ARLS, led by Senior Attorney Alan S. Levine, is a boutique Florida law firm representing families in high-stakes crisis matters involving addiction, mental health, and incapacity-related court intervention.

Our work is centered on helping families act decisively when a loved one will not seek or accept help voluntarily. While the Marchman Act remains central to our practice, some families also require related legal strategies involving Baker Act issues, Guardianship proceedings, or a coordinated combination of all three.

We provide experienced legal guidance and legal intervention when mental-health crises, involuntary examination, or overlapping addiction and psychiatric issues must be addressed quickly and carefully.

Representation for families who may need authority to protect a loved one whose addiction, mental illness, or incapacity has made sound personal or financial decision-making impossible.

In some of the most serious cases, successful intervention requires more than one legal path. Our firm helps families evaluate whether Marchman Act, Baker Act, Guardianship, or a coordinated strategy is most appropriate.

Families come to ARLS when the situation is serious, urgent, and too important to leave to guesswork.

• Extensive experience in Florida Marchman Act litigation
• Boutique, focused representation in family crisis matters
• Confidential guidance for sensitive and high-profile situations
• Full-service representation from strategy through court proceedings
• Coordinated legal planning when addiction, mental health, and incapacity overlap
• Statewide Florida representation

Many of our clients are parents, spouses, business owners, professionals, and private families seeking experienced legal help during deeply personal emergencies.

These matters often involve more than a petition. They may require strategic timing, careful evidentiary preparation, treatment-facility coordination, hearings, follow-up court involvement, and the judgment to determine when other remedies such as Baker Act intervention or Guardianship should also be considered.

We understand that these cases can affect families socially, professionally, financially, and emotionally. ARLS approaches every matter with discretion, professionalism, and close attorney involvement.

Our role is not simply to explain the process. Our role is to help families take effective legal action when the stakes are too high for mistakes.