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How Well Do You Know Criminal Law?

Sure, you know what's illegal and what's not. You know how to avoid breaking the law. But do you know the technicalities that can get your case dismissed in court? Do you know what kind of evidence is allowed in your defense and what isn't? Do you know how to effectively cross-examine a witness? If the answer to these questions is no, then you shouldn't be considering defending yourself in court. When a criminal case gets to court, innocence doesn't matter as much as experience with criminal law does. You need an experienced lawyer to help you defend yourself. In this blog, I'll share experiences that can help you understand what is going to happen in court and how to assist in your own defense. But the most important piece of advice I can give you is this: don't go to court without a lawyer.

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How To Successfully Win A SSDI Claim If You Are Living With Schizophrenia

If you are living with schizophrenia and have found you are unable to hold down a steady job due to your mental illness, then you can apply for Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI). To file an SSDI claim, you need to fill out the required application and submit it to the Social Security Administration (SSA) for approval. While this may seem like a simple process, the SSA has a reputation of denying applications for small errors on paperwork and all sorts of other strange reasons.

To ensure your claim for disability is approved, you must do each of these important things:

Seek Out and Comply with Mental Health Treatment

One of the most important things you can do to increase your chances of an approval for your SSDI claim is to seek out medical help for your schizophrenia. You should be seeing a psychiatrist regularly and sharing with them information about how your mental illness is affecting your daily life. This is very important because your doctor's notes are a written record of the progression of your illness and your disability. Since there are no laboratory tests one can do to prove their schizophrenia has worsened, your doctor's records are vital.

Since the negative symptoms of schizophrenia are greatly improved in patients who comply with their regimen of medications, it is vital you take any medications your doctor prescribes. If you refuse to take medication that helps your condition, then the SSA will deny your SSDI claim because you aren't doing everything you can to help your condition improve so you are able to work. 

Request Copies of Your Medical Records

Before you attempt to fill out your SSDI claim application, first request copies of your medical records from your psychiatrist and other medical providers. This step is very important because the SSDI application will ask you for detailed information about all of your past medical history. The copies of your medical records will give you all of the pertinent dates and treatment notes you need to accurately fill out the SSA's paperwork. 

Consider Hiring an Attorney 

In conclusion, since the SSA is known for often denying SSDI claims for small paperwork errors or other such nonsense, you should consider hiring an attorney to file your disability claim. An SSDI lawyer has experience dealing with the bureaucracy of the SSA as it relates to patients with schizophrenia and can help get your claim approved on the first application.

Contact professionals like Horn & Kelley, PC Attorneys at Law to learn more.