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As a Public Administrator, I have seen this issue come up from time to time: a person deemed incompetent and in need of a professional fiduciary to manage the protected individual’s affairs is married...

The photo at left notwithstanding, Bode Miller has picked-up several Olympic skiing medals in both Salt Lake City and Vancouver over the past decade; he is currently training for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Japan..

When a police officer has good reason to stop someone on the street to ask a basic question like, “what is your name?” or, “what are you doing?”, he has a right not to receive a bullet for an answer.

Having represented hundreds of married couples, we have seen plenty of them present to us for a divorce with the proverbial separate bank accounts. It seems there is a correlation between a separate bank account and a separate heart.

There is no doubt that a divorce proceeding affects any professional’s work routine; that includes, of course, corporate executives.

These days it is nearly universal that texting while driving is a violation of the motor vehicle code, or at least a local ordinance, in the jurisdiction through which you are passing. Now, some law makers are considering whether a person that texts to someone they know is driving should be proscribed conduct as well.

The Corpus Delicti rule mandates that a prosecutor prove that a crime has been committed before a person can be convicted of committing a crime. A dead body is a critical component and establishes the corpus delicti of a murder case.

The Michigan Court of Appeals ruled earlier this month that a court-appointed guardian of a minor child cannot prevent contact between the child and his Grandmother.

With all the attention that same-sex marriage has garnered over the past few years, could the focus on same-sex divorce be far behind? The divorce cases, with their attendant issues, are just beginning to manifest.

This was certainly in the works since last summer. Michigan Treasurer Andy Dillon resigned yesterday in the wake of continuing media scrutiny of his high-conflict divorce.