The Attorneys at Dixon & Moseley, P.C.
Strong, Trial-Ready Advocates Protecting Your Rights
Trials are dynamic events and no two are the same, even on the same or similar issues between the same parties. To have a fair and accurate trial free of most types of evidence that can misdirect a court, there are four key rules of evidence parties and witnesses struggle to follow as sometimes they seem counter-intuitive. These are addressed…
The Short Answer: Don’t Do It! It is easy to see the news story of the day, reality TV, or talk with someone about their court experience and think lying is acceptable and a sign of the times. Good or okay? No. It is not, and every attorney and jurist will tell you the integrity of the system is based…
The legal system is the default mechanism to resolving problems that cannot be worked out through a vast number of other mechanisms, such as through church or family intervention, social pressures, or just walking away. Usually, the cost, unknowns, and stress compound and make this event one of life’s major stressors. Over time we have gathered many valuable insights that…
Trial is a nerve-racking experience for litigants, many have not been in the courtroom before. Indiana’s judges and lawyers want you to have your day in court and the case decided by a neutral fact finder. However, with the pressures of property and children in the balance, litigants do all sorts of little things that can help or hurt their…
With divorce statistics indicating one in two marriages ends in divorce, many people—from those who have heard divorce horror stories to those who have had their own divorces—sometimes contract for terms to divide their estate (assets – liabilities = net marital estate) in the event of a divorce. There are three ways to do so, all with risks and specific…
A key right ensured to every litigant in Indiana’s trial courts is the ability to appeal adverse decisions to the Indiana Court of Appeals or Indiana Supreme Court. This process is not as familiar to the public at large as trial court matters, as there simply are not many appeals from the thousands upon thousands of cases filed in Indiana…
In response to domestic violence, the states have passed various acts to allow an alleged victim to seek almost immediate access to the courts and judges to review petitions for alleged physical and mental health abuse by a person he or she is involved in certain domestic relationships with. Upon reviewing the victim’s petition, the court may (1) deny it,…
There is a general societal view that a bad act by a child is due to lack of life experience and immaturity. Therefore, such should not be a crime and the juvenile treated as a delinquent and limited to state-intervention until he or she is an adult. Nevertheless, because there is some overlap between implications of juvenile delinquency and adult…
To the objective of following the law, keeping guns out of criminals hands, and aiding AFT and other law enforcement officers with preventing or investigating gun crimes, ATF has the ability to do a compliance check (with a cause, such as a firearm sold from a store winding up used in a crime) no more than once a year of…
A common set of questions or concerns with clients or litigants in divorce is why does a divorce take so long (since the statute only says sixty days have to pass), and why can the divorce process become expensive in terms of costs (custody evaluations) and legal fees. At a simple level, a divorce lawyer has had to untangle the…