Ann Arbor, MI
Appeals Lawyer at Ann Arbor, MI
Practice Areas: Appeals, Family ... +3 more
OUTCOME: The trial court was affirmed and our client won.
In this divorce case, the former wife file an appeal challenging the trial court's award of award of marital property to the husband. The husuband hired our office to defend the trial court's judgment ... .
OUTCOME: The default judgment was vacated. My client won.
Client's wife wanted a divorce. She told him that she would "be fair" and "take care of it" and that he did not need to hire a lawyer or appear in court. He believed her. She then obtained a default ... judgment awarding herself all of the parties' assets and assigning him all of the parties' debts. He then hired my office to appeal.
OUTCOME: Our client prevailed.
The City of Kalamazoo filed a complaint for injunctive and declaratory relief seeking to prevent the Michigan Department of Corrections from locating a new community corrections center on the grounds o ... f a psychiatric hospital after the DOC had received funds under an appropriations act requiring the DOC to first obtain approval of the placement by the local governing body.In the first appeal, a panel of the Michigan Court of Appeals held that the appropriations bill was constitutional under the Title-Object Clause of the state constitution, and therefore validly placed a condition on defendant's use of appropriations for community corrections facilities, and that the trial court had erred in dismissing the city's complaint.On remand, the trial court improperly revisited the issue of legislative intent and ruled that the DOC's authority to control the placement of the community corrections center was not subject to the express condition contained in the appropriations bill, failing to follow the law of the case established in the city's first appeal.In this second appeal, the Michigan Court of Appeals held that no exception to the Law of the Case Doctrine applied because there was no change in the relevant law and a "change" in the language of the appropriations acts referred to in the trial court's opinion occurred before the initial decision of the appellate court. The judgment of the trial court, which dismissed the city's action against the department of corrections for declaratory and injunctive relief, was reversed.
OUTCOME: The Court of Appeals entered an order in favor of our client.
The parties had entered a settlement agreement and consent judgment of divorce several years earlier expressly providing for nonmodifiable spousal support. In 2014, the former husband sought to reduce ... his spousal support which was already substantially in arrears claiming that spousal support remained modifiable because the consent judgment had not included a separate, statement that MCL 552.28 had been waived. The trial court held that the support was nonmodifiable. The former husband appealed. On appeal, the trial court was affirmed and the Court of Appeals entered an order in favor of our client.
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