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Stories from the frontlines … Trinity Advocates & Others Supporting Veterans
Boots on the Ground – Published State Supreme Court Decision Protects Veterans’ Disability Pay from Being Misappropriated by State Courts
Foster v. Foster, 505 Mich. 151, 949 N.W.2d 102 (2020) - This case was released at the end of April, but on October 26, 2020 we received the official notice of its publication in the national reporter. A unanimous decision in favor of our client (after two Court of...
Boots on the Ground – (Fort Campbell, Kentucky and Tennessee) – Carson J. Tucker of Lex Fori PLLC Submits Supplemental Brief Defending Disabled Veteran in State Court
In Miller v. Miller, Attorney Carson J. Tucker of Lex Fori PLLC appeared pro hac vice and filed a supplemental brief to bring the state trial court's attention to the sweeping unanimous opinions secured by Mr. Tucker in the Supreme Court of Michigan case of Foster v....
Georgia Court of Appeals Rules that Howell v. Howell Prohibits a State Court from Using Veterans’ Disability Pay as Divisible Property and Violates Veterans’ Due Process Rights by Making the Veteran Pay Alimony from His Disability Pay
Federal Law Prohibits State Courts from Counting Veterans' Disability Pay as Property In an opinion dated September 18, 2020, the Georgia Court of Appeals cited to Howell v. Howell, and ruled that state courts could not force a disabled veteran to use his disability...
Remembering September 11, 2001
We at Trinity Advocates are dedicated to ensuring our military servicemembers and veterans have the support and protections that they have afforded us for many generations. Protections that the laws and the Constitution that they swore to uphold and defend fully...
Boots on the Ground – Preparing the Battlefield – Carson J. Tucker and Lex Fori PLLC Submitted Amicus Curiae Brief Leading to Minnesota Court of Appeals Reversal of State Case Law and Ruling that Federal Law Preempts State Courts from Dividing Military Disability Compensation as Marital Property and Renders Such Property Divisions Unenforceable, Even if Agreed Upon
Part of our work in advancing disabled veteran's constitutional rights to their benefits is relying on amicus curiae (friend of the court) brief writing to ensure that state courts are following the federal laws that protect veteran's disability benefits from "all...
Boots on the Ground – Lex Fori PLLC and Carson J. Tucker Submit Pro Bono Brief in Louisiana Supreme Court Defending Disabled Veteran
In keeping with our efforts in providing pro bono representation to disabled veterans and protecting their disability benefits from being depleted by state courts and overwhelming legal fees, I filed an appearance and was admitted to the Louisiana Supreme Court in the...
Boots on the Ground – Court of Appeals Reverses 2008 Judgment Dispossessing Veteran of Disability Pay – Michigan Court of Appeals Rules State Courts Have No Subject Matter Jurisdiction to Divide Veterans’ Disability Pay Protected by Federal Law
In August 2014 Carson J. Tucker and Lex Fori PLLC took up an appeal in a case for a disabled veteran who had been held in contempt in a 2014 proceeding in Dickinson County, Michigan for violating a 2008 judgment. After two initial Court of Appeals opinions against the...
Boots on the Ground – United States Supreme Court Petition Filed to Protect Disabled Veteran’s Benefits
Carson J. Tucker and Lex Fori PLLC filed a petition in the United States Supreme Court on Friday, August 28, 2020 to protect veteran’s disability benefits from wrongful appropriation contrary to federal law. For decades, disabled veterans have suffered immeasurably...
Boots on the Ground – Carson J. Tucker and Lex Fori PLLC Appear Pro Hac Vice and File Pro Bono Petition in Louisiana Supreme Court in Boutte v. Boutte
Carson J. Tucker and Lex Fori PLLC have filed another pro bono petition defending a disabled veteran in state court. A petition for a writ of certiorari was filed in the Louisiana Supreme Court in the case of Boutte v. Boutte. In keeping with our efforts to provide...