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Where Should Your File Your Divorce or Custody Case?
When a relationship breaks down, one or the other parent often has to make a move. Whether one partner goes to another county to live

When, How, and Why to Send Out Your Press Release
Small business owners love to see their names in the papers – physically or online. But getting noticed by journalists doesn’t usually happen by accident.

5 Steps Toward Building Your Niche Practice
It’s hard to stand out when everyone around you does what you do. For a growing number of lawyers, the answer to increased competition has

Cohabiting: Does Common Law Marriage Happen in Michigan?
Statistics say that couples are getting married later in life. Many, if not most, couples choose to live together before their weddings. Others, never bother

Big Brief Due? Give Yourself a Mini-Retreat
What do you do when you have a big brief due? Procrastinate until the last minute? Work on it off-and-on through the week? Find out

Sorry, You Can’t Use that Cool Picture You Found Online
When you are blogging online, a picture can bring the topic home and connect with readers intellectually or emotionally, not to mention improving your social

Michigan Court Hangs Same-Sex Custody Rights on Marriage, Again
Relationships start and end every day. That’s true no matter what your gender or sexual orientation. But until 2015, legal marriage – and by extension

Making the Most of Case Summaries on Your Law Blog
Case summaries from recently published court decisions (yes, even the unpublished ones), are a rich source of content for your law blog. But they can

Why Case Summaries are the Best, and Worst for Your Law Blog
If you are writing a law blog, you may not have thought of looking at recently published cases for your inspiration. Case studies can be

Will Michigan Follow Utah’s Free Range Parenting Law?
How much supervision of a child is enough? Can there ever be too much? Parents – and professionals – differ on the the best parenting