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Driving Without a License in Louisiana Is How Many Families End Up in ICE Custody
A man drives to work on Airline Highway the same way he has for eleven years. His taillight is out. The officer asks for a license and he does not have one, because Louisiana would not give him one. By the end of the week he is in a detention center in central Louisiana, and…
Louisiana Allows Permitless Carry. Here Is How People Still Get Arrested for Guns
On July 4, 2024, Louisiana became a permitless carry state. Since then, most adults 18 and older who can legally possess a firearm may carry a concealed handgun without a permit or mandatory training. Louisiana law provides this authority under La. R.S. 14:95(M). A lot of people heard that news and stopped paying attention to…
Alimony in Louisiana: Fault, Need, and the One Third Cap
Louisiana does not use the word alimony in its code. It uses spousal support, and it splits it into two very different things. People who confuse them tend to either give up a claim they had or spend a year fighting for one they never could have won. Interim support: keeping the lights on during…
Rozas Developed a Two-Minute Lead Response System That Gained National Legal Tech Recognition
When you call a law firm about a legal problem, you’re usually hoping to hear back in minutes, not days. That’s exactly the experience Matthew Rozas built into the intake process at Rozas Law Firm, and it’s earned the firm outside recognition it didn’t have to ask for. Matthew Rozas, Chief Operating Officer at Rozas…
Covenant Marriage in Louisiana: Why Getting Out Is Harder Than Getting In
Most people who call us about a divorce have never heard the words covenant marriage. A smaller group has heard them, because they are standing in the middle of one, and they have just learned that the divorce their friends got in six months is not available to them. Louisiana created covenant marriage in 1997….
How Louisiana Child Support Is Actually Calculated, and Why the Number Surprises Almost Everyone
Two things surprise people about child support in Louisiana. The first is how mechanical it is. The second is how much room there still is to fight, once you understand where the fight actually lives. Louisiana uses guidelines set out in La. R.S. 9:315 and the sections that follow. The court determines each parent’s monthly…
You Want to Move Out of Louisiana With Your Child. The Relocation Statute Decides Whether You Can
This is one of the hardest family law problems there is, because both parents are usually right. One parent has a genuine opportunity, a new spouse, a family support system, a job that pays what Baton Rouge does not. The other parent has a relationship with a child that survives on Wednesday dinners and alternating…
Your Child Was Arrested in East Baton Rouge Parish. Juvenile Court Is Not a Smaller Version of Adult Court
Parents call us in a particular kind of panic. Their fifteen year old was picked up after a fight at school, or with a car full of friends and something in the glove box, and someone at the scene told them not to worry, it is only juvenile court. That advice is well meant and…
ICE Put a Hold on Someone at East Baton Rouge Parish Prison. Here Is What That Actually Means
The call to our office usually starts the same way. A family scraped together bond money for a relative sitting in East Baton Rouge Parish Prison, and the jail told them there is a hold. An immigration hold. Nobody at the window explained what that means, and the family is now trying to make a…
The Plea That Deports You: Why a Louisiana Criminal Case Is an Immigration Case Too
A man walks into our office holding a piece of paper from eight years ago. It is a minute entry from a Louisiana district court. He pled guilty to a theft charge, got probation, completed it, and had the case set aside. His lawyer told him it would not be on his record. He believed…
