The Seminole nation is one of the five civilized tribes. So the circumstances of that nation and its treaties are very similar to the Muskogee Creek Nation.
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Does the McGirt precedent apply to tribes outside of the five civilized tribes? Tulsa criminal defense attorney James Wirth answers.
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The McGirt v Oklahoma decision from July 9th of 2020 decided the Muscogee Creek Nation historic tribal boundaries were never disestablished.
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One of the primary things you’re going to want to look out for is what was it that contributed to your incident.
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Now I will say in most cases, you’re just kind of out of luck. But I have found a few instances in which clients were able to obtain video of the car wreck that was really able to help out their case. And one of the primary ways that I’ve had clients do this is after the wreck, they kind of looked around the scene to see if any businesses in the area may have had security cameras.
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Wirth Law Office founder, James Wirth, was recently featured in a New York Times article discussing the legal fallout from the popular Tiger King documentary. The article highlights the civil suit filed by the US Department of Justice owners of a Wynnewood animal park. Wirth, who represents the owners at the time, argues that the government’s interpretation of the Animal Welfare Act is too broad. He states, by the government’s contrived standard, anyone who takes a selfie of an endangered species in a zoo is an unlawful exhibitor in violation of federal law.
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After your car wreck, likely the insurance company will give you an offer on your property damage, now whether that’s totaled out, or whether that’s damage to your vehicle.
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You are required to refuse visitation if there’s evidence to substantiate suspected or confirmed child abuse.
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After a car wreck, there is an absolute mountain of paperwork that you could be receiving ranging from insurance companies, medical providers.
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Failing to protect your child can get you in trouble with DPS, have your kids taken away by the state, perhaps by CPS in a deprived child action, or could actually get you criminal felony charges of permitting child abuse.
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After the car wreck, the first thing you’re going to be more concerned with is definitely treating some of those wounds.
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So if you have a court order for visitation and it’s being denied, irrespective of whether you’re paying child support or not because those are independent obligations, so whether you’re paying child support or not, that is contempt of court and you can file a contempt of court action with the court. Set it for an arraignment, if the party is found guilty they can actually be thrown in jail for up to six months for violation of a court order.
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Delve into it a bit more to see what type of coverage you’re actually getting, and while you’re at it, you might ask them how much would it be to add under-insured motorist coverage or med pay coverage to your policy.
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A medical lien is similar to a mechanics lien. A medical lien is attached to your insurance claim, following a motor vehicle collision.
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Under Oklahoma law, it’s completely gender-neutral. What matters who is the custodian, who’s the non-custodian.
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Can they receive alimony in Oklahoma? And similar to child support, the rules that are in place are gender-neutral. It doesn’t matter if you are the man or the woman, the husband or the wife. It has to do with the financial circumstances and what’s happened in the marriage. So yes, under Oklahoma law, men can receive spousal support and alimony. Women can be ordered to pay spousal support and alimony. So that’s what the law says.
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We’ve had the most success with clients who were able to write down everything that they remember about the car wreck as soon as they could after it happened.
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You could be considered a no-fault passenger, meaning that you just happened to be in the car while someone else was the one who was in control of the vehicle and the one that actually caused the wreck.
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Tulsa Child Custody Attorney James Wirth answers, How does one win back custody of a child in Oklahoma?
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A lot of policies allow you to add additional coverage for pets that you keep in your home, just in case they end up hurting someone else.
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The first thing is when you’re going to mediation, if you want it to be successful, you’ve got to be prepared in that you know all of the relevant facts and circumstances. You have your case prepared and presented, you’ve done a discovery. So what that means is, is that if you’re talking about child custody, all the factors that go into that in your best interest, you’ve got all of your evidence together. Any concerns you have about the other parent, you’ve got all the evidence that you present to the judge ready to go.
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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.
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