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What if You Can’t Afford Fines & Costs?
Debtor’s Prison apparently has been eliminated in Michigan following a significant change to the applicable court rule.
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Frugality Hurts Credit Score for Elderly
Last week, we came across an article in the Sunday NYT Business section about an elderly individual whose practiced frugality damaged his credit score.
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Grandparents Raising Grandchildren Because of Drugs
Several websites have cropped-up devoted to grandparents placed in the tough and unenviable position of raising their grandchildren because their own children are incapable of doing so due to drug addiction.
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Tax Considerations in Divorce
Like death, taxes are a part of life; a certainty. When going through a divorce, there are significant tax considerations to take into account when negotiating a property and support settlement.
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What Is a Funeral Representative?
This post introduces the reader to a funeral representative; a new type of fiduciary recently created by statute.
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Family Court Judge Presided Over His Own Divorce
Just when, really, we thought we had seen it all, here comes this report out of Texas. While the events transpired nearly 4-years ago, the fall-out for the transgressing judge took place just last month.
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Same-Sex Custody Dispute
Now that marriage equality is a fundamental constitutional right, same-sex custody disputes have a family court framework for resolution. This is not the case, however, for the legion of unmarried same-sex couples that have children.
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Minor in Possession of Alcohol May Be Reduced to Civil Infraction
The Michigan Senate is considering whether to transform the crime of minor in possession of alcohol from a misdemeanor to a civil infraction. The legislature is addressing an age-old problem: what to do about minors that drink alcohol?
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DIY Divorce Videos
70 percent of the divorce proceedings conducted in the Wayne County Circuit Court’s Family Court Division are conducted with at least one party in propria persona.
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Secret Baptism Leads to Criminal Contempt
This interesting family law case springs from Livingston County. The Livingston family court judge’s criminal contempt ruling was reversed by the Michigan Court of Appeals last month based on a Due Process analysis.