The Chickasaw Nation was never disestablished just like McGirt decided that the Muscogee Creek Nation was never disestablished.
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State argues the clear language of both statute and case law, federal and state courts have concurrent jurisdiction over non-Indians.
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The Muskogee Creek Nation was never disestablished and a good portion of Northeast Oklahoma is still reservation territory.
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McGirt case dealt with the boundaries of the Muskogee Creek nation and how it was never disestablished, therefore it’s still tribal land.
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So first off, there are multiple ways to do a name change in Oklahoma but most of them are very specific to your circumstances.
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At the end of the day, their duty is to their insured as well as their insurance company is limiting their exposure.
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So for anybody who is Native American, Indian, who has been charged or convicted, or has a pending case in any of those territories of historic boundaries of the Chickasaw Nation, they may be subject to dismissal.
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The United States Supreme Court decision from July 9th of 2020 ruled that Muskogee Creek Tribal Reservation was never disestablished.
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Can a mother file to change her child’s name to the name of stepfather in Oklahoma? Tulsa attorney James Wirth has that answer.
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First off, you’re not required to have a lawyer. If you’re going to get divorced, you are required to go to court to go through the process.
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Each divorce, the party is responsible for drafting their own pleadings and making sure that they comply with Oklahoma law.
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Unlike a common law marriage where you can enter it outside of court, there’s no such thing as a common-law divorce.
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It is determined based on primarily the parties’ incomes and the number of kids involved, with a few other factors that go into that as well.
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If you are the father filing, establish yourself as the father, get parental rights and seek child support from the mother. If you’re the mother, then you’re filing to establish that the father is the legal father, biological father, and should be paying child support.
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Generally speaking, when you have joint custody, it means that you have a joint legal say in the big decisions for the child.
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It’s primarily what school’s the child going to attend. That’s the first one. The second one is summer camps, church camps, things like that.
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The term primary custody was not located anywhere in Oklahoma statute, was not cited in any case law. But typically, it was used in order to designate for two particular purposes. One, sometimes you’ve got two parents going through a divorce or through a custody battle. And one party as part of negotiations wants to be designated the primary just to have that title.
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Standard visitation generally means that the non-custodial parent or the secondary custodial parent has every other weekend and alternating holidays. And that every other weekend is typically from Friday after school and then returning sometime Sunday evening every other weekend. And that’s the typical standard visitation, but it’s important to note that many people don’t call that standard visitation.
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Extended standard visitation, that means instead of being from Friday after school to Sunday evening every other weekend, it is from Friday after school, all the way till Monday back to school every other weekend and that’s the extended part. Instead of returning the child on Sunday evening, you returned the child on Monday morning by taking the child to school.
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The two most common 50/50 schedules are going to be a week on/week off and the 2-2-3 schedule.
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In Oklahoma, the 2-2-3 schedule is a 50/50 plan, meaning that each parent gets an equal amount of time with the kids.
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To begin with guardianships by their nature are temporary. They are never meant to be permanent. Permanent guardianship, that’s called adoption.
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Sole Custody means that that person has the legal authority to make the big decisions for that child or those children.
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