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The Role of Depositions in Disproving False Allegations

Family & Divorce Law Quinton G. Washington
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Quinton G. Washington
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Aug 21, 2024
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False allegations can be challenged effectively. Discover how temporary hearings and depositions help uncover the truth and protect your rights.

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one of the things we do is we work hard with our clients to disprove false allegations and you ask how do you do that it can be done several ways one is you can have a temporary Hearing in that temporary hearing you get to ask the other side when did this happen give me the specifics was there anybody else there to corroborate the story or you can ask for them to be deposed what is a deposition a deposition is when we have a court reporter come to our office and they have to come to our office or we decide upon a third party neutral location we have the court reporter there and we ask them questions under oath the answers to those questions under oath must be truthful if they’re proven not to be truthful then they can face penalties for perjuring themselves those penalties can be contempt of court citations or they can be jail time for perjuring yourself or violating a Court’s order or lying to the court