Blog Posts in 2020

How Criminal Convictions Make Immigration More Challenging Many of the United States’ immigration policies and messaging target the “criminal alien” as a justification for increased enforcement and ...

Renewal Processing Has Resumed for Existing DACA Beneficiaries Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, has helped hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants who arrived in the United ...

Domestic violence is the attempt to cause bodily injury, or intentionally causing bodily injury upon an individual or upon a minor child residing with or in the custody of that individual by a person ...

In North Carolina, alimony is an order for payment for the support and maintenance of a spouse or former spouse for a specified or for an indefinite term. A “dependent spouse” is a spouse who is ...

Equitable distribution is the legal term in North Carolina for the process of dividing marital and divisible property. Equitable is not synonymous with equal and a 50/50 split is not required. ...

When going through a divorce, many people are concerned with how their property will be divided. It is the Court’s task to determine what is the marital and divisible property and to provide for the ...