Archive for September, 2011
The Dead Sea Scrolls, at least some of them, are now online, thanks to a collaboration between the Israel Museum and Google. So you’re one of the dinosaurs (like I) steadfastly resisting the seemingly inevitable transition from WordPerfect to MS Word. Legal Office Guru is a blog where you can find tutorials, tips and instructions. [ READ MORE ]
Chancellor Edward Fenwick of Kosciusko is one of two chancery judges who preside in the Sixth District (Attala, Carrol, Choctaw, Kemper, Neshoba and Winston). Here is our interview with him. Q: Tell us some of your personal preferences that lawyers from outside your district need to know before they come before you. A: From the [ READ MORE ]
Unlike mere mortals, chancellors have the power to reach back into the past and take action as effectively as if had actually been done back then. It’s called nunc pro tunc — Latin for now for then — and here is how it works: “This Court has stated that ‘[n]unc pro tunc signifies now for [ READ MORE ]
Cell phones in court rooms have given rise to some pretty funny situations. I have seen judges fly into a blind rage at the sound of a ringing cell phone during a trial. And I have seen judges act benignly, at most emitting a resigned sigh to the techno intrusion. The range of reactions is [ READ MORE ]
I talked here before about the Varner case, which holds that a child-support-paying parent (the father in that case) who has a child come to live with him may receive a credit against unpaid child support for that de facto custodial time. In Varner, the mother had court-ordered custody, but the parties made a handshake deal [ READ MORE ]
Today marks the 90th birthday of Meridian attorney Champ Gipson. That is Champ on the left. Champ served in the Army Tank Corps in World War II. He graduated from Cumberland Law School in Birmingham in 1947, and returned to Meridian to practice with his dad. Champ was in general practice for decades, and now spends his days [ READ MORE ]
Judge Frank McKenzie presides in chancery district 19 (Jones and Wayne). Here is an interview with 12 CCDM. Q: Tell us some of your personal preferences that lawyers from outside your district need to know before they come before you. A: Court starts on time. If you are not there when your case is called and have not [ READ MORE ]
I’ve posted before here and here about the renovation of the upstairs court room in the Clarke County Court House in Quitman. The photo to the right shows the court room when the renovation had just begun. You can see the plywood panelling that sheathed the room, as well as the placement of the jury box at that [ READ MORE ]
As I posted here before, the legislature has adopted a procedure to disestablish parentage (paternity) in light of Williams v. Williams, 843 So.2d 720 (Miss. 2003), and its progeny, which hold that a man who is determined by DNA testing not to be the father of a child should not continue to be responsible for [ READ MORE ]
Experts often testify in chancery. They address child custody, business valuations, property appraisals, surveys, tax issues, handwriting, competency, medical and health matters, and many other subjects almost too varied to imagine. MRE 702 allows you to call a qualified witness who has “scientific, technical, or other specialized knowledge” that will assist the chancellor in understanding [ READ MORE ]
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