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Updates in Michigan Family Law

Updates in Michigan Family Law is a blawg written by Traverse City, Michigan family lawyer Jeanne M. Hannah. Jeanne explores developing Michigan law, and also the following topics of interest: divorce, custody, child support, paternity, domestic abuse, and adoption issues.\r\n\r\n

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Last Entry: March 31, 2011 at 12:07:04

Granholm says "No" to tax on services

Posted on July 12, 2010
Lawyers in Michigan and other businesspersons are heaving a big sigh of relief. Governor Granholm has nixed the idea of taxes on services delivered, such as legal services. You may read the report in the Detroit News here.

Web Tool Helps Veterans Navigate Web Resources

Posted on July 11, 2010
The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) has announced that it has revised its e-VETS Advisor?an interactive, online tool to assist Veterans, Service Members and their families and caregivers to quickly and easily navigate Web-based information on a variety of topics, including education, job training and employment.

Department of Veterans Affairs to ease rules for PTSD claims

Posted on July 09, 2010
Family law attorneys are seeing so much pain in our military families. Iraq-US Soldier Here is some news about veteran's benefits for PTSD that we should send on to our military clients, past and present. Many of them may be aware of this, but it never hurts to make certain.

Currency converter | A helpful tool

Posted on July 08, 2010
Now in Jeanne's Toolkit: A very handy online currency converter. Access this helpful currency converter here.

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Service members | Foreclosures for unpaid homeowner association dues?

Posted on July 04, 2010
As if family law attorneys don't have enough to worry about in taking care of their military clients--and as if our service members don't have enough to worry about--here's a story from National Public Radio ["NPR"] that would not be broadcast if we were talking about just one family...

The Lawyer | Litigant's "Secrets of Internet Search"

Posted on June 29, 2010
Let's face it: More than a quarter of the world's population is online, accessing and sharing information on a 24/7 basis. Therefore, for lawyers and other legal researchers, the Internet has become a NBF ["new best friend]" and is a...

How to keep kids out of the middle of parents' divorce

Posted on June 26, 2010
Every divorcing parent should make it their top priority to keep their children from getting caught in the middle of the conflict of their divorce. Mark A. Wortman, has published a terrific series of articles at his Missouri Divorce & Family Law Blog...

Local sheriff's deputies attend burial service for abandoned dead newborn

Posted on June 24, 2010
The Traverse City Record Eagle reports today that a group of Grand Traverse sheriff's deputies surrounded a miniature burial site at Oakwood Catholic Diocesan Cemetery in Traverse City early Tuesday to offer their final respects to an infant found dead May 14 in a Gladewood Lane backyard...

Kentucky dads enjoy benefits not available to Michigan dads

Posted on June 23, 2010
Kentucky biological dads who learn after a divorce that, in fact, a child is their biological child and not the ex-husband's child have the opportunity to establish parentage through DNA testing, according to a new decision in the Kentucky Supreme Court...

New York on brink of "no fault" divorce

Posted on June 17, 2010
In an Op-Ed piece in the New York Times on June 16, 2010, Stephanie Coontz comments on New York State pending legislation that would, if enacted, let New Yorkers join the rest of the nation in what is called "No-Fault Divorce." What a breath of fresh air that would be...

NPR News Investigations | Brain Wars: How The Military Is Failing Its Wounded

Posted on June 14, 2010
As family law lawyers, we're seeing more marriages failing in military families. Sometimes divorce in the military family is caused by the absence and the growing apart of a couple. Sometimes, it's infidelity on the part of one or both spouses. But more often, it's due to war injuries...

NPR News Investigations | Brain Wars: How The Military Is Failing Its Wounded

Boston Globe takes stand against presumption of joint custody

Posted on June 14, 2010
While supporting the goal of giving fathers a large presence in their children?s lives, the Boston Globe took exception Massachusetts House Bill 1400, which promotes the concept of ?shared parenting.?? The Glove argued that the bill, pending in the MA Joint Committee on the Judiciary, is ?too broad an approach to a challenging issue that demands nuanced, case-by-case decisions based on the best interests of the child,? and rejected the bill as a solution to the argument that fathers aren?t getting fair court hearings.

Location of military service records and how to request them

Posted on June 13, 2010
Discharge There are times when, in a family law case, it is important to have the military personnel records of a service member. Some records from personnel files are available and stored in various locations; some records are of a medial or mental health issue...

Divorce rates for older couples

Posted on June 09, 2010
The New York Times today, writing about the failure of Tipper and Al Gore's 40-year-old marriage said: "From a statistical standpoint, your risk for divorce begins to fall once you?ve passed the 10-year mark. According to Betsey Stevenson, an economist...

The Gratitude Campaign

Posted on June 05, 2010
This video came to me today in an email. Having heard some of the stories, having seen some of the fallout with families, children and the service members themselves, I am always concerned that they are appreciated for their service and their sacrifices...

Protecting privacy | Wiping your copier or telefax hard drive before disposal

Posted on June 05, 2010
Recently, CBS News ran a segment on the horrific breaches in security that have occurred as a result of copy machines being sold, send back to the lessor, etc. without the necessary security wipe of confidential information contained on the hard drive of the machine...

Firewall protection to increase Internet security

Posted on May 25, 2010
Thanks to Scott Bassett, Michigan appellate lawyer extraordinaire, and also a Hacker highly skilled computer tech, knowledgeable about both hardware and software for this tip about the type of protection you should be thinking about to avoid hackers from accessing your computer and/or computer network...

Greater publicity about options

Posted on May 25, 2010
Greater publicity about options available to young mothers who want to legally surrender their children for adoption is provided in a community-based effort to avoid infant deaths such as occurred in several cases locally where newborns have been found abandoned and dead in the Traverse City area...

The Safe Delivery of Newborns Act | Help for young moms & infants

Posted on May 24, 2010
Greater publicity about options available to young mothers who want to legally surrender their children for adoption is provided in a community-based effort to avoid infant deaths such as occurred in several cases locally where newborns have been found abandoned...

Cuts in child care subsidies eliminate some parents' ability to work

Posted on May 24, 2010
Young parents are finding impossible to stay employed for lack of child care assistance. The jobless rate hovers near double digits. 6.7 million people have been unemployed for six months or longer, and yet some states are cutting back child...

Increases in court filing fees

Posted on May 24, 2010
Ben Stevens of the South Carolina Family Law Blog said on May 12th that the South Carolina Legislature is considering drastically increasing certain Court filing fees. For those in South Carolina, the proposed increases would increase filing fees (except for...

Increases in court filing fees

Posted on May 23, 2010
Ben Stevens of the South Carolina Family Law Blog said on May 12th that the South Carolina Legislature is considering drastically increasing certain Court filing fees. For those in South Carolina, the proposed increases would increase filing fees (except for child support enforcement or modification) from $150 to $200; (b) increase the filing fee for Motions from $25 to $75; and (c) would impose a new fee of $50 per deposition...

Legal father allowed to disestablish paternity and end child support

Posted on May 19, 2010
The Michigan appeals court says a man who mistakenly believed he was the father of his girlfriend's son cannot be pursued for child support. The importance of this case from my point of view is that the conclusions of law can be applied to similar cases in which a father was held liable for child support as the "presumptive father" simply because he was married to the mother when the child was born or conceived.

Registration of a Foreign Judgment | Order

Posted on May 16, 2010
The following procedure is available to register a foreign judgment / order such as a subpoena for discovery from a third party, a foreign (out-of-state or foreign country) divorce decree / judgment, an order for DNA testing, etc. Use the form here to register the judgment or order

How will the court deal with separate property claims?

Posted on April 27, 2010
Courts are often called upon to decide whether assets are marital property subject to division in a divorce or whether assets are separate property. In a recent Michigan Court of Appeals case, Maher v Maher, Wife [?W?] claimed that a...

How will the court deal with separate property claims?

Posted on April 26, 2010
Courts are often called upon to decide whether assets are marital property subject to division in a divorce or whether assets are separate property. In a recent Michigan Court of Appeals case, Maher v Maher, Wife [?W?] claimed that a Smith Barney investment account titled to both parties was marital property...

Dividing up the thousands of family photos

Posted on April 21, 2010
Nothing can be more heart-wrenching that the thought that you have to divide the family photos with your former spouse. Do you have to sit and choose them . . . this one for you, this one for me? Web technology makes it easy. There's a company out there that will scan them for you so both parents get a copy of every photo.

A new day coming? Lesbian has standing to seek co-parenting in Wayne County

Posted on April 19, 2010
Wayne County Circuit Judge Kathleen McCarthy ruled last Friday--a ruling that could have broad and precedent-setting legal consequences--that a Downriver woman has standing in her suit to get joint custody of three children she says she raised with the biological mother...

Safety precautions to help parents prevent a fatal error | infant left in car

Posted on April 18, 2010
Gene Weingarten's Washington Post 2010 Pulitzer prize-winning article "Fatal Distraction: Forgetting a Child in the Backseat of a Car Is a Horrifying Mistake. Is It a Crime?" has stimulated some comment on the Internet. Some constructive comment was available on the Post online about how to prevent these fatal or potentially fatal mistakes.

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