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By Kelly M. Neumann, a Michigan personal injury attorney and Principal Attorney at Neumann Law Group. Last updated September 8, 2026. Michigan’s no-fault act limits when an injured person can recover noneconomic damages from the driver who caused a crash. The limit is often described as a body of case law that has to be…

By Kelly M. Neumann, a Michigan criminal defense attorney and Principal Attorney at Neumann Law Group. Last updated September 8, 2026. Michigan’s DWI and sobriety courts exist because a second or third operating-while-intoxicated conviction carries license consequences that ordinary sentencing cannot soften. The program trades intensive supervision for a driving privilege that would otherwise be…

By Kelly M. Neumann, a Michigan estate planning attorney and Principal Attorney at Neumann Law Group. Last updated September 8, 2026. A Michigan will can leave a surviving spouse nothing, and the spouse can decline to accept that. The elective share is the mechanism, and it is smaller and more conditional than its reputation. Three…

By Kelly M. Neumann, a Michigan Social Security Disability attorney and Principal Attorney at Neumann Law Group. Last updated September 8, 2026. The date a Michigan Social Security Disability claim is approved has very little to do with the date its benefits begin. Three rules fix that starting point, all of them counted backward from…

By Kelly M. Neumann, a Michigan Social Security Disability attorney and Principal Attorney at Neumann Law Group. Last updated September 8, 2026. Some Michigan Social Security Disability denials are issued before anyone at the agency reads a medical record. The claim fails on insurance coverage or on earnings, two questions Social Security answers first, and…

By Kelly M. Neumann, a Michigan Social Security Disability attorney and Principal Attorney at Neumann Law Group. Last updated September 9, 2026. A letter from a treating physician stating that a patient is disabled and cannot work is the document Michigan claimants most often bring to a first meeting, and it is the document Social…

By Kelly M. Neumann, a Michigan Social Security Disability attorney and Principal Attorney at Neumann Law Group. Last updated September 8, 2026. A Michigan Social Security Disability hearing comes with a filing deadline that arrives in the hearing notice and is easy to read past. Written evidence not already in the file has to be…

By Kelly M. Neumann, a Michigan criminal defense attorney and Principal Attorney at Neumann Law Group. Last updated September 8, 2026. Michigan’s Clean Slate legislation widened who can clear a criminal record and added a track that operates without an application at all. The word people reach for is expungement, and the statute’s word is…

By Kelly M. Neumann, a Michigan Social Security Disability attorney and Principal Attorney at Neumann Law Group. Last updated September 9, 2026. A Michigan veteran’s Social Security earnings record can be worth more than the pay history behind it. For active-duty service through 2001, the regulations add wages that were never actually paid, and those…

By Kelly M. Neumann, a Michigan Social Security Disability attorney and Principal Attorney at Neumann Law Group. Last updated September 9, 2026. Two Michigan Social Security Disability denials have nothing to do with whether the claimant is disabled. One follows a missed consultative examination. The other follows a prescribed treatment the claimant did not pursue,…