Crouch Law, LLC

03/19/2021

Win for today-- Successfully communicated with Office of Motor Vehicles and got client's driver's license cleared for reinstatement without getting ignition interlock installed or SR22 insurance!

02/19/2020

02/12/2020

I just got off the phone with a client’s spouse, who expressed her gratitude and satisfaction with a plea agreement I negotiated for her husband last week. The client was facing life imprisonment and ultimately plead no lo contendere to two misdemeanors and received a six month suspended sentence and one year probation. This outcome resulted from a tremendous team effort by myself, my co-counsel George Blair, my client and his family. I’m so happy that I contributed to bringing peace and closure to a family who had been fighting this case for 6 years!

01/11/2020

I’m honored to be chosen as one of the top 40 under 40 criminal defense attorneys in Louisiana by The National Trial Lawyers!

12/27/2019

12/05/2019

Are you or someone you know on parole and want early termination? Louisiana passed laws in 2017 making this possible...Call me at 504-982-6995, email [email protected] or direct message me if you are interested.

05/10/2019

EXAMPLE CHILD SUPPORT WORKSHEET A

05/10/2019

HOW TO CALCULATE CHILD SUPPORT IN LOUISIANA (PART 1)

In Louisiana, child support is based on an income shares model wherein a Court will use one of two worksheets to calculate a basic child support obligation based upon:
(1) the custody arrangement,
(2) both parent's monthly gross income (before taxes),
(3) the Louisiana Child Support Guidelines.

A total child support obligation is determined by adding together the basic child support obligation amount, the net child care costs, the cost of health insurance premiums, extraordinary medical expenses, and other extraordinary expenses.

Each party’s share of the total child support obligation is then calculated by multiplying his or her percentage share of adjusted gross income times the total child support obligation.

The party without legal custody or nondomiciliary parent shall owe his or her total child support obligation as a money judgment of child support to the custodial or domiciliary parent, minus any court-ordered direct payments made on behalf of the child for work-related net child care costs, health insurance premiums, extraordinary medical expenses, or extraordinary expenses provided as adjustments to the schedule.

CHOOSING WORKSHEET A OR B

First, you must select which worksheet to use:

Worksheet A is the default worksheet and is used when where one parent is the primary physical custodian of the child. This includes cases where one parent has sole legal custody and where the parents have joint legal custody and the court designates a “domiciliary parent”

In cases of joint custody, the court shall consider the period of time spent by the child with the nondomiciliary parent as a basis for adjustment of the child support to be paid during that period of time.

Worksheet B is used when the parties have “shared custody” meaning each parent has physical custody of the child for an approximately equal amount of time. See La. R.S. 9.315.9

EXAMPLE USING WORKSHEET A

In this example, Mom is the petitioner (person asking for support) and the domiciliary parent and Dad is the Respondent ( person paying support). Mom makes $4k a month before taxes and Dad makes $6k a month before taxes.

In this example, Dad owes Mom $684.60 per month in child support.

Stay tuned for an example using worksheet B!

THIS POST IS FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY AND IS NOT A SUBSTITUTE FOR LEGAL ADVICE. FOR QUESTIONS ABOUT YOUR PARTICULAR CASE, CALL US AT 504-982-6995 FOR A FREE CONSULTATION.

10/04/2017

I stayed up late last night reading the writs in this fascinating case!

U.S. Supreme Court to Hear Louisiana Case on Authority of Lawyer to Concede Client’s Guilt in Death Penalty Case Posted on September 29, 2017 by Dane S. Ciolino On September 28, 2017, the United States Supreme Court granted certiorari in McCoy v. Louisiana, No. 16-8255 to decide whether it is ineffe...