by design | Feb 12, 2024 | Columnist, McKeehan
What is Split Confinement? By Jedidiah McKeehan If you are charged with a crime, and you are considering pleading guilty, one of the big questions that you will want answered is how you will have to serve your sentence. Your sentence is your period of punishment for...
by design | Jan 8, 2024 | Columnist, McKeehan
If You Reconcile with Your Spouse, You Can Expunge the Divorce Filings By Jedidiah McKeehan When a divorce is filed in Tennessee, even if it is an agreed divorce, the divorce is not finalized and completed right away. Tennessee law requires a “cooling down” period to...
by design | Jan 2, 2024 | Columnist, McKeehan
Laws Regarding Jails and Prisons By Jedidiah McKeehan If you read through Tennessee law, there are same fairly interesting laws regarding jails and prisons that are still in place. Jail is generally the place where inmates are held who are awaiting trial or are...
by design | Dec 11, 2023 | Columnist, McKeehan
It is a Crime to Possess Brass Knuckles By Jedidiah McKeehan We have all seen the movie where the good guy is about to enter into an epic fist fight with the bad guy. As the two of them stare each other down, we watch the bad guy put on a set of brass knuckles so he...
by design | Dec 4, 2023 | Columnist, McKeehan
When the Cops Tell You It’s a ‘Civil Matter’ that Means They Are Not Going to Help You By Jedidiah McKeehan From time to time I have individuals call me and recount to me a story about trying to obtain their kids from their ex-spouse, or trying to have someone...
by design | Nov 28, 2023 | Columnist, McKeehan
Does Your Child’s Lemonade Stand Need a Permit? By Jedidiah McKeehan How many of us have this quaint image in our heads of the classic American neighborhood? People mowing their lawns, kids on their bicycles, cars being washed, and a lemonade stand being run by a...