by Jedidiah McKeehan | Dec 26, 2017 | Columnist, McKeehan
By Jedidiah McKeehan I see lots of people come to the courthouse who end up with a judgment against them for some reason or another. Maybe they got behind on their credit card payments, maybe they took out a payday loan that they shouldn’t have taken, or maybe they...
by Jedidiah McKeehan | Dec 18, 2017 | Columnist, McKeehan
By Jed McKeehan When two people want to transfer ownership of real property (real property is land, a house, etc.) between them in exchange for money, the document that officially memorializes the transaction is called a deed. A deed will have the description and...
by Jedidiah McKeehan | Dec 11, 2017 | Columnist, McKeehan
By Jedidiah McKeehan There are individuals across this country who do not pay their child support. There are many who do not even try to pay their child support. While that in and of itself is tragic and unfortunate, how do the courts deal with these individuals? ...
by Jedidiah McKeehan | Dec 4, 2017 | Columnist, McKeehan
By Jedidiah McKeehan If you are a landlord and you go to court and get a tenant evicted, you do not actually get to take possession of the property right away. Landlord-tenant cases are heard in general sessions court in Tennessee, and there is a 10 day period in...
by Jedidiah McKeehan | Nov 28, 2017 | Columnist, McKeehan
By Jed McKeehan Say you are involved a car wreck and you are hurt pretty seriously. The driver who caused the wreck is a little old lady who is probably the nicest, sweetest grandma that ever lived. Unfortunately, even though she’s very nice, she caused a wreck that...
by Jedidiah McKeehan | Nov 20, 2017 | Columnist, McKeehan
By Jedidiah McKeehan A deposition is one of the terms you hear quite frequently in relation to legal matters. Depositions are something that take place in a great number of legal cases, but what exactly is a deposition? A deposition is a party (either the person...
