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    • Firm Insights

    Free legal help from a friend can cost you your appeal options

    Free legal help from a friend can cost you an appeal. Learn how missed deadlines and unpreserved issues happen, and how to set clear terms.
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    • Costs
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    • Family Law Appeals

    Lost a will contest in Utah? How to appeal a probate ruling

    Lost a will contest? Learn how to appeal a probate ruling in Utah: which orders qualify, the 30-day deadline, and how courts review the findings.
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    • Evaluation
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    • Deadlines
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    • Probate
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    • Anti-SLAPP / UPEPA

    How a UPEPA appeal in Utah works: timing, steps, and fees

    A UPEPA appeal Utah practitioners can plan around: deadlines, who may appeal, the steps after a ruling, and how attorney fees work.
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    • UPEPA
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    • Attorney Fees
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    • Deadlines
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    • SLAPP
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    • Criminal Appeals

    Abatement on appeal in Utah: what happens when a criminal defendant dies

    Abatement on appeal in Utah leaves the conviction intact, while federal courts erase the case. Learn where the rules differ.
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    • Constitutional Issues
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    • Abatement
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    • Procedural
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    • Statutory Interpretation
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    • Environmental & Land Use Appeals

    Trial by Consent in Utah: When Silence Adds a Claim

    Trial by consent in Utah can add an unpleaded issue when counsel stays silent. Boyer v. Rubin shows what to object to and when.
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    • Practice Tip
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    • Bench Trials
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    • Issue Preservation
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    • Property
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    • Criminal Appeals

    Justice Court Appeal in Utah: New Trial, 28 Days

    You were convicted of a misdemeanor or an infraction in a Utah justice court, and the result feels wrong. Can anything be done, and how fast? A justice court appeal in Utah is real, but it does not look like…
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    • Deadlines
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    • Justice Court
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    • Plea
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    • Procedural
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    • Sentencing
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    • Civil Appeals

    Responding to an appeal in Utah after you won at trial: what happens next

    Won at trial and the other side appealed? Learn how responding to an appeal in Utah works, from cross-appeals to the appellee brief.
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    • Deadlines
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    • Attorney Fees
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    • Judgment
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    • Stays
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    • Criminal Appeals

    Missed a Criminal Appeal Deadline in Utah? Here are 3 options you still have

    The sentencing is over, the weeks slipped by, and now someone tells you the deadline to appeal has passed. That news lands hard. If you are facing a missed appeal deadline in Utah, the honest answer is this: it may…
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    • Deadlines
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    • Jurisdiction
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    • Post-Conviction
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    • Procedural
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    • Record Review

    Preservation of issues for appeal in Utah: what if my lawyer didn’t object?

    The verdict is in, and you keep replaying the trial. A witness said something that should never have come in. The judge made a ruling that seemed plainly wrong. And your trial lawyer said nothing. Now one question won’t let…
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    • Error
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    • Ineffective Assistance of Counsel
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    • Issue Preservation