Rutherford & Bidwell Law Office

Rutherford & Bidwell Law Office is a lawyer practice in Marshalltown, Iowa. Bradley J. Rutherford and Eric R. Bidwell work together as Iowa general practice lawyers with more than 60 years of combined experience, representing individuals, families, commercial clients, and investors. Their work covers taxation, agricultural law, real estate, and corporate law, along with estate planning, asset protection, and probate administration throughout central Iowa. The office holds a 5.00 rating from four customer reviews.

The practice handles a full range of real estate matters, including purchase and sale transactions, title and survey work, foreclosures, property tax appeals, and litigation involving boundary disputes and other real estate disputes. In agricultural law, the lawyers assist with the buying, selling, and leasing of farms and counsel clients on USDA programs. Eric Bidwell holds a degree in agricultural studies from Iowa State and comes from a family farm background, and he works as a farmer as well as a lawyer. The firm has provided legal representation in agricultural law matters for over 30 years.

Estate planning services include wills, powers of attorney, revocable and irrevocable trusts, income assignment trusts, and special needs trusts, as well as healthcare powers of attorney, living wills, guardianships, and conservatorships. The lawyers routinely create and administer limited liability companies, partnerships, and corporations, and they represent clients in all matters concerning taxation, preparing tax returns, handling property tax disputes, and addressing state and federal tax issues. They serve clients in Benton, Black Hawk, Boone, Grundy, Hardin, Iowa, Jasper, Johnson, Lynn, Marion, Marshall, Polk, Story, Tama, and Warren counties.

The office sits on South 1st Avenue, about a tenth of a mile from the Marshall County Courthouse and a similar distance from East Main Street and South Center Street. The Marshall County Historical Museum and Susie Sower Park are both within roughly a fifth of a mile, as is the Weatherbee School Museum.

Rutherford & Bidwell's rating reflects the regard of the clients who have reviewed the firm, and its decades of agricultural law experience and broad general practice serve Marshalltown and the surrounding central Iowa counties.