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Former President Trump's damages trial in the New York civil fraud case has put the enforcement tool of receiverships in the daily lexicon. As Trump's damages trial gets cranked up this week, we examine the use of this tool in the family court context to enforce a divorce property settlement.

You have been charged with a felony. One of your first court dates is a probable cause conference. We break it down for you in this post.

With the ubiquity of guns in the United States, are domestic violence offenders disqualified from exercising their right to bear arms pursuant to the Second Amendment? The SCOTUS will decide this question during its current term; the case has garnered much attention across the nation.

Divorces are stressful but a high-conflict divorce can be torturous and brutally expensive. This post explores techniques to keep the temperature down in your divorce proceeding.

Retired Superbowl-winning right tackle featured in the movie Blind Side seeks to terminate a conservatorship he claims he did not know existed. When are conservatorships appropriate?

The Michigan Supreme Court expanded the equitable-parent doctrine to include the non-biological parent of a same-sex couple. Is such an expansion justified?

Aretha Franklin's decedent estate will contest was decided by a jury in the Oakland County Probate Court this week. Good example of the importance of solid estate planning.

The SCOTUS has agreed to take a look at a case that pits government requlation of firearms against an individual's right to bear arms. Does it matter that the individual in question is under a civil restraining order.

As more people invest in digital currency, issues are arising when they die with crypto holdings. How do you transfer those holdings after death.

When a parent has a valid medical marijuana certification, a family court cannot condition that parent's parenting time on clean drug screens. We have seen both sides of this coin in the family courts.