Hiring a qualified attorney is no small undertaking when considering dissolution or divorce. The decisions you make during this stage will impact the rest of your life. Securing the best legal representation can be confusing if you do not know what qualities to look for...
You might hear people use the terms estate planning and probate interchangeably, but that is not accurate. While they are both related, they represent different legal processes. Estate planning and probate will likely be relevant to you in the future, if not now. This is...
A guardian is someone other than a parent that a court appoints to care for a ward, whether a minor child or an adult with a physical or mental debilitation. Although probate courts exercise due diligence in appointing guardians, some individuals might not be happy...
If you have a younger sibling and your parents pass away or cannot adequately care for them, you may consider stepping in to provide guardianship. If you are over 18, you might be able to provide a stable home environment and the closeness only another...
Cities have different ways of organizing. In some places, there are aldermen (or alderpeople). In other cities, there are Boards of Supervisors. Cincinnati has a balance between the strong-mayor type of government and the council-manager type of system. Cincinnati’s city council is the main legislative...
A Republican state representative from West Alexandria, Rodney Creech, is introducing legislation in the Ohio House of Representatives that would change the way child custody cases are decided in Ohio. If passed, the law would change courts’ approach to family law in Cincinnati and elsewhere...
In October 2021, the Ohio Supreme Court announced that it would pay the University of Cincinnati $800,000 to create a searchable database of all criminal sentences handed down by Ohio trial judges. The public will eventually be able to enter search queries into this database....
The University of Cincinnati College of Law announced, as of October 2021, a brand new master’s degree program that is being administered entirely online. The Master of Legal Studies program has its first term beginning in January 2022. The university just began accepting applications for...
At the very end of October, 2021, U.S. Attorney General Merrick B. Garland announced that his justice department would restore the Office for Access to Justice as a standalone office. In the justice department’s press release, Merrick said that “There can be no equal justice...
Juvenile detention has become more of a hotly-contested issue in the past few decades. As child advocates have pushed for a reduction in the numbers of incarcerated minors, some states have changed their approaches to corrective measures involving those under the age of 18. In...
