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- Quick to Charge Misdemeanors
Roughly one million felony convictions are filed every year compared to 10 million misdemeanors . As a result, many argue that due process is wholly ignored for defendants accused of a misdemeanors. ...
- Prosecutors Fired For Brady Violations
Two Assistant District Attorneys in Oklahoma were recently fired for allegedly withholding favorable evidence from the defense. The prosecutors' misconduct is known as a Brady Violation. David ...
- Supreme Court Allows Strip Searches
Should police be able to strip search a person? The Supreme Court thinks so. The United States Supreme Court has now paved the way for the utilization of strip searches by law enforcement when any ...
- Missouri child support proceedings
In Missouri, there are two primary ways that a non-married parent can seek to establish child support, judicial and administrative. A judicial action is through the circuit court, and an ...
- No Child Abandonment without Knowledge of Birth
Recent Ruling: Termination of parental rights requires proof of statutory grounds by clear, convincing and cogent evidence, and proof of child’s best interest by a preponderance of the evidence. ...
- Challenging Paternity: statute of limitations
Missouri's paternity disestablishment law, enacted in August 2009, allowed men who have been declared the father of a child by a court or the Division of Family Services to set aside (overturn) ...
- Divorce settlement agreements must be drafted with care
It has become customary in contract of all kinds to include a provision that no representations have been made unless expressly written in the contract and that the terms of the contract cannot be ...
- Family support obligations and bankruptcy
With so many people facing bankruptcy in the current climate, it may be good news to know (depending on which side you are on, of course) that the bankruptcy does not allow a person owing a domestic ...