by design | Nov 28, 2022 | Columnist, McKeehan
May I Have a Moment? By Jedidiah McKeehan When you watch legal tv shows and movies the lawyers are almost always depicted as having incredible ability in the courtroom. They hammer away at the witnesses without a moment’s hesitation. No word is ever mispronounced. If...
by design | Nov 21, 2022 | Columnist, McKeehan
Do You Want to Be a County Historian? By Jedidiah McKeehan How would you like to be the resident historian for your county? There might be an opening! Tennessee Code Annotated section 5-18-101 states, “The legislative body of each county shall appoint some person of...
by design | Nov 14, 2022 | Columnist, McKeehan
By Jedidiah McKeehan There are many movies and TV shows, perhaps the most famous being, “The Hangover,” when someone wakes up in Las Vegas and finds out they got married the night before while in the midst of a drunken stupor. Yikes! Fortunately, there is a law in...
by design | Nov 7, 2022 | Columnist, McKeehan
Suing Someone Because They Forced You to Marry By Jedidiah McKeehan In the US we normally think of arranged marriages as a thing of the past. Likewise, we have all seen enough romantic movies and TV shows that we generally think that people marry each other because...
by design | Oct 31, 2022 | Columnist, McKeehan
A Monetary Judgment You Cannot Collect On By Jedidiah McKeehan “That judgment is not worth the paper it’s written on!” There are certain phrases that all lawyers know and have ready to spout out if the situation is right, and this is one of them. What does this phrase...
by design | Oct 17, 2022 | Columnist, McKeehan
How long is a life sentence? By Jedidiah McKeehan “The Defendant is sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole.” [Gavel slams down] How many times have you heard something like that on a TV show or a movie? How long exactly is a life sentence,...
