Impartiality in the Criminal Justice System
ne of the guiding principals of our legal system is impartiality. It is also a value derived from all the world’s great religions. No matter how great a personality, or how humble; no matter how rich and famous and no matter how unknown and poor …
Divorce-Cleaning Out the Bank Accounts
Back in the good ol’ days. . .a party who decided to leave his or her spouse typically cleaned out the house, the cookie jar stash and all the bank accounts and changed the names on all the property and accounts to ace the other …
Relocating With Children
A very problematic situation has arisen frequently since the economy took a major dive. . . relocating with children for economic (or any other) reason. As we are all aware, Montana’s unemployment rate varied at one point in the 2008-2010 recession from above 9 to …
Divorce-Financial Disclosure
Many Montana family law attorneys have their clients fill out a financial disclosure form early on in the proceedings to give to the other side–why is that? Doesn’t your attorney have to help you keep as much of your assets as possible? Then why do …
What’s a Settlement Conference?
A settlement conference, here in Montana, is an informal “mediation.” I put the word mediation in quotes because it might carry more technical overtones than I mean. Boiled down, a settlement conference is a meeting between parties in a dispute to try to settle a …
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