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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...
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...
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...
Michigan family law authorities adopt the common national stance that children in divorce are generally best served post-dissolution by continued meaningful contact with both parents. Michigan statutory law underscores the possibility of joint parental custody, which...
Consider it a second chance. That is how increasingly more couples in Michigan and nationally view postnuptial agreements after they contemplated executing yet ultimately declined to craft a prenuptial contract prior to marriage. How does a postnuptial agreement...
Michigan law requires that divorcing spouses divide marital wealth equitably. In a word, that means fairly. Although a fair property distribution doesn't necessarily mean a close-to-precise accounting, it will turn out in most cases that asset division ultimately...
There are of course lots of reasons why Michigan divorces involving significant assets are comparatively complex. But it all starts with the simple reality surrounding wealth, doesn’t it? When splitting spouses are mutually focused on divorce-linked property division,...
If you’re like legions of other Michigan residents, you have a sizable online presence. That is, you are actively engaged on social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and other platforms that dominate the Internet. Lots of people already know that. In...
Some areas of the law are relatively static and often rigidly applied. Other legal subject matter is more fluid and complex, with ample doses of judicial discretion mixing in with statutory dictates and case law holdings. Alimony is a case in point, which we note at...
Many articles on marital contracts these days (prenuptial and postnuptial agreements) get straight to the point stressing a couple important details. Here’s one: Contrary to a longstanding and lingering belief, such agreements hardly merit a conclusive view that their...
