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In Legal Terms: former Chief Justice William Waller Jr.
46:38|We’ve focused on our Legislative officials this election season – let’s now hear about our Judicial branch with our guest former Chief Justice William L. “Bill” Waller Jr.Today’s Legal Terms on In Legal Terms are: APPELLATE JURISDICTION, JUDICIAL, ADMINISTRATION, and RULEMAKING AUTHORITYElections are over! Oh, not they’re not. Do you have a runoff election on Tuesday, December 1st? If you live in Hinds, Covington, Forrest, Perry, Rankin, Simpson, or Stone Counties you might.It’s too late to register to vote for these elections on December 1st but there’s always another election. As this past week has shown, it’s so important to register to vote, double check that you are still registered, and to know your correct polling place. Those are three reasons why many affidavit ballots were rejected in this past election cycle. The Mississippi Supreme Court meets in the Carroll Gartin Justice Building located in downtown Jackson, Mississippi. What else is in downtown Jackson? The 83rd National Folk Festival will be going on Friday the 13th, Saturday, and Sunday the 15th of November. The free event is in its 2nd of 3 years residency in Mississippi. Musical Artists from all over the world come to Jackson, MS for a revival of dance, culture and sounds. See and hear a diverse range of music, from Blues, bluegrass, Cajun, Hawaiian, Afro-Colombian, Filipino, and more. You can watch parts of last year’s event on MPB’s website but we encourage you to come to downtown Jackson to watch this year’s festival in person or listen to live selections on MPB Think Radio. In Legal Terms, the show where we break down the law, explain how it works, and help make it a little less intimidating for everyday Mississippians is hosted by attorney Adam Kilgore. legalterms@mbponline.orgIf you enjoyed listening to this podcast, please consider contributing to MPB: https://donate.mpbfoundation.org/mspb/podcastYou can listen LIVE to us from the MPB Public Media app or from MPBonline.org/radioThursdays, following our over-the-air broadcast, you can hear Next Stop Mississippi on MPB Think Radio at 4pm Central.
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In Legal Terms: Youthful Mistakes
44:59|We hope to learn from our mistakes but what if those mistakes follow you all your life? What do parents and young adults need to know about getting into or out of legal trouble? We’ll learn with attorney Matt Eichelberger from Eichelberger Law Firm.Today’s Legal Terms on In Legal Terms are: MINOR IN POSSESSION (MIP), NONADJUDICATION, EXPUNGEMENTWhat’s going on right now?! I want to plug MPB for a second. To get Mississippi News, check out mpbonline.org. We’ll keep you up to date on the election coverage which will be going on at least until Wednesday, November 11th. Then On Friday, the 13th we’ll have some of the acts from the National Folk Fest broadcast live. Have a listen if you can’t travel to Jackson for this 2nd of three year three day music festival. Then in December, MPB TV and Radio will have the Mississippi Alabama All Star High School Football Game and the Mississippi North South All Start Football Game.Want some additional information on how to possibly fix some of these "Youthful Mistakes"? MPB News has an article and In Legal Terms has a podcast talking about expungements. If this is information you need, or someone else needs, please share it.In Legal Terms, the show where we break down the law, explain how it works, and help make it a little less intimidating for everyday Mississippians is hosted by attorney Adam Kilgore. legalterms@mbponline.orgIf you enjoyed listening to this podcast, please consider contributing to MPB: https://donate.mpbfoundation.org/mspb/podcastYou can listen LIVE to us from the MPB Public Media app or from MPBonline.org/radioThursdays, following our over-the-air broadcast, you can hear Next Stop Mississippi on MPB Think Radio at 4pm Central.In Legal Terms: Between Legislative Sessions with Rep Gibbs
44:56|Mississippi’s Legislative session is only 90 days. It starts next January 5th of 2027. What have our legislators been up to since last April? We’ll learn today with District 72 Mississippi House of Representative, Justis Gibbs.Today’s Legal Terms on In Legal Terms are: constituent services, committee process, appropriations Election Day is next Tuesday. Has your polling place moved? More on that next. Local Mississippi Officials Have Made 138 Polling Place Changes Ahead of the 2026 Election according to the Mississippi Free Press. There is a MS Law from 2025 that polling places can’t change less than 60 days before an election. Click on the My Election Day button on the Secretary of State’s Y’all vote dot ms site to double check where you are assigned to vote and look up your own Sample Ballot after you put in your address so you’ll be prepared on Tuesday, November 3rd – Election Day.Do you know the difference between absentee and affidavit? You may vote absentee in person from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m today and tomorrow and 8am to noon Saturday, October 31stat your circuit clerk’s office.Once your ballot is scanned, you have completed the in-person absentee process, and your ballot will be counted on the night of the election, after the polls have closed.Voters are required to show photo identification at the polls. A voter without an acceptable form of photo identification is entitled to cast an affidavit ballot. Voters who cast an affidavit ballot because they forgot their voter ID must present an acceptable form of photo ID to their Circuit Clerk's Office by November 10.Election Day remindersMS House District 72 contact information: jgibbs@house.ms.gov Home: (601) 827-1691 Capitol (601) 359-3728 Hotline: (601)827-1691In Legal Terms: Special Needs Law and waver websites
31:54|Our good friend and Certified Elder Law Attorney, Rick Courtney is here today to talk to us about Special Needs Law. Today’s Legal Terms on In Legal Terms are: Home and Community-Based Services (HCBS), Medicaid Waiver, Qualified Charitable Distribution (QCD)Independent Living Waver and Traumatic Brain Injury Spinal Cord Injury Waver: MS Dept of Rehabilitation ServicesIntellectual or Developmentally Disabled Waver: Dept of Mental HealthElderly and Disabled Waver: MS Area Agency on Aging In Legal Terms, the show where we break down the law, explain how it works, and help make it a little less intimidating for everyday Mississippians is hosted by attorney Adam Kilgore. legalterms@mbponline.orgIf you enjoyed listening to this podcast, please consider contributing to MPB: https://donate.mpbfoundation.org/mspb/podcastYou can listen LIVE to us from the MPB Public Media app or from MPBonline.org/radioThursdays, following our over-the-air broadcast, you can hear Next Stop Mississippi on MPB Think Radio at 4pm Central.
In Legal Terms: guest Richard Courtney
00:29|In Legal Terms has been so grateful that Richard Courtney has been a guest on our show to discuss Estate Planning, Elder Law, Special Needs Law and other topics. You’ll find links to all his broadcasts on the information for this recording. In Legal Terms is heard live Thursdays at 3pm Central on MPB Think Radio and at mpb online / radio https://www.mpbonline.org/radio/10/22/2026 Special Needs Law and waver websites10/14/2025 Estate Elder Special Needs Law Answers04/29/2025 Elder Law 2025 10/15/2024 Special Needs Law Month04/23/2024 Medicaid 08/16/2023 Marriage & Estates05/02/2023 National Elder Law Month http://inlegalterms.mpbonline.org/episodes/in-legal-terms-national-elder-law-month11/20/2022 Trustees http://inlegalterms.mpbonline.org/episodes/in-legal-terms-trustees03/08/2022 Wills http://inlegalterms.mpbonline.org/episodes/in-legal-terms-wills-with-richard-courtney10/12/2021Elder Abuse http://inlegalterms.mpbonline.org/episodes/in-legal-terms-elder-abuse04/13/2021 Executors http://inlegalterms.mpbonline.org/episodes/in-legal-terms-executor10/27/2020 Special Needs Law http://inlegalterms.mpbonline.org/episodes/in-legal-terms-special-needs-law07/02/2019 Gap Act http://inlegalterms.mpbonline.org/episodes/in-legal-terms-gap-act05/14/2019 Wills and Probate http://inlegalterms.mpbonline.org/episodes/in-legal-terms-wills-and-probate-and-executors08/08/2017 Estate Planning http://inlegalterms.mpbonline.org/episodes/5cd2d695f9e59c996625766b10/28/2016 Special Needs Law Month http://inlegalterms.mpbonline.org/episodes/5cd2d695f9e59c996625768b8/23/2022 In Legal Terms: Estate Planning http://inlegalterms.mpbonline.org/episodes/in-legal-terms-estate-planningIn Legal Terms: Say What?
45:58|What should you / can you say? After an accident? To your lawyer? To AI? We’re going to talk about what you should and should not say or type with our guest: attorney, James "Bud" Sheppard from Sheppard Law Firm. Do you love a good FAQ? I’ve got a good one for you: sheppardlawfirm.net is our guest’s firm’s site. There are FAQs and blogs on landlord / tenant, personal injury, and estate planning. Two weeks and four days, are you ready? Do you need a ride to the polls? You can book Roll 2 The Polls with Mississippi Motivating & Organizing Voters for Empowerment. You can fill out your info online or give them a call or text with your name, address to be picked up, polling place and timeframe for pick up to their dispatch line 662-205-6683 (MOVE). They operate in RANKIN County, HINDS County, and MADISON County. However you can, make a plan to get to the polls Tuesday, November 3rd between 7am and 7pm.In Legal Terms, the show where we break down the law, explain how it works, and help make it a little less intimidating for everyday Mississippians is hosted by attorney Adam Kilgore. legalterms@mbponline.orgIf you enjoyed listening to this podcast, please consider contributing to MPB: https://donate.mpbfoundation.org/mspb/podcastYou can listen LIVE to us from the MPB Public Media app or from MPBonline.org/radioThursdays, following our over-the-air broadcast, you can hear Next Stop Mississippi on MPB Think Radio at 4pm Central.In Legal Terms: Voting Rights History and Future
44:57|What’s really going on and how did we get here? We need some explanation. Our guest today is Kevin T. Morris, co-authored An American Problem: How the Country Built—and the Supreme Court Broke—the Voting Rights Act. Let’s learn together.Today’s Legal Terms on In Legal Terms are: PRECLEARANCE, VOTE DILUTION, RACIAL TURNOUT GAP If you don’t know, yallvote.ms is a short cut for the web address of the Mississippi Secretary of State’s Office. There were some issues reported on the validity of the voter registration information given out – but y’all need to check for yourself. You can type in your zip code and street address and get your sample ballot. I bet you’ll see more races than you thought. We’re past the voter registration deadline, but you can check to see if they have your correct information so’ll you’ll be prepared when you go to the polls on November 3rd. Remember – if you get to the polls and something is wrong – you don’t have your ID, you are listed as registered, ASK to CAST a affidavit ballot – then you can get it all straighten out later.How about a signed copy of the book and listen to the author do a reading? The event: Kevin Morris In conversation with Zakiya Summers is Wednesday, October 14th The signing is at 5:00 PM; the reading is at 5:30 PM at Lemuria Books in Jackson