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Proving your case by proving certain factors is a fact of legal life in Mississippi.  I’ve referred to it as trial by checklist.  If you’re not putting on proof of the factors when they apply in your case, you are wasting your and the court’s time, as well as your client’s money, and you are committing malpractice to boot. 

Many lawyers have told me that they print out these checklists and use them at trial.  I encourage you to copy these checklists and use them in your trial notebooks.  And while you’re at it, you’re free to copy any post for your own personal use, but not for commercial use.  Lawyers have told me that they are building notebooks tabbed with various subjects and inserting copies of my posts (along with other useful material, I imagine).  Good.  If it improves practice and makes your (and my) job easier and more effective, I’m all for it. 

Here is an updated list of links to the checklists I’ve posted:

Attorney’s fees.

Attorney’s fees in an estate.

Adverse possession.

Child custody.

Closing an estate.

Doing an accounting in a probate matter.

Grandparent visitation.

Equitable distribution.

Income tax dependency exemption.

Modification of child support.

Periodic and rehabilitative alimony.

Lump sum alimony.

Separate maintenance.

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§ 5 Responses to UPDATED CHECKLIST OF CHECKLISTS

• No Findings = Reversal | The Better Chancery Practice Blog says:

  April 2, 2018 at 6:12 am

  […] them without evidence to support them. If you’re wondering what the applicable factors are, here is a link to lists of them , which I have referred to as […]

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• The Need for Findings | The Better Chancery Practice Blog says:

  February 28, 2018 at 6:07 am

  […] them without evidence to support them. If you’re wondering what the applicable factors are, here is a link to lists of them , which I have referred to as […]

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• Reprise: That Checklist Thing | The Better Chancery Practice Blog says:

  February 6, 2014 at 7:01 am

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• TOP TEN TIPS TO IMPRESS A CHANCELLOR AT TRIAL: #3 « 12th CHANCERY COURT DISTRICT OF MISSISSIPPI says:

  August 9, 2012 at 7:01 am

  […] If you go to the “search by category” window up there to the right and click on “checklists,” you will find ths posts I’ve made on the subject. Or, you can click this link and get a menu of checklist posts. […]

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• TOP TEN TIPS TO IMPRESS A CHANCELLOR AT TRIAL: #8 « 12th CHANCERY COURT DISTRICT OF MISSISSIPPI says:

  May 17, 2012 at 7:01 am

  […] your trial factors printed out and handy, with case cites. Use them as checklists to question your […]

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