The recent audit of Michigan's Child Protective Services (CPS) revealed significant shortcomings in the agency's ability to protect children, with delays in investigations and failure to follow ...

Family lawyers have a grim term for January: divorce month. January is a time of New Year's resolutions and fresh starts. It's also known as high season for marital splits, although that reputation ...

Trusts are a cornerstone of estate planning, offering a versatile means of managing and transferring wealth across generations. For married couples, trusts provide a way to gift assets to their ...

Multiple studies and respected authors agree – divorce is one of the most stressful life events any person can experience. After 34 years of practice in the family law field, I have represented many ...

Ending a marriage can be devastating to your finances if not handled correctly. June 6, 2007 Special to ABCNEWS.com — -- On the whole people take great comfort in permanence and regularity. No ...

The case for a new ritual that acknowledges this strange, tender moment of rupture. By Leslie Jamison When I married, we didn’t have a registry. We’d already combined two households; we had plenty of ...

This is about something that I see a couple of times a year in the trenches of litigation, but rarely seems to make it to an appellate opinion so that most folks are unaware that this goes on in the ...