A Look at the Crimes that Disqualify from Receiving Home Detention in Indiana In 2016, the Marion County Department of Corrections gave over 1 Million Dollars to hire additional staff to accommodate a large increase in home detention due to overcrowding. This puts the number of people on some form of home detention to over 3,000 in Indianapolis. This can be a preferable alternative to those who want to finish the remainder of their sentence…
I’ve Been Arrested for a Misdemeanor in Indiana, Now What? For most people, when they are arrested for the first time they have committed a misdemeanor. These are sometimes called “petty” crimes. However, when someone has been arrested for the first time nothing seems petty and the potential penalties for a misdemeanor sound quite scary. Three Classes of Misdemeanors in Indiana Class A Misdemeanor: A Class A misdemeanor carries a penalty that ranges from 0…
I’ve Been Charged with Theft – Now What? Recently we highlighted for you the significant changes that have taken place with respect to felony offenses in Indiana. One change in particular merits special attention as much for its significance to many criminal defendants (and practitioners) as for its effect of making the punishment more proportional to the crime. Prior to the change in the law effective July 1, 2014, the theft statute read as follows:…
Dying Without a Will & the Invocation of Indiana’s Intestacy Laws Discussing death, wills, trusts, and probate issues are some of the most difficult and awkward conversations we have with clients in our office. After all, who wants to discuss things that happen to us at the end of our lives? We are all going to live forever, right? Wrong, obviously (unless you are a vampire — and you might have other issues if that’s…
What to do When Facing Points or Suspensions on Your License: Almost every single person that has driven a motor vehicle has been pulled over at some point by a police officer — whether wrongfully or rightfully, it happens, unfortunately. Nevertheless, what most people don’t realize is that for every moving violation you are convicted of, you accumulate points on your driver’s record. And those records are meticulously maintained by the Indiana Bureau of Motor…
Indiana law has a very broad standard when it comes to deciding child custody. In a nutshell, when custody of a child is at issue the court is to do “what is in the best interest of the child.” So what does that mean? The law starts out by making it clear that there is not a presumption in favor of either parent. In other words, mom or dad has an equal right to the…