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The Corpus Delicti rule mandates that a prosecutor prove that a crime has been committed before a person can be convicted of committing a crime. A dead body is a critical component and establishes the corpus delicti of a murder case.

The Michigan Court of Appeals ruled earlier this month that a court-appointed guardian of a minor child cannot prevent contact between the child and his Grandmother.

With all the attention that same-sex marriage has garnered over the past few years, could the focus on same-sex divorce be far behind? The divorce cases, with their attendant issues, are just beginning to manifest.

This was certainly in the works since last summer. Michigan Treasurer Andy Dillon resigned yesterday in the wake of continuing media scrutiny of his high-conflict divorce.

This would have made a great appeal had the accused not pled to a lesser charge. A district judge from Brighton accepted a plea from a woman who moved from the passenger seat to the drivers seat of her drunk boyfriend’s truck at the command of a police officer

An adult guardianship is a probate court proceeding that protects an individual that cannot take care of his own affairs by appointing a fiduciary -a guardian or conservator- to care for the incapacitated individual.

…is that your family will fight over the money in your estate. This appears to be happening right now in New York to the deceased multimillionairess Huguette Clark.

There are two ways we have seen student loan debt affect divorce proceedings. One scenario is where the divorcing spouse, usually a newly-minted professional, has accrued a significant debt balance well into the six-figures; as much as $200,000 in the case of a medical degree.

When our SCOTUS recently struck-down the Clinton-era Defense of Marriage Act, and also held that California’s prohibition on same-sex marriage was unconstitutional, proponents of same-sex marriage understandably hailed the decisions as a victory. Now that the dust has began to settle in these seminal cases, some of the fall-out is going to affect the inevitable divorce proceedings arising from failed same-sex relationships.

Now here’s a sticky one. What does an unmarried couple do with their fertilized and cryopreserved embryos when they break-up?