There are three different burdens that people have to face to remove a child from their parent’s home or Indian custodians’ home.
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A settlement is a formal agreement that ends an argument or dispute.
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You won’t find yourself in court where the judge is going to penalize you for a prescription medication prescribed by a doctor.
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Default is the failure to repay a debt, including interest or principal, on a loan or security.
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In civil actions, parties use the pre-trial discovery process to gather information in preparation for trial.
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In the state of Oklahoma, unless you’re talking to your attorney, everything you say on a jail call is recorded.
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There’s a lot of different rules and regulations to how you have to file service on people, set dates, things of that nature.
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The important thing to remember is, every custody matter is different, additionally, there’s a certain standard you have to meet in court.
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Well, a lot of times, especially if it’s for trial, there’s going to end up being a dismissal of whatever the charges are.
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Polygraphs are just another tool law enforcement can use. They can use it to start kind of maybe try to poke holes in your story.
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Let’s say you have a 10-year sentence, 10 years, the amount of time you’re on probation. Two years of that is supervised.
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Sometimes a parents will run out and get a protective order against the other parent and get the court to put the children on that PO.
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If your attorney would have a jurisdictional argument, and that happens, you agree to something as simple as a continuance.
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In the state of Oklahoma, if you don’t pay your child support, you have more than just a couple of days in jail to worry about.
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Judges are looking for, in cases where there’s an alleged victim, identity, whether or not the victim’s been identified.
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According to the Tahlequah Attorney, “Preliminary hearing would be to see if the child could be certified as an adult.”
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A preliminary hearing is something you don’t want to go into on your own. You want an attorney there with you.
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If you’re looking at guardianships or deprived cases or anything like that, you can file a motion to transfer your case to tribal court.
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The general standard practice on that is that the mother is going to have custody without an actual custody order.
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A stay is when a court puts things on hold when they pause all proceedings involving either a certain case or a certain type of topic.
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If you don’t want your kids at the stand and have them have to testify in open court with attorneys badgering them. What do you do?
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f you get a protective order placed on you, you cannot call. You cannot show up. You cannot try to have contact with that person.
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Assault and battery with a deadly weapon, depending on the type of situation because it could be two to life or it could just be 0 to life.
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An attorney can help you whenever you’re drafting statements or your own personal injury type of statements there for law enforcement.
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Under ICWA, when you remove a child from their parent’s home, you have to follow a certain set of guidelines.
