Posts by Luke Williams
When Your Personal Life Becomes the Insurance Company’s Evidence
Most American adults are on social media, with 71% using Facebook alone, and for someone with an open injury claim that ordinary habit carries an unusual risk. The same posts that keep you connected can land in a claims adjuster’s file, right next to the public records from your divorce or custody case. Insurance companies…
Read MorePhones, Texts, and Tracking Apps: When One Parent Controls a Child’s Device in an Alabama Custody Case
Nearly half of parents say they have read through their teenager’s text messages and call records, and about one in six use tools to track a child’s location. Inside a single household, that’s ordinary parenting. When two parents share custody, the same phone turns into one of the most contested objects in the case. A…
Read MoreHow a New Relationship Can Affect Custody, Divorce, and Alimony in Alabama
In Alabama, a new relationship under the same roof can do something a breakup never could, which is switch off your alimony for good. Under Alabama Code Section 30-2-55, a court will end periodic spousal support once the paying spouse proves that the person receiving it has remarried or is cohabiting with a new partner.…
Read MoreCan You Still Recover Compensation If You Did Not Go to the ER Right Away After an Accident?
In the hours after a crash, your body floods with adrenaline, and that surge can hide a serious injury behind a feeling that you came through fine. According to the Mayo Clinic, whiplash symptoms often do not start until days after the injury, which is why so many people wave off a trip to the…
Read MoreHow Surveillance Footage Can Make or Break an Alabama Injury Claim
Unintentional falls are the leading cause of nonfatal injuries treated in American emergency rooms, sending more than nine million people to the hospital in a single recent year. A surprising share of those falls happen on camera, inside the store, parking lot, or lobby where they occurred. The catch is that the recording rarely waits…
Read MoreWhen Abuse Touches Every Case at Once: Domestic Violence, Injury Claims, and Divorce in Alabama
About one in four women and nearly one in ten men have faced physical violence, sexual violence, or stalking by an intimate partner during their lifetime, and for many of them, the harm does not stay inside a single courtroom. A pattern of abuse can spill into a divorce, a custody dispute, a request for…
Read MoreWhen Accident Bills Meet a Breakup: How Medical Debt Affects Property Division in an Alabama Divorce
People in the United States owe at least 220 billion dollars in medical debt, and unlike a mortgage or a car loan, this kind of bill tends to arrive without warning after a single bad moment on the road. When that moment lands in the middle of a divorce, the financial pressure collides with decisions…
Read MoreHurt on the Other Parent’s Watch: Your Rights When Your Child Is Injured during Custody Time in Alabama
Unintentional injuries are the leading cause of death for children in the United States, and more than half of them happen in and around the home, where a child spends ordinary days and nights. For parents raising a child across two households, that reality raises a hard question the moment a handoff goes wrong. When…
Read MoreCan a Parent’s Injury or Disability Change Custody in Alabama?
After a serious accident, one of the first fears many parents face has nothing to do with their own recovery. It is the worry that an ex might point to a wheelchair, a healing injury, or a new limitation and say, “You can’t take care of them anymore.” That fear is understandable, but Alabama law…
Read MoreWhen a Personal Injury Settlement Affects Child Support or Alimony in Alabama
Imagine winning a hard-fought injury settlement, only to open a letter weeks later saying your ex-spouse wants a share of it. For many Alabamians, that scenario is not hypothetical. It is the moment two very different areas of law collide. A personal injury settlement is meant to make an injured person whole. But when that…
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