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A Michigan man was recently placed in handcuffs by state police officers after refusing to return his four-year-old boy to his mother. Mark Petrick was arrested in Kingsley some three months after he was scheduled to return the boy to his mother in Wisconsin, according to the Traverse City Record Eagle. The child’s mother told […]
In Michigan, child support orders are often set based on several factors that include the child’s needs and parents’ ability to pay. Although Detroit Pistons star Blake Griffin makes roughly $35 million a year, he has poured cold water on claims he’s shelling out $258,000 per month in child support. Sports blog Sportscasting.com recently ran […]
Michigan’s Approach to Support Calculations During Unemployment Not surprisingly, unemployment is on the rise. If you recently became unemployed or your income decreased, will your child or spousal support be reduced? Most Michigan family law attorneys will answer “yes”; we would want to be more careful and say “maybe”. Of course, we’ll explain why our answer is […]
Excitement is building for the kids. Costume shopping is happening. But what if this is the first year that you are a single parent? Most parents don’t really think much about Halloween when they are deciding on a parenting time schedule. Does your parenting time schedule address Halloween as a holiday? It could; maybe it should! If it does […]
Our Grand Rapids high-asset divorce attorney knows that going through a divorce can be stressful and challenging, even when spouses agree to work together to end their marriage. But according to a new study from the University of Michigan, it can also have a crippling effect on your prospects for retirement. Divorce is the top reason that Americans raid […]
At Kraayeveld Family Law, our Grand Rapids child custody attorneys advise parents in child custody and a wide range of related family law matters. Our team has seen just how contentious these matters can get when one or both parents refuse to take a collaborative approach to resolving these cases. The recent arrest of three people accused […]
Alarming Statistics and Who is at Risk A recent article in Psychology Today provided that the rate of suicide for people who are divorced or separated is 2.4 times greater than those who are married. More surprising is the huge difference in the suicide rate among divorced men compared to divorced women. Divorced men were nine times more like […]
Parties often audio or video record when they anticipate a divorce or custody dispute. But is that allowed? And even if Michigan law allows you to record conversations, will it be beneficial? Our Grand Rapids divorce lawyers are here to provide you with answers. What is Michigan’s Law on Recording Your Spouse? Under certain circumstances, but not always, when both […]
Our Domestic Violence Attorneys Are Here to Help You Escape Your Bad Situation Kent County Circuit Court records reflect that the court issued 2,400 Personal Protection Orders, sometimes called Restraining Orders, in 2017. That’s the number of people who felt threatened or harassed or were attacked by someone. For abuse to be ongoing, the abuser […]
You were in love, and then you married. You bought a house together because your first child was on the way. Life became busy, and suddenly you realize that you have had a lot of conflicts, and those conflicts are not being resolved. Eventually, conflicts turn into fights, and here you are: reading a divorce attorney’s blog on […]