Grounds for A Utah Divorce The grounds for a Utah divorce are impotency, adultery, desertion for a year, failure to provide support, drunkenness, felony conviction, cruel treatment, irreconcilable differences, incurable insanity, or separation of three years under a decree of separate maintenance. Either the husband or the wife must be a county resident for 3 months (see Utah Code 30-3-1)…
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Marijuana Convictions and Student Loans
Marijuana and Financial Aid Many 18 year olds who go to college and leave their home for the first time envision a time of freedom and partying. Their new found freedom can include many late nights participating in under age drinking and drug use. What many young college students don’t know is that all of that partying can result in…
Juvenile Sex Crimes in Utah Involving Kids Under 14 Years Old
Kids Under 14 Years Old Can’t Consent to Sex In Utah, kids under 14 years of age cannot consent to sex. This raises a dilemma for the juvenile courts when two kids under the age of 14 years old decide to engage in sexual activity. The State often gets involved in cases involving sexual activity between young kids. Such cases…
Addictions and Divorce in Utah
Alcohol and Drug Addictions Many marriages are affected by drug and alcohol addictions and some addictions become so controlling over one spouse that there is little else to do but terminate the marriage. Addictions affect the divorce proceedings, especially if there have been children born to the marriage. The spouse who is struggling with the addiction may lose his rights…
Spice Laws In Utah
Utah Spice Lawyer Since before “spice” was first banned in Utah Salcido Law Firm has been on the forefront of defending individuals against Criminal Defense. Spice is not a single substance but is the name given to many different products that contain a myriad of different chemical substances. Those substances are listed in the Utah Code and they change annually…
Motion to Bifurcate in a Utah Divorce
Salt Lake Divorce Lawyer Contested divorce cases in Utah can sometimes run for many months and even years The emotional toll that a divorce action takes on an individual can be enormous and when there is a spouse who delays the proceedings just to stick it to the other spouse it can seem like there is no end in site. …
Feds Bust $4 Million Meth Operation in Utah
Back in February of 2012, the drug enforcement administration made one of the largest meth busts in Utah’s history and promised more significant busts were to come. They were not wrong as once again this week the DEA seized over 57 lbs of meth from a single vehicle passing through Utah. The DEA called this most recent bust the most…
Orem Cop’s Firing for Excessive Use of Force Upheld
Unnecessarily Aggressive Officer On September 19, 2009, Officer Dennis Nelson was asked to transport an individual who had been accused of interfering with the Utah County Major Crime Task Force (“the suspect”). When Nelson asked the suspect to remove a string bracelet from his wrist the suspect dropped it on the floor and said “it’s all yours” while making a…
Utah Police Officer Fired for Assault | Excessive Force
Firing Upheld for Officer’s Actions During Traffic Stop Many people complain about the treatment they receive from Utah police officers during a traffic stop. People complain of verbal abuse, excessive force, and other actions considered rude or offensive. People along the Wasatch Front and southern Utah have little recourse against harmful police excessive force though, because the actions are usually…
Utah Expedited Visitation Enforcement Lawyer
Emergency Parent-time Problems Many family law problems in Utah can take many months to resolve. A divorce for example, can even take years depending on if it is a contested divorce as opposed to an uncontested divorce. Many people who are part of family law cases easily become frustrated with the pace of their case because to them everything that…