
“Can I modify my child support?” Yes. “Should I?” Well, that depends…
We often get calls from people who want to modify the amount of child support they are either paying or collecting. In a surprise to nobody, most people who are paying child support want to pay less and most people receiving child support want to receive more.

What are the “Best Interests of the Child” factors?
When two people with children in common split up, they are thrown into a situation where they have to think about co-parenting with an individual that they no longer want to be around. This can be… challenging to say the least. In a perfect world, parents can learn to communicate and work...

SCOTUS just made it harder for a State to seize property from an individual convicted of a crime.
Good news! The Supreme Court of the United States held today that the Constitution's Eighth Amendment's protections against excessive fines imposed by the government applies equally to the States. State governments seem to have a bad habit of unreasonably taking a person's property after they have been convicted of a crime....

Michigan’s minimum wage set to increase to $9.45 in March 2019.
Michigan's minimum wage is going up as of March 29, 2019. The increase will put an additional 20 cents per hour in the pockets of workers who receive the minimum wage. For people earning minimum wage, any increase is good news, however, $9.45 an hour is still well short of a...