What Should I Do after Being Pulled over for Suspected DWI? If you are arrested or pulled over for driving while intoxicated, always keep in mind that the police officer is just doing his job. You comply with the police officer’s requests. If he asks you for your driver’s license, your social security card, make…
What Should I Do if I am Asked to Take the Breathalyzer Test? If you are driving a vehicle and a police officer happens to pull you over, and you are asked to take a breathalyzer test on the site, consider how much alcohol you’ve had over the two, three, five-hour period of time prior…
What’s an Order of Protection? In domestic violence cases, it is very common to get an order of protection. An order of protection can be a stay away order where the individual can’t come near you, your home, your place of business, your school. Anywhere where you are customarily, they can’t be. Another type of…
How to Manage Domestic Violence If you are a victim of domestic abuse, it is my recommendation that you contact your attorney right away. There are many options available to someone who has suffered in this way. Recidivism rates in domestic abuse cases are between 70 and 80%. That means that if you have suffered,…
What Should I Know About Domestic Abuse? I would define domestic abuse by any threat. It doesn’t actually have to be something that has been carried out against you, but any threat to harm you physically, emotionally, financially, in any respect whatsoever, that is harassment. Harassment, depending on the degree, can be a violation. It…
What Is Important to Know about Texting and Driving? If a police officer pulls you over for texting on your phone while you’re driving, that is a five point violation that you’re going to be confronted with. Now it is true, if it’s a first offense, there may be some leniency when we get in…
What Should I Know About the No-Tolerance Law in New York State? The No-Tolerance Law in New York state essentially applies to those who are under the age of 21 years. If you are pulled over for driving while intoxicated and found guilty of driving while intoxicated, your license will be suspended for at least…