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By Kelly M. Neumann, a Michigan family law attorney and Principal Attorney at Neumann Law Group. Last updated September 30, 2026. Michigan sets three separate statutory thresholds before a divorce judgment can be entered. They govern where the parties have lived, what the complaint is allowed to say, and how much time has to pass…

By Kelly M. Neumann, a Michigan criminal defense attorney and Principal Attorney at Neumann Law Group. Last updated September 28, 2026. Michigan’s drug treatment courts offer intensive supervision and treatment in place of a conventional sentence, and for the right case they change the outcome substantially. The statute that creates them is equally clear that…

By Kelly M. Neumann, a Michigan criminal defense attorney and Principal Attorney at Neumann Law Group. Last updated September 26, 2026. Michigan lets a court take a guilty plea in a first domestic violence case, hold off on entering a judgment, and dismiss the charge if the person completes probation. The relief is real and…

By Kelly M. Neumann, a Michigan estate planning attorney and Principal Attorney at Neumann Law Group. Last updated September 23, 2026. Lists of estate planning mistakes tend to be lists of things that are unwise. The ones that actually cost Northern Michigan families money are narrower than that, because each corresponds to a specific sentence…

By Kelly M. Neumann, a Michigan criminal defense attorney and Principal Attorney at Neumann Law Group. Last updated September 21, 2026. The Holmes Youthful Trainee Act lets a Michigan court accept a guilty plea from a young defendant without entering a judgment of conviction, and dismiss the case entirely if the person completes the term.…

By Kelly M. Neumann, a Michigan personal injury attorney and Principal Attorney at Neumann Law Group. Last updated September 19, 2026. One collision can produce claims that expire in different years, and the periods are set by different statutes that do not cross-reference each other. A single crash can leave one claim live and another…

By Kelly M. Neumann, a Michigan estate planning attorney and Principal Attorney at Neumann Law Group. Last updated September 17, 2026. The claim made for a Lady Bird deed is that it keeps a home out of probate, off the Medicaid ledger, and under the property tax cap all at once. Each of those results…

By Kelly M. Neumann, a Michigan estate planning attorney and Principal Attorney at Neumann Law Group. Last updated September 15, 2026. Most writing about protecting assets from Medicaid concerns what a family does in advance. Less is written about what Michigan protects after the fact, for a family that did no planning at all, and…

By Kelly M. Neumann, a Michigan Social Security Disability attorney and Principal Attorney at Neumann Law Group. Last updated September 12, 2026. A psychiatric chart in Michigan will often describe a patient’s depression as moderate, and the same word appears in Social Security’s disability listings with a different job. The listings rate limitation on a…

By Kelly M. Neumann, a Michigan personal injury attorney and Principal Attorney at Neumann Law Group. Last updated September 11, 2026. Michigan’s no-fault act abolished most tort liability arising from the use of an insured motor vehicle, and then carved out a handful of exceptions. One of them lets a driver recover vehicle damage directly…