981

Hotel Restaurant Administration

State University of New York - Buffalo

J.D. (1998) | Juries Doctorate

1994 - 1998

College of the Holy Cross

B.A. | Psychology

1975 - 1979

Activities: Varsity Tennis Internship Bergson Restaurants

Sole Practitioner

Law Office of Betsy Walits, LLC

2008 - Current

Located across Lincolnway from Porter Hospital's Parking Garage. By appointment.

Teacher of the Year

Purdue University

2004

Indiana State Bar

Member

Current

Women Lawyers Association

member

2006 - Current

Lake County Bar Association

Executive Director

2007 - 2009

Indiana

• Free Consultation
  Depending on area of legal services needed, phone consultations are free.
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• Rates, Retainers and Additional Information
  Rates are 200 per hour. Advanced Deposits start at 1000, depending upon complexity of case.

Arbitration & Mediation

Business Arbitration, Consumer Arbitration, Family Arbitration

Divorce

Collaborative Law, Contested Divorce, Military Divorce, Property Division, Same Sex Divorce, Spousal Support & Alimony, Uncontested Divorce

Business Law

Business Contracts, Business Dissolution, Business Finance, Business Formation, Business Litigation, Franchising, Mergers & Acquisitions, Partnership & Shareholder Disputes

Estate Planning

Guardianship & Conservatorship Estate Administration, Health Care Directives, Trusts, Wills

Family Law

Adoption, Child Custody, Child Support, Father's Rights, Guardianship & Conservatorship, Paternity, Prenups & Marital Agreements, Restraining Orders, Same Sex Family Law

• General Civil
• Social Security

Q. Any way to force the ex husband to assume the mortgage on the house he bought me out of in the divorce? He is refusing.

January 23, 2020

A: Your redress is through the court that ordered your divorce. Your ex has violated the court order. You will file a Rule To Show Cause, and because he has violated the order you might be able to get an attorney to represent you to get an order demanding he pay your fees. If you don’t want to hire an Atty or can’t, go to the court clerk and ask if they have a form. Or check on www.in.gov.

Q. what does waiting on ALJ for draft instructions mean

April 18, 2019

A: I don’t know where you are getting the language from but the ALJ is the Administrative Law Judge. So it’s in the pipeline waiting for the Judge to write something,

Q. Divorced 5 years ago. Husband awarded house in decree with no time limit to refinance. Still in both our names.

December 6, 2018

A: You would file contempt charges against him if your order states he needs to take the house out of your name. Sounds like he has bad credit now so you’d have to ask the Judge to order the sale of the house.