Your Comprehensive Guide to Family Law

Now more than ever, you need the right resources to be effective and efficient. Michigan Family Law is the must-have book to successfully practice family law. This book walks you through every major issue, while also providing guidance for issues on the rise: interstate and international custody issues, change of domicile, parental alienation claims, and joint legal custody disputes involving vaccinations, schools, and religious disputes.

Navigate the 2020 discovery rules with expert insight and 35 sample interrogatories. Easily find fast solutions with 150+ checklists, forms, motions, and practice tips. Take away more county-specific information. Plus, get the critical analysis of both Michigan and federal law you've come to expect. With this book, you will be able to:

• Draft pleadings that will best demonstrate your client's desired outcomes
• Recommend strategies for enforcing and modifying out-of-state orders
• Develop creative strategies to child custody and parenting time problems
• Successfully prepare and handle a motion in front of a Friend of the Court referee or judge
• Advise clients on the process to establish and revoke paternity
• Navigate cases involving Indian children and military families
• Set up your practice and choose an appropriate billing structure for your clients

Highlights of the latest update include:

• Cases on child protective proceedings, best interests factors, stepparent adoptions, paternity, extended foster care services, child support, parenting time, and established custodial environment
• Cases on personal protection orders, separate maintenance, de novo hearings, and abortion
• Information on military divorces, including serving U.S. citizens overseas and forms for records authentication for the Army and Air Force
• Updated numbers for the dependent care tax credit, the child credit, and other dependent credits