Winston-Salem Legal Issues Blog
What is the Difference in Refusing a Breath Test on the Side of the Road vs Refusing a Breath or Blood Test at the Station After Arrest
Being under investigation for Driving While Impaired in North Carolina is not only serious but a nerve-wracking time as well. It is important for you to know and understand your rights while this is occurring. Knowing and understanding your rights can give you the...
7 steps to prepare for your divorce
When people get married, they try to forget for a bit how common divorce is for couples in the United States. Yet while the divorce rate has dropped over the last several years, still in 2018, more than 780,000 married couples called it quits. Many divorcing couples...
DACA recipient information not properly protected
The United States is a nation that was essentially built on immigration. It was immigrants first from countries in Western Europe that established the republic in the eighteenth century. Through the first part of the 1900s, the wave of immigration from Italy, Ireland...
What are some child support facts to consider?
Divorce is a complicated event, worse; it is more emotional when you have children. It is up to the court to decide who has to contribute the most financially to the raising of the child. When a judge calculates the child support responsibilities, there are a number...
How is domestic violence defined in North Carolina?
How is domestic violence defined in North Carolina? Most family relationships in the United States do not involve any threat of domestic violence under normal circumstances. However, when family and close relatives have to stay inside together for long periods of...
Leaving Children at Home Alone: Child Abuse?
Leaving Children at Home Alone: Child Abuse? — Criminal Law attorney, Harold Eustache discusses these issue in his "For the Record" video. Scenario: School is out and a parent is at home with the two children, ages eight and eleven. This parent receives a call from...
How does the court decide child custody?
There are many misconceptions and misunderstandings about how a court decides child custody. To begin with, the court almost always prefers that you and the other parent come to an agreement about custody on your own outside the court. In fact, according to the North...
Will you go to jail or prison after facing criminal charges?
If you stand accused of a crime, you likely have many concerns on your mind. Among those concerns may be what the penalties for a conviction will look like and how they will affect your future. In particular, you may wonder whether you will end up spending time behind...
What are North Carolina’s self-defense laws?
Though self-defense laws vary from state to state, the goal of each is to establish circumstances under which a person may defend him or herself through force. In some states, a person must retreat before using deadly force. In the majority, however, the laws...
What is safecracking?
Often when a crime occurs, it involves multiple potential criminal charges. A good example is when a person breaks into a business and steals a safe that he or she then later breaks open. In this scenario, not only would the person face charges for breaking and...
