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Anne Wilson Guthrie

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Bankruptcy, Family Law, Juvenile Law, Social Security, Divorce & Family Law

Anne Guthrie is a practicing lawyer in the state of Alabama. She received her J.D. from University of Alabama School of Law in 2000. Anne works at Wil... (more)

R. Hays Webb

Criminal, DUI-DWI, Family Law, Personal Injury
Status:  In Good Standing           

Laura Kristen Segers

Criminal, DUI-DWI, Divorce, Family Law
Status:  In Good Standing           

Mary Turner

Traffic, Family Law, Divorce, Constitutional Law
Status:  In Good Standing           Licensed:  35 Years

Julie Lynn Love

Class Action, Social Security -- Disability, Pharmaceutical Product, Family Law
Status:  In Good Standing           Licensed:  25 Years

John Brasfield

Real Estate, Family Law, Divorce, Criminal
Status:  In Good Standing           Licensed:  28 Years

James Burgess Leonard

Employee Rights, Civil Rights, Litigation, Family Law
Status:  Inactive           Licensed:  37 Years

Laurie Ames Brantley

Commercial Real Estate, Employee Rights, Family Law, Adoption
Status:  In Good Standing           Licensed:  32 Years

Kathryn Osburne Pope

Litigation, Family Law, Business & Trade, Administrative Law
Status:  In Good Standing           Licensed:  17 Years

Stephanie Paige Wheeler Elliott

Family Law, Divorce, Child Custody, Divorce & Family Law
Status:  Inactive           Licensed:  29 Years

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LEGAL TERMS

BRIEF

A document used to submit a legal contention or argument to a court. A brief typically sets out the facts of the case and a party's argument as to why she shoul... (more...)
A document used to submit a legal contention or argument to a court. A brief typically sets out the facts of the case and a party's argument as to why she should prevail. These arguments must be supported by legal authority and precedent, such as statutes, regulations and previous court decisions. Although it is usually possible to submit a brief to a trial court (called a trial brief), briefs are most commonly used as a central part of the appeal process (an appellate brief). But don't be fooled by the name -- briefs are usually anything but brief, as pointed out by writer Franz Kafka, who defined a lawyer as 'a person who writes a 10,000 word decision and calls it a brief.'

CUSTODIAN

A term used by the Uniform Transfers to Minors Act for the person named to manage property left to a child under the terms of that Act. The custodian will manag... (more...)
A term used by the Uniform Transfers to Minors Act for the person named to manage property left to a child under the terms of that Act. The custodian will manage the property if the gift giver dies before the child has reached the age specified by state law -- usually 21. When the child reaches the specified age, he will receive the property and the custodian will have no further role in its management.

CENSUS

An official count of the number of people living in a certain area, such as a district, city, county, state, or nation. The United States Constitution requires ... (more...)
An official count of the number of people living in a certain area, such as a district, city, county, state, or nation. The United States Constitution requires the federal government to perform a national census every ten years. The census includes information about the respondents' sex, age, family, and social and economic status.

CONSOLIDATED OMNIBUS BUDGET RECONCILIATION ACT (COBRA)

A federal law requiring that employers offer employees -- and their spouses and dependents -- continuing insurance coverage if their work hours are cut or they ... (more...)
A federal law requiring that employers offer employees -- and their spouses and dependents -- continuing insurance coverage if their work hours are cut or they lose their job for any reason other than gross misconduct. Courts are still in the process of determining the meaning of gross misconduct, but it's clearly more serious than poor performance or judgment. COBRA also makes an ex-spouse and children eligible to receive group rate health insurance provided by the other ex-spouse's employer for three years following a divorce.

INCOMPATIBILITY

A conflict in personalities that makes married life together impossible. In a number of states, incompatibility is the accepted reason for a no-fault divorce. C... (more...)
A conflict in personalities that makes married life together impossible. In a number of states, incompatibility is the accepted reason for a no-fault divorce. Compare irreconcilable differences; irremediable breakdown.

ADOPTIVE PARENT

A person who completes all the requirements to legally adopt a child who is not his or her biological child. Generally, any single or married adult who is deter... (more...)
A person who completes all the requirements to legally adopt a child who is not his or her biological child. Generally, any single or married adult who is determined to be a 'fit parent' may adopt a child. Some states have special requirements, such as age or residency criteria. An adoptive parent has all the responsibilities of a biological parent.

STIRPES

A term used in wills that refers to descendants of a common ancestor or branch of a family.

JOINT CUSTODY

An arrangement by which parents who do not live together share the upbringing of a child. Joint custody can be joint legal custody (in which both parents have a... (more...)
An arrangement by which parents who do not live together share the upbringing of a child. Joint custody can be joint legal custody (in which both parents have a say in decisions affecting the child) joint physical custody (in which the child spends a significant amount of time with both parents) or, very rarely, both.

MINOR

In most states, any person under 18 years of age. All minors must be under the care of a competent adult (parent or guardian) unless they are 'emancipated'--in ... (more...)
In most states, any person under 18 years of age. All minors must be under the care of a competent adult (parent or guardian) unless they are 'emancipated'--in the military, married or living independently with court permission. Property left to a minor must be handled by an adult until the minor becomes an adult under the laws of the state where he or she lives.

SAMPLE LEGAL CASES

Corwin v. Corwin

... Alabama law requires that interest of 12 percent per year be applied to each installment of past-due child support. ... "Under Alabama law, child-support payment `installments become final judgments as of the date due.' Osborne v. Osborne, 57 Ala.App. ...

Ex parte Thompson

... cases challenging filing fees that poor plaintiffs cannot afford to pay, the object is an order requiring waiver of a fee to open the courthouse door for desired litigation, such as direct appeals or federal habeas petitions in criminal cases, or civil suits asserting family-law rights, eg ...

Ex parte JE

... On May 8, 2006, the district court judge, Judge William D. Russell, Jr., entered an order containing the following findings of fact and conclusions of law: ... So.2d 859, 874 (Ala.Civ.App.2003), and because "the termination of parental rights strikes at the very heart of the family unit, a ...