The legal fees that are paid to a lawyer for a case if subject to money awarded are called contingent fees. In case there is a monetary award, the lawyer gets a percentage of the recovery. There is no written law about the contingent fees the attorney can charge a client. However, the rates are [...]
Louisiana’s legal system is different from other American state laws. Initially it was based on Napoleonic code, though it is now gradually falling in line with other American states. Napoleon had based his legal system on Roman law and codified it. The rest of American states, however, follow the English common law, which is based [...]
A divorce suit is perhaps the commonest of court cases. Social service institutions offering good Samaritan advice and legal knowledge, as well as do-it-yourself legal resources have proliferated in unprecedented numbers all around the country. Still, disputes and situations leading to divorce are sometimes so unique that standard interpretations of law cannot explain them and [...]
