Following is a divorce scenario that rings true for some impending exes in Michigan and elsewhere. To wit: Your spouse consistently racked up purchases on a credit card during marriage in keeping with someone who won a national lottery. Alas, no winning ticket every...
Bloomfield Hills Michigan Family Law Blog
It’s often real: the post-divorce “fresh start”
There is a veritable avalanche of cascading articles and reports on divorce in the United States. Sources providing advice and would-be takeaways range from pure celebrity fodder to notably reasoned pieces that objectively seek to convey what marital dissolution is...
Interplay between custody/visitation and parental substance abuse
It has literally been intoned a million times, with its utterance underscoring what judges in Michigan and across the county view as a bedrock legal principle where children are concerned. That is this: Any outcome affecting children in a family law matter must...
Perhaps your best weapon in divorce: civility
The Michigan divorce process is not always tinged with amicability and good will between spouses, of course. After all, it is something less than matrimonial bliss that spurs a couple to end their marriage in the first place. Soon-to-be exes often – and, candidly,...
Protecting your business as a divorcing Michigan spouse
You’ve unquestionably got some valid concerns if you are a divorcing Michigan spouse who just happens to own a successful business. We prominently note those concerns at the established Michigan family law firm of Hauer & Snover in Bloomfield Hills. We underscore...
Relevant considerations for older divorcing couples
“Until death do us part” is still uttered as a vows-ending mantra in legions of Michigan marriages and other betrothals across the country. But it doesn’t command quite the clout and “never deviate from this directive” force it once had, does it? Readers need do...
Key points concerning Michigan spousal support (alimony)
It is of course not uniformly the case that divorcing Michigan spouses exit their marriages on a financially equal footing. Notwithstanding that state law mandates a fair division of assets between splitting partners, one divorcing spouse sometimes has a financial...
Marital contracts assuming prominence for career women
A longstanding perception surrounding prenuptial agreements is that their negotiation and execution is commonly driven by well-heeled males whose less affluent prospective wives are now marrying into money. Indeed, that scenario does spell a common reality in the...
Your Michigan prenup: What can it cover, and will it be enforceable?
Some media pieces and commentary spotlighting prenuptial agreements spend significant time addressing the historical journey they have made from a checkered past to current respectability. It is admittedly the case that prenups were once skewered by a sizable...
Pandemic-linked challenge: spotlight on Michigan child support
Child support in a Michigan divorce is far from being determined via a cookie-cutter formula that is routinely applicable in all cases. In fact, support outcomes are highly variable and dependent on circumstances that are flatly unique in every instance. A court will...
