A topic Ciyou & Dixon, P.C. has blogged about before is the new emancipation statute effective July 1, 2012, the new child support statute inIndianagoes into effect. However, there has been a recent case decided by the Indiana Court of Appeals which gives into how the Indiana Court of Appeals …
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The American court system is one filled with deadlines: deadlines for discovery to find out important information to proceed with a case to trial, deadlines for filings of numerous types, and to begin with, deadlines for initiating a lawsuit. There are numerous rules in the court system regarding statutes of …
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At Ciyou & Dixon, P.C., we have sometimes been asked by clients and other attorneys about firearms seized by police that are not forfeited as apart of a criminal proceeding. We have frequently shared the position we believe strikes the right balance between public safety and a citizen’s property. This …
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At Ciyou & Dixon, P.C., we frequently receive questions from our clients and the general public about Indiana’s self-defense laws, given our practice area covering firearms law. A number of legal concepts applicable to the use of deadly force are well developed. This blog post starts with these. First, Indiana’s …
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The penal law for the “property” exception (where a License was not required to lawfully carry a handgun) was not well defined before SB 506 was enacted. The statute merely set out that a License was not required to carry “on the person’s property.” Very few reported appellate cases addressed …
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This question is one that has played itself time and again through US history and in every state.  The legal concept of preemption may apply to any matter. In basic form, it asks the question of who should decide a matter — the State or the local government. Many years …
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