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Author: James W. Kraayeveld

How Domestic Violence Victims Sometimes Lose Child Custody

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  Today, October 10, is Mental Health Awareness Day.  October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month.   These two subjects often intersect; sometimes with disastrous results. Let’s explore. In a domestic abuse situation, the physical abuse is frequently accompanied by emotional abuse.  To prevent the victim from reporting the abuse, the abuser […]

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The Price of SnapChat

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The Michigan Court of Appeals issued an interesting opinion yesterday.  As you may know, the Court of Appeals reviews a lower court’s ruling to determine whether the judge followed Michigan law.   At the trial level, one judge rules on the matter; at the Court of Appeals level, three judges review […]

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Lessons to Be Learned from a Change of Custody that Went Wrong

Appeals

    Yesterday, September 12, 2019, the Court of Appeals issued a published opinion reversing a change of custody that was ordered by an Ionia County judge.  This means that the little three-year-old girl was living with mom, then she moved to dad’s custody, and now due to what we […]

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Back to School Problems

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So much in life is about expectations. We become angry when our expectations aren’t met.  When parents live separated, they usually develop different routines, different lifestyles, and when confronted with the other parent’s differences, frustrations abound.  We’ve listed some of the conflicts we repeatedly saw last school year and what […]

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