What’s the difference between civil and criminal court cases?
Criminal laws are the rules that apply when someone commits a crime such as assault, murder, robbery and other kinds of crimes. After a person is arrested and charged with a crime that goes to a criminal court. Civil law refers to almost all other disputes and the rules that apply when one person sues another person like a business or agency. This can cover a housing case such as eviction or foreclosure, a family case such as divorce or custody consumer problems such as debt or bankruptcy. Both the Civil and Criminal Court Cases have different powers and the judges can punish you for breaking the law by sending you to jail. Civil court judges can order you to pay money or a fine or make decisions about your family or your home. What happens in criminal court? In criminal court the government files a case against someone for committing a crime; the person accused of committing the crime is called the defendant. The government must prove that the defendant is guilty beyond a