The laws surrounding licensing following a conviction for Driving While Ability Impaired by Drugs are confusing even for experienced Rochester DWI lawyers. This is because the potential driver’s license penalties are set forth not just in the list of penalties for impaired or intoxicated driving, but also in the penalties for controlled substance offenses. In […]
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Spouses are generally eligible to receive Social Security benefits post-divorce if the marriage lasted more than 10 years. Other eligibility requirements must be met before you can receive benefits, including being at least 62 years of age, being unmarried, and that the benefits you would receive from your own work history are less than what […]
As a class D felony, Aggravated Sexual Abuse in the Third Degree (NY PL 130.66) can put you away for as long as seven years. Rochester prosecutors charge NY PL 130.66 for particular types of conduct against particular types of people, namely the insertion of foreign objects into a person’s vagina, urethra, penis, rectum, or […]
Aggravated Sexual Abuse in the Fourth Degree (NY PL 130.65a) is a class E felony that Rochester prosecutors charge when you are alleged to have inserted a foreign object into the vagina, urethra, penis, rectum, or anus of another person who is incapable of consent for reasons other than being younger than 17 years old, […]
Rochester prosecutors have a range of charges they can file when sexual contact has occurred illegally. In Sexual Abuse in the First Degree (NY PL 130.65), the charge alleges that you engaged in sexual contact through the use of force, where the other person was physically helpless and unable to consent, where the other person […]
Sexual Abuse in the Second Degree (NY PL 130.60) in Rochester is the crime of engaging in sexual contact with another person without that person’s consent, and where the lack of consent is for a reason other than the person being younger than 17 years old. Sexual Abuse in the Second Degree will also be […]
If you engaged in sexual contact with a person who did not consent, you can be charged with Sexual Abuse in the Third Degree (NY PL 130.55) by prosecutors in Rochester. Conduct that can meets the terms of Sexual Abuse in the Third Degree is broadly understood to include touching another person’s intimate parts, for […]
Persistent Sexual Abuse (NY PL 130.53) is a law that Rochester prosecutors use to penalize a third sex crime conviction in a ten year period by charging a felony. Having two previous convictions for misdemeanor crimes like Forcible Touching or Sexual Abuse in the Third Degree, or felony sex offenses gives prosecutors license to charge […]
Yes, if you are currently covered by your spouse’s health insurance plan, you will continue to be covered for the duration of the divorce. Upon filing, the judge will issue automatic orders that maintain health and life insurance policies, cash and assets, and otherwise lock both parties into the financial situation that the marriage was […]
New York State law requires that any Rochester driver asked to take a breath test to determine his or her blood alcohol content be observed for at least 15 minutes prior to the collection of the breath sample. During this period, he or she must not have ingested alcoholic beverages or other fluids, regurgitated, vomited, […]