Jackson Missouri Legal Blog

If you suffer an unfortunate injury while working, chance are you are counting on workers' compensation to see you through the incident. Successful claims provide Missouri workers with benefits such as income replacement and coverage of medical expenses. A notice indicating a claim denial can bring reality crashing down upon you. The following list contains several common reasons for claim denials.

Waiting to report the injury: It is important to report any unusual incident to your superiors immediately. Doing so paves the way for a successful workers' compensation claim if you discover that the incident caused you injury.

Many residents of Missouri think that drug charges do not require a serious approach to criminal defense. Perhaps the tolerance many states now exhibit regarding marijuana causes defendants to disregard a drug possession arrest. Whatever the reason, you need to understand that the penalties for a drug possession conviction are always serious enough to warrant your immediate attention.

You already know that a criminal defense attorney can help if the authorities arrest you for drug possession. However, you might not understand precisely how he or she can help. Working with you to create an effective strategy for defense is the primary goal of these legal professionals. Some options to consider include the following.

• Medicinal use: In 2018, it became legal to possess specific amounts of marijuana for medicinal purposes if a doctor has recommended its use. FindLaw indicates that the allowable limit is up to four ounces per month at this time.
• Unlawful search and seizure: It may be possible to establish this as a sound criminal defense strategy if the police broke the law to search your property.
• Entrapment: Law enforcement personnel are extremely careful to avoid allegations of entrapment. However, it might be worth looking into depending upon the details of your arrest.
• Not your drugs: In some cases, it may be possible for you and your attorney to prove that the drugs in question belonged to another party.

No matter how hard divorcing parents work to focus on their children's well-being, kids will experience stress during and after the break-up. They're likely going to be dividing their time between two households. They may move -- which means changing schools and having to make new friends.

Even if they'll continue to spend the majority of their time in the home they know, no longer having both parents around can be a source of anxiety.

While marijuana is still illegal for recreational use in Missouri, prosecutors in our state's urban areas are increasingly making it a policy not to prosecute people for possessing small amounts of the drug. In the past seven months, prosecutors here in Jackson County as well as St. Louis County have adopted this policy. These two counties encompass about a third of the state's population of just over 6 million.

Policies of not prosecuting "low-level" marijuana offenses are in place in large metropolitan areas like New York City and Philadelphia and smaller urban areas as well. However, for a state where medical marijuana was just legalized by voters in last November's election, these decisions by county prosecutors may come as a surprise,