On Jun. 26, 2015, the U.S. Supreme Court made same-sex marriage legal throughout the country. The case of Obergefell v. Hodges - now considered a landmark case in civil rights - gave same-sex couples the right to marry and to enjoy the state-bestowed benefits of joint...
Month: April 2018
Terrified to testify? Don’t worry – your lawyer will prepare you
To testify means to bear witness.When you testify, you are a witness to the facts and circumstances of the matter at hand, and you answer questions put to you by your lawyer and your spouse's lawyer. And when you testify, you are asked to speak the truth, under oath,...
You may not believe it, but life does get better after divorce
The short answer is yes - life does get better after divorce.It's no secret that the end of a marriage is a significant stressor in life. Divorce rates up there with imprisonment and death as one of the most stressful experiences, as per the Holmes and Rahe Stress...
The pitfalls of going ‘pro se’ as your own attorney
First the obvious points: Law school is three years of post-graduate education after the four-year college degree. Then there's the bar exam. And there's the matter of experience. This comes only by working "in the trenches," so to speak, representing real people...
Should I tell my lawyer everything? Attorney-client privilege explained
"The attorney-client privilege may well be the pivotal element of the modern American lawyer's professional functions." - Geoffrey C. Hazard, Jr., Law Professor (b. 1929 - d. 2018) This is the attorney-client privilege in a nutshell: The secrets you tell your attorney...