For those in Michigan who are considering filing for divorce, the manner in which that process is approached can have a great deal of impact on the final outcome. While many divorce cases from decades past were handled in front of a court, there...
Could you handle raising and supporting 27 of your own biological children? A man from a neighboring state thinks that he's handling it, although there's a recent report indicating his arrest for child support related charges. In Michigan and...
Did you ever notice that enormous success is sometimes followed or accompanied by enormous heartache? That must be the case for the enormously successful CEO of retail giant Best Buy. It's not a Michigan case but the principles are the same....
Although this blog is not interested in being a commercial plug for lawyers, every so often it helps to keep the role and value of the legal professional in its proper context. And, it's valid to ask whether it's necessary to have legal ...
Generally, a spouse with higher income and greater earning capacity may be ordered to pay alimony to the ex-spouse who makes significantly less. In Michigan and other states, there are numerous factors weighed by the court prior to entering an...
Where parents are unable to settle their custody and support issues amicably, these problems can be litigated off and on for years after the divorce is final. One example is from a case in a state other than Michigan but the applicable legal...
It appears that one child support enforcement agency in a neighboring state is taking a softer, kinder view toward the child support system and how to get parents to pay their obligations. It's called a Child Support Solutions event and it...
When a billionaire reportedly pays the largest divorce settlement in history in the dissolution of his second marriage, his third marriage will include a prenuptial agreement signed by the new spouse. Rupert Murdoch made sure that Wendi Deng ...
We discussed in the last blog how you may expect to suffer certain normal tribulations that tend to haunt people going through a divorce. This blog is based on a report by a prominent psychologist and life coach who takes the analysis a step or...
For those considering a divorce, you can be assured that you'll face certain obstacles and suffer through many unwanted experiences. It's in the nature of the beast, and you'll get used to taking the bad with the good. But always keep in mind...
Some things should be taken care of prior to completion of the divorce or they may come back to haunt one of the parties for years to come. When people get divorced in Michigan or anywhere else in the country, one of the divorcing parties will...
Generally, when a child goes to another state to visit the noncustodial parent for a scheduled visitation the child must return to the home state when the visitation ends. The same rule applies internationally: if the child travels from one...
The question is whether anger is better to hold onto during and after divorce or whether it's ultimately self-destructive. Whether you're getting a divorce in Michigan or elsewhere, you're going to experience some predictable psychological and...
A media mogul worth many billions of dollars can't generally be pinned down as a predictable kind of person. That's probably true of Rupert Murdoch, the head of the multi-billion dollar media conglomerate known as the News Corporation. He surprised...
Social networking has been touted as necessary to a myriad of activities in modern life, including to achieve business success, to remain 'in the loop' among the in crowd and to find a job, along with engaging optimally in dozens of other work ...
How does a person succeed in getting an amicable divorce instead of being drug through the hot fires of a contested War of the Roses? One family law professional proposes a few guidelines to keep a divorce in Michigan and other states on the...
Some people want to have their cake and eat it too. That might be a pretty good depiction of Brooke Mueller, Charlie Sheen's ex-wife and mother of his two 4-year-old twin boys. The case is not from Michigan but is instructive with respect to...
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There's an excess of remedies that courts use to enforce support orders against tardy parents, mostly dads. Conversely, enforcement remedies for fathers who are being wrongly denied access to their children is woefully inadequate. The...
There's a product for everything and everyone these days, and if there isn't, it's probably on the way. Now even the stress and emotional frustration that many experience while going through a divorce is subject to a feel-good remedy. If...