A prenuptial agreement, or "premarital agreement," is a contract agreed to prior to marriage. These agreements can be wide or limited in scope meaning that they can try to anticipate everything or focus on one narrow issue, like who gets the hamster. These agreements...

Month: December 2015
Drug charges are not limited to drugs
Everybody knows the drugs that are illegal like cocaine, heroin and methamphetamines. However, what you may not know is that drug charges can go much further than the drugs themselves. Drug paraphernalia charges are levied whenever police seize items that are...
Don’t let office party libations turn to litigation
If you are like many Detroit employers, you might be hosting or attending a business party today. Maybe you already had your office party. In that case, hopefully, you followed the tips that this post covers regarding how to try to avoid behavior that could result in...
Michigan judge facing difficult custody question
Custody cases are often complex, as both parents via to gain an advantage in the case, each asserting that they would the superior parent. But some cases are more complex than most. A case now pending here in Michigan has to decide the difficult issue of child...
Criminal intent should be explicit in laws
One element of most criminal laws that makes them different from other legal situations is that a prosecutor needs to prove the element of intent. With a breach of a contract, all you have to prove is that there was an offer, acceptance, a breach of the...
“Ignored” handbook subject of NLRB lawsuit against Quicken
All businesses have their own internal operating procedures. In many small businesses, these workplace rules may be unwritten and if you have a question, you may simply ask the owner. For a larger operation, such ad hoc procedures may be too unwieldy and...
Judicial bias is a serious charge
In a contentious divorce case, you may feel every decision by the Michigan family law court is personal and if you have more than one setback in your case, you may start to feel as if the court is biased and basing its decisions on that bias, and not on a fair...
Cyber crime poses a genuine threat to Michigan small businesses
You may own a successful small business here in Michigan and have heard of the cyber attacks on large national companies like Target and Home Depot. And you may think to yourself that it is a good thing that your business is small enough that you don't have to...
School for beer
The craft beer market is a growing industry. From new breweries opening throughout Michigan to the international brewing conglomerates buying regional brewers, as with Heineken's purchase of a 50 percent stake in Lagunitas Brewing or the more recent...