Desmond Law Office

About Desmond Law Office

Desmond Law Office is a full-service law firm based in Ridgetown, a small community in the Municipality of Chatham-Kent in southwestern Ontario. Douglas Desmond has run the practice since 1992, and it's mostly a Chatham-Kent-area practice, drawing clients from Essex, Lambton, Elgin and Middlesex counties too, though people from farther afield, including Perth, Wellington, Halton Hills, Oxford, Huron, Grey, Bruce, Simcoe and Muskoka, also find their way to the office.

The firm sticks to three areas: estate planning, real estate and family law. On the estate side, that means wills and powers of attorney, along with Henson trusts for families planning around a disabled beneficiary. Real estate files run from ordinary home purchases to commercial and agricultural deals, cottage transactions and Rondeau Park leases, a mix that fits a region with both farmland and Lake Erie shoreline. In family law, the office takes on separation, custody and property matters, and it also represents parents and grandparents in Children's Aid Society cases. Rather than a set fee schedule, the firm works on general retainers sized to the complexity of the matter.