April 2019 - Dougherty Tobias Iszard, Northern Virginia Law, P.C.

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The well-publicized divorce of Jeff and MacKenzie Bezos has highlighted the issue of what a Virginia stay-at-home mom should receive in a divorce settlement. In most states, the answer to that question seems fairly obvious because the law requires an…

How do we define an unconstitutional ‘excessive fine’?

April 15, 2019
On behalf of Dougherty Tobias Iszard, Northern Virginia Law, P.C.
Criminal Defense, Manassas Virginia Legal Blog

In February, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Eighth Amendment’s “excessive fines” clause applies to the states. In other words, both states and the federal government are prohibited from levying excessive fines. It also ruled that civil asset forfeitures…

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