The Jackson, MS Clarion Ledger reports that “The People’s Law School” will be held tomorrow, February 28, at my alma matter, Mississippi College School of Law. … Please call LaVerne Edney for more details at (601) 948-3101 This is a great opportunity to learn a lot in a short amount of time.
While this blog is to be educational and informative for you, the reader, it is also part of the marketing efforts for my law firm. As such, I'm going to change the name of the blog to Hattiesburg Divorce Lawyer, and I'll change the blog's URL to something similar. This change ...
You've seen it before on TV or in the movies. A judge finds someone in contempt and throws that person in jail. This is the only way that a person in a civil case can wind up in jail, and if you violate a court's order concerning child custody, visitation, etc., you could ...
Hattiesburg is home to Camp Shelby. As such, lawyers here in town often have the opportunity to represent military personnel or their spouses in a divorce. I have previously written about military divorce, but focused on the 20-20-20 Rule. Now I'd like to look more broadly at military retirement benefits in a ...
Today, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its opinion in United States v. Hayes. This decision dealt with a provision of the Gun Control Act of 1968 that makes it a crime for someone who has been convicted of a felony or "a misdemeanor crime of domestic violence" to own a firearm. At issue was ...