Any party can file for child support. It could be the mom that’s got the kids. It could be the dad that’s got the kids. You can do it as part of a divorce.
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A lot of the time people don’t want to come across as whiners. They don’t want to be seen as complaining about every little thing that’s going on, but in the case of a motor vehicle collision, it could be very beneficial to fully express to your doctors everything that’s going on with you.
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In practice, if you did pay extra and you were very careful to document on the check and elsewhere that it’s for this specific child support in the future, you might get credit for that, but it’s not worth the trouble, because you may have to fight to get future credit for it, because the system is going to want to assume that it is a gift.
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MedPay coverage is medical payments coverage. It’s an additional type of insurance that you can get added to your policy that will help cover your medical bills in the incident of a car wreck.
If the party has an income that goes up to a certain level, the child support gets up to a certain level, that should be enough.
I had a client who was visiting an apartment complex, and one of the tenant’s dogs better on the arm. Now, the dog in question had a pretty serious past. It had attacked several of the other tenants, as well as a couple of other animals, and the landlord who ran the unit was aware of this. They knew of the dog’s history, and yet they still allowed the tenant to keep the dog on the premises. Now, by doing that, they have potentially opened themselves up to being liable for the injuries to the person as well, and in that particular case, we were able to help get our client compensation for her injuries at the apartment complex.
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Can you get compensation for being the victim of a dog bite? Certified paralegal, Christopher Stevens answers that question.
Can You Get Compensation From Being the Victim of a Dog Bite? Read Post »
First off, violent offenses, which means that they are on a list of violent offenses listed by statute, those crimes, they’re not affected by State Question 805 at all.
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If you are a registered victim with the Department of Corrections, you are entitled to notice if your perpetrator files a request for sentence modification based on State Question 805.
State Question 805: What About The Victims? (Part 6) Read Post »
 Does Oklahoma State Question 805 have a retroactive application? I’m Tulsa criminal defense attorney James Wirth. Does it apply retroactively, and the answer is yes, it does.
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First off violent crime does not mean what the common-sense definition of violent crime might be or what the Webster’s dictionary violent crime definition might be. When it comes to the law, definitions are what the statute says it is. And even if it’s nonsensical, that’s what the definition is.
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Oklahoma has the habitual offender statute and that deals with general enhancement and then also many crimes also have a specific enhancement.
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In Oklahoma, you need to get 8% of the voting population to sign off on your initiative petition if you want to introduce it to be a new law.
State Question 805: Why Is It a Constitutional Amendment? (Part 2) Read Post »
Oklahoma locks up 655 people for every 100,000, which makes Oklahoma the number one nation in the world for lock-ups.
How do you read a motor vehicle collision report in the state of Oklahoma? Hey everybody, Christopher Stevens here, a certified paralegal with the Wirth Law Office in Tulsa, Oklahoma working in personal injury law alongside a Tulsa personal injury attorney. I am going to show you how to read a motor vehicle collision report in the state of Oklahoma.
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McGirt and the right to vote. I’m Oklahoma criminal attorney James Wirth, and I’m talking about how the McGirt decision may affect people’s rights to vote.
What is Oklahoma State Question 805? State Question 805 would forbid a person’s previous non-violent felony convictions from being used against them to increase the person’s sentence. Hon. (Ret.) Ken Adair spent nine years as a district judge in Oklahoma. He believes the reform that SQ 805 brings is long overdue.
Wirth Law Office's own Retired Judge Ken Adair is reviewee about State Question 805 Read Post »
Without the police there, there’s no ref calling balls strikes, anything like that. It was kind of he said, she said scenario.
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Election laws are governed by state law. It does not necessarily matter where your conviction is, it’s where you’re planning to register to vote. In Oklahoma, the law is different than some states.
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Most of the time, you’re probably not going to get too many people to stop. It’s one of the unfortunate realities nowadays. But if you are able to get someone who is stopping at the scene, checking to see if people are all right, just ask them, “Hey, would you mind if I get a brief statement from you?”
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Oklahoma attorney, James Wirth discusses the municipalities’ response to the class action lawsuit under McGirt.
What is the state’s response to the class-action lawsuit, seeking fines and costs back to defendants who were prosecuted improperly in state court in the Muscogee (Creek) Nation? Tulsa criminal attorney James Wirth has that answer.
