Tulsa Attorney Blog
Can a Mother Demand a Paternity Test of a Biological Father in Oklahoma Before a Child is Born?
A Tulsa child custody lawyerexplains how a mother can compel an alleged father to undergo a court-ordered paternity test by filing a petition to establish paternity even before a child is born. Read more »Can a Biological Father File a Petition to Establish Paternity in Oklahoma Before a Child is Born?
Prompt Actions Help In Contested Paternity News of a pregnancy can be a cause for great joy, and at the same time may trigger deep anxiety. One source of anxiety prior to the birth of a child involves acknowledgement of paternity and contesting paternity. A petition to establish paternity filed in an Oklahoma court can […] Read more »Oklahoma Court Sneaks In Good Faith Exception to the Exclusionary Rule
Unpublished Decision Reverses Earlier Precedent Courts lately seem to find ever more twisted logic to explain away constitutional protections against unreasonable searches and seizures – a right the constitution says “shall not be violated.” The United States Supreme Court took a broadaxe to the Fourth Amendment when it declared in United States v. Calandra, 414 […] Read more »Good Faith Exception Rewards Cops' Ignorance
Exclusionary Rule Further Eroded Is it reasonable for a police officer not to know the law? The United States Supreme Court recently said yes, sometimes. What’s more, the court provided an incentive for police to adopt expansive interpretations of the law until a court tells them otherwise. In a December 15, 2014 decision, the court […] Read more »Oklahoma Attorney General seeks 'Gag Order' in Prison Rape Case
Attorneys for a group of women allegedly raped by prison guards say the Oklahoma Attorney General's Office is seeking a gag order that would unnecessarily bar attorneys from speaking with news media. Read more »New Laws Allow Oklahoma Expungement Sooner, More Often
Some Oklahoma misdemeanors can be expunged after one year. To learn more, call a Tulsa expungement attorney at (918) 932-1681. Read more »Parenting Classes Now Required in Oklahoma Divorce
A Tulsa divorce attorney advises parents anticipating a no fault divorce to be prepared to attend parenting classes now required under a new Oklahoma law. Read more »New Law Defines Workplace Social Media Privacy in Oklahoma
New workplace social media privacy laws in Oklahoma usually protect employees' social media from employers' snooping but when employees use workplace computers during the workday to log on to social media accounts. Read more »New Oklahoma Open Records Laws Expand Public Right to Know
A new Oklahoma law says police dash cam videos are now open records. New laws also allow civil lawsuits to enforce Oklahoma Open Meetings Act. Read more »Oklahoma Parenting Penalty Hurts Families, Erodes Trust in Law
It has been five years since the Oklahoma DHS concluded the legislature accidentally passed a law that penalizes parents for parenting. DHS' illogical interpretation of parenting time adjustments does not encourage troubled parents to work out reasonable solutions. If DHS refuses to read the law as intended, lawmakers need to clarify their intent. Read more »Oklahoma DHS Child Support Computations Defy Common Sense
Part 2: An Exercise in Bureaucratic Nonsense UPDATE: In April 2015, an Oklahoma judge found that DHS had overstated interest on back child support obligations of some non-custodial parents. Learn how DHS calculated interest why some parents could get refunds for interest on back child support here. UPDATE: In May, 2015, Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin […] Read more »Oklahoma DHS Child Support Form Penalizes Shared Parenting
An Oklahoma Dept. of Human Services child support form penalizes certain parents for parenting by applying an increase when no adjustment is indicated. A Tulsa child support lawyer says the practice is illogical and legislators should step in if the DHS refuses to interpreted the law as they intended it to be read. Read more »Oklahoma DHS Child Support Computation Form Error Calculator
This calculator estimates how much excess child support might be collected if parenting time adjustments are calculated using Oklahoma DHS forms. Read more »Rogers County Commissioners Fire District Attorney
Janice Steidley may continue to represent Oklahoma in criminal matters but her office can no longer act as legal counsel for Rogers County. Why? Read more »Client Review: Tulsa Workers Compensation Attorney
Tulsa injury attorney James Wirth helped a client get the workers compensation she deserved after she suffered a slip and fall injury at her Oklahoma workplace. Read more »Oklahoma Attorney James M. Wirth Celebrates 10th Year at Law
10 Years of Accessible Representation Tulsa attorney James M. Wirth on Sept. 28, 2014, celebrated 10 successful years as a licensed Oklahoma attorney. “My law practice has been personally rewarding to me, and it’s provided a way for me to help countless clients solve difficult legal problems,” Mr. Wirth said. During the 10 years Mr. […] Read more »Oklahoma Appeals Court Rejects Intoxilyzer 8000 Breathalyzer Results
Decision Could Affect Oklahoma DUI Prosecutions The state’s highest criminal appeals court has driven another nail in the coffin of the Intoxilyzer 8000 breathalyzer used in Oklahoma driving under the influence cases. Unfortunately, this robocop machine might be counted among the undead. Here is why. The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals on Sept. 11, 2014 […] Read more »Grand Jury Calls for Standardized Oklahoma Giglio Policies
No Rogers County Officials Indicted An Oklahoma grand jury has recommended that the Oklahoma Attorney General’s office draft model policies to guide prosecutors’ handling of information that could assist criminal defendants. The recommendation was the most substantive result of a grand-jury investigation into alleged wrongdoing among Rogers County prosecutors and police. The clock ran out […] Read more »Surge in Oklahoma Prison Intakes Did Not Ease Tulsa Jail Crowding
Jail Population Trending Upward A move to transfer prison-bound inmates from county jails has not reduced ongoing overcrowding at Tulsa County jail. The last time the Tulsa jail population dipped below the jail’s rated capacity of 1,700 inmates was more than a month ago, on July 18, 2014. While Tulsa County jail remains crowded, inmates […] Read more »Police Misconduct in Oklahoma: Tulsa Officer Charged with Murder
Misconduct Makes Cop’s Testimony Unreliable When police officers step on the wrong side of the law, the personal tragedy in some ways resembles that of any other person in trouble with the law. Regardless of an urge to gloat among those – including criminal defense attorneys – who often engage cops in legal battles, it […] Read more »Rogers County Sheriff, Other Officials Remain Mired in Controversies
Intrigue among Rogers County officials just never seems to fade away. One might think a landslide defeat in which incumbent District Attorney Janice Steidley received a meager 13 percent of votes in the Republican primary race would have dampened allegations and counter allegations. Not so. The widely circulated allegations of 2013 sprang up around claims […] Read more »Rogers County Cops and Courts Controversies Timeline
Wirth Law Office compiled a timeline of Rogers County controversies that include allegations of lying by police, a grand jury investigation of the DA, public officials libel lawsuits against other officials and the local newspaper, and the landslide electoral defeat of the Rogers County District Attorney. Read more »Client Review: Tulsa Child Custody Lawyer
A father explains how he personally benefited from the help of a Wirth Law Office Tulsa child custody lawyer in his family law case. Read more »Does Oklahoma Attorney-Client Privilege Protect Jailhouse Phone Calls?
The New York Times recently reported that prosecutors in a federal extortion case had claimed a right to use as evidence jailhouse e-mails a defendant sent to his attorney. The federal Bureau of Prisons routinely monitors inmates’ e-mails delivered via a prison e-mail system. Among pre-trial discovery materials prosecutors provided, defense attorneys found e-mails a […] Read more »Client Review: Oklahoma Auto Accident Attorney
With the help of Wirth Law Office's Tulsa Ok auto accident attorneys, a Muskogee woman got much needed compensation after a costly auto accident. Read more »
