by Jedidiah McKeehan | May 14, 2018 | Columnist, McKeehan
By Jed McKeehan If you get involved in a legal proceeding your case will be set to be heard by some type of judge. Your case could be before a small claims (general sessions) judge, a circuit judge, a chancellor, a criminal judge, a federal judge, an appellate judge,...
by Jedidiah McKeehan | Apr 30, 2018 | Columnist, McKeehan
By Jedidiah McKeehan Unfortunately, a phrase that we hear all too often in this day and age is that a married couple is, “separated.” And you may have thought to yourself, “did they go to the courthouse and get some designation, or is this just what it is informally...
by Jedidiah McKeehan | Apr 23, 2018 | Columnist, McKeehan
By Jedidiah McKeehan So, the word “subrogation” is probably a word that you have heard at some point in your life, but you may not be exactly sure what it means. What does it mean, anyway? In the legal context, the word subrogation most often comes in to play in...
by Jedidiah McKeehan | Apr 16, 2018 | Columnist, McKeehan
By Jedidiah McKeehan If you have ever been involved in a legal proceeding, you may have gone in front of a judge at some point and heard the judge “order” that one or both of the parties to the lawsuit do something. Those things that a judge says are what is called...
by Jedidiah McKeehan | Mar 26, 2018 | Columnist, McKeehan
By Jedidiah McKeehan It seems that whenever I am watching a crime drama on TV, the detective and his team are using some fancy DNA test to figure out who the criminal is. Unfortunately, that does not happen really at all in the real world (sorry to burst your...
by Jedidiah McKeehan | Mar 19, 2018 | Columnist, McKeehan
By Jedidiah McKeehan You may have heard of the legal term, “mediation.” What is it? What happens during a mediation? A mediation is an informal process that is used in a large number of lawsuits to try to settle the cases before they go to trial. When a lawsuit has...
