Law Blog

Times have changed. In 2014, we now live in a fully digital world; computers are literally everywhere. Technology changes faster than we can keep up with, and we may not realize how that can affect our estate.

Recently, I came across an article in the Probate Lawyer Blog that focused on the deteriorating health of celebrity actress Amanda Bynes, and how her parents were eventually forced to seek a guardianship and a conservatorship for their famous daughter.

An interesting book was released earlier this summer, “Marriage Markets” by June Carbone and Naomi Cahn, which describes the state of marriage in our modern American society.

Especially among the “older” generation, an Up North cabin or cottage symbolizes family unity over time. The family cottage is a place for the family to gather, year after year, to enjoy nature and bond as a family unit.

So you’ve decided to take that fateful step and file a complaint for divorce. Prior to doing so, consider these tips, mostly taken from USA Today reporter Kim Kommando’s article reprinted in the Freep.

As undergraduate and graduate students from the past decade turn to marriage now that their education is complete, many are turning-up with a significant debt load. Should this be a consideration in drafting a prenuptial agreement?

A secret memorandum that a concerned father passed to his daughters some 13-years prior to his death may have saved their sizable inheritance.

Even the thought of some of our colleagues, cornering the little children of their clients in a conference room in order to elicit a parental preference, causes recurring nightmares.

A case that caught our attention from the Michigan Court of Appeals last month deserves mention in this blog. The case comes from the St. Clair County’s Family Court; the family court judge that ruled in Mother’s favor to allow a significant modification of the parenting schedule was reversed by the Court of Appeals.

Over the past few months, Paul Walker and Philip Seymour Hoffman both died in sudden and unexpected ways. The latter, from an apparent overdose of heroin in January after decades of straight living; the former, ironically, in a flaming high-speed car crash last November.