Month: February 2022

While divorce laws have been amended significantly to reflect changes in socio-cultural norms and shifting attitudes towards women in marriages and parenthood, it is nonetheless still important for women to understand their rights during a divorce in Michigan. The key...

When parents in Michigan are both careful to provide their monthly portion of the child support obligation under the state’s income shares model, it may not be necessary to keep track of child support payments other than through bank accounts or direct pay documents....

Child custody cases can be extremely complicated in Michigan, and co-parenting can be difficult and contentious. There are many different kinds of situations in which parents who share custody and parenting time disagree about issues concerning the child, from matters...

When parents go through a divorce or breakup, or any other time a Michigan court decides a child custody case, it will not typically give sole custody or parenting time to a party who is not one of the child’s parents unless there is an adoption. Grandparents can have...