A DUI arrest in Tulsa starts two separate tracks, one over your driver's license and one in criminal court, and each has its own clock.

Every year on November 1, a new batch of Oklahoma laws takes effect. This year there are more than 230 of them. Most won't change anything about your week. A few will, and one of them deserves the attention of anyone who has a medical marijuana card and a driver's license. The marijuana DUI change that isn't labeled a DUI law You won't find the word DUI in the title of Senate Bill 1257. On paper it's a drug scheduling bill. The Attorney General pushed for it to close what his

A federal judge in New York ruled that a man’s chats with an AI program about his own case were not protected, and prosecutors got to read them. Here is what that means for you, and what to do instead.

Uninsured motorist coverage is the part of your own policy that pays when the driver who hit you has no insurance, or not enough. Here is how it works in Oklahoma, and what your own company owes you when you use it.

A detective's card in the door. A phone call asking you to come down and clear something up. Officers on the porch asking to come inside and chat. Here is what is going on when that happens, and what to say.

Chapter 13 can stop an Oklahoma foreclosure late in the process, but the right to catch up on a home loan ends at the sale. Here is where the line falls. We are a debt relief agency. We help people file for bankruptcy relief under the Bankruptcy Code.

A target letter is the federal government telling you, in writing, that you are likely to be charged. What you do in the next few weeks can shape everything that follows.

Chapter 7 can wipe out credit cards, medical bills and old judgments in a few months. Here is how the process works in Tulsa, step by step. We are a debt relief agency. We help people file for bankruptcy relief under the Bankruptcy Code.

The call comes a day or two after the wreck. The adjuster is polite and only wants your side of it, on a recorded line. Here is what that recording is for, and what your rights are.

The call comes late at night, or it never comes and you hear it from someone else. Either way, families ask me the same things: where are they, how do we get them out, and what happens to their phone, their wallet and their car. This is what I tell them about Tulsa County. Finding them When someone is arrested on a misdemeanor or felony charge in Tulsa County, they are booked into the David L. Moss Criminal Justice Center, the county jail at 300 North Denver Avenue. Booking t

Cities, counties, sheriff's offices, and jails keep records about what they do. In Oklahoma, those records generally belong to the public. The Oklahoma Open Records Act, found at Title 51, Section 24A.1 and following, starts from the principle that people have a right to know and be fully informed about their government. When a citizen asks the right way, the government has a legal duty to respond, and it cannot simply refuse without a valid legal basis. What the law requires

A protective order petition and a criminal charge often grow out of the same incident. They are two separate cases, heard in different courtrooms under different rules. But they are connected, and how you handle one can shape the outcome of the other. Two cases, two different standards A protective order case is civil. The petitioner has to prove the case, but the burden is lower than the proof beyond a reasonable doubt required in a criminal prosecution. That means a person

A homeowners association can keep a neighborhood looking good, right up until a letter arrives announcing fines, a violation, or a lien against your home. HOA boards have real power, but it is not unlimited. Their authority comes from the neighborhood's governing documents, and when a board steps outside those documents, homeowners have options. Start with the governing documents Every HOA dispute starts with the paperwork: the declaration of covenants, the bylaws, and any ru

In much of eastern Oklahoma, sheriff's deputies and other state officers also hold commissions from tribal nations. That raises a hard question for families: when an officer with a tribal cross-commission hurts someone, can that officer be sued under federal civil rights law? A Tenth Circuit decision this summer, Walden v. City of Duncan, made the answer clearer, and it is already changing how these cases are litigated, including one of ours. Why color of state law matters Th

On October 5, 2026, the Supreme Court declined to hear Betty Shelby's appeal in the Terence Crutcher lawsuit. Here is what qualified immunity is, and what that order does and does not mean.

Served with a protective order in Oklahoma? What the emergency order means, why you should not make contact, and what evidence and witnesses to line up before the hearing.

For a lot of first-time defendants in Oklahoma, a deferred sentence is the best realistic outcome short of a dismissal. It is also widely misunderstood, including by people who already have one.

Since Kill. Bury. Print., people who were held in the McCurtain County jail have been asking whether what happened to them was illegal, and whether it is too late to act.

Chapter 7 wipes out debt in a few months. Chapter 13 lets you catch up over three to five years. Here is how to tell which one fits. We are a debt relief agency. We help people file for bankruptcy relief under the Bankruptcy Code.

The hours after an arrest are when people do the most damage to their own cases. Here is what matters in the first two days, for the person arrested and for the family trying to help.