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To the extent necessary to protect an award of alimony, the court may order any party who is ordered to pay alimony to purchase or maintain a life insurance policy or a bond, or to otherwise secure such alimony award with any other assets which may be suitable for that purpose. For purposes of determining…

Nobody gets married with the intention of getting divorced, but sometimes it is just the right and even necessary thing to do. People evolve and change, and some couples just grow apart, and don’t belong together any longer. A Florida divorce can be complicated, but experienced help is available. Michael Kessler has been helping good…

Ooooh that smell Can’t you smell that smell Ooooh that smell The smell of death surrounds you What a mess… A Florida woman was once arrested on the charge of “nuisance injurious to health” after she allegedly defecated in an elevator at a courthouse in Fort Pierce. Fort Pierce resident Patricia Ann Jamison was identified…

The Truth about Miranda Warnings TV has gotten Miranda wrong for over fifty years. On television, when a police officer makes an arrest and fails to read the arrested person his rights, viewers are led to believe that the arrest is illegal, and the person cannot be prosecuted. This is not even close to being…

South Florida – On Thursday, after 7 years Bartley Joseph Jude Gorman was arrested in Polk County. He is accused of being the driver who crashed his pickup truck into an SUV in Broward County, causing a fatal drowning. Gorman has been on the run since 2011. Why 7 years? “If we had charged him…

I knew this was going to happen. I told everyone who asked me. In late May, Tiger Woods was arrested in Jupiter, Florida, and charged with the crime of Driving While Impaired. As has been widely reported, he had no alcohol in his system at all. Rather, it appeared that he was impaired by a…

Criminal Defense Lawyers have heard it all too often. “Use your common sense,” the prosecutor urges the Jury. What the prosecutor means by that seemingly innocuous phrase is: “I know I have not presented enough evidence for you to convict. Let’s pretend that I did.” That is exactly what a Vero Beach prosecutor did in…

Do I need a lawyer? Can I just represent myself? Charleston Church Shooting Defendant has a fool for a client In 1814 British scholar and writer Henry Kett wrote “A man who is his own lawyer has a fool for a client,” a truism if there ever was one. This was later adopted by the…

The Supreme Court of the United States ruled today that a judge who had a “significant, personal involvement” in a case while in a previous role as a prosecutor must recuse (disqualify) himself from ruling on the case at a later stage. Can I get a “duh” anybody? Here’s the kicker: the vote was 5-3.…

In June, I received a call from my good friend Beth Tibbott, a dynamite young Pittsburgh criminal defense lawyer. Mike, I have been asked to take on a first degree murder case. Will you help me? Of course! Tell me about the case. She did. It seems that one Edward Merritt had been arrested by…