Inflation has been in the news lately, with impacts on everything from the price of a gallon of milk to the price of a gallon of gas. But consumer goods aren’t the only things affected by inflation: your tax rate is, too. It’s a good idea to unde…
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If you could travel through time, it probably wouldn’t be to visit your future self next April as you do your taxes. But next April, you might wish for the ability to travel back in time to 2021 and take some actions to make that tax preparation ea…
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The issue of adult guardianship caught the attention of many Americans this year amidst the drama over Britney Spears’s 13-year guardianship and the singer’s effort to take control over her life and decisions back from her father. Few guardianshi…
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From time to time, a client will call our law office asking about homestead protection, and whether they and their home are eligible. What is homestead protection, and why might it matter to you? The short answer is that homestead protection could pu…
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You probably wouldn’t buy a car that didn’t have an engine or build a kitchen that didn’t have a stove in it. In fact, people might think there was something wrong with you if you did. Cars and kitchens have functions: to transport people and p…
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When you hear the term “sibling rivalry,” you probably picture kids squabbling over who got the bigger piece of pie or jockeying for a favored seat in the car on a road trip. Those fights may irritate parents, but they are momentary and usually e…
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The great majority of the time, individuals involved in the probate process behave diligently and honorably, and any mistakes are innocent and readily resolved. Unfortunately, from time to time, people behave dishonorably with the intention of enrich…
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Often, when a dispute arises over a deceased person’s estate, someone disappointed in their share will accuse someone who received more of having exerted “undue influence” over the deceased. What is undue influence, and how do you prove that so…
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Benjamin Franklin famously said, “In this world, nothing can be said to be certain except death and taxes.” The saying is true as far as it goes. But where death and taxes meet, change seems to happen with every administration, and not always for…
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People often refer to an estate having to “go through probate” as if probate were a single, standardized process. In fact, there is more than one type of probate. In Michigan, there is formal and informal probate. The formal probate process is ov…
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