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After making it through the holidays, many couples decide a new year is a good time for new beginnings and file for divorce …. including Kim Kardashian and Kanye West. Will their divorce be different than your average West Michigan divorce? How will their divorce be different and how will it be similar? The West/Kardashian couple may […]
Hopefully, you started the divorce process correctly and hired a great attorney who has experience and with whom you formed a great working relationship that allows you to ask questions and allows your attorney to fully learn your intentions. Besides this most important first step, here are some considerations before you sign that Judgment of Divorce. 1. Get […]
If you are considering filing for divorce or were served with divorce papers, the immediate concern is often ‘how much will this cost’? And any competent attorney who can provide you with good results will tell you ‘it depends’.’ So, let’s consider what that phrase means. What Will You Pay the Divorce Attorney? An attorney is paid for […]
A former police officer whose role in the death of a man while being arrested in Minnesota sparked outrage across the country is facing questions about whether his recent divorce is an elaborate scheme to escape the long arm of the law. A judge in Minneapolis recently rejected a proposed divorce settlement between Derek Chauvin and his […]
A Michigan man was recently placed in handcuffs by state police officers after refusing to return his four-year-old boy to his mother. Mark Petrick was arrested in Kingsley some three months after he was scheduled to return the boy to his mother in Wisconsin, according to the Traverse City Record Eagle. The child’s mother told […]
In Michigan, child support orders are often set based on several factors that include the child’s needs and parents’ ability to pay. Although Detroit Pistons star Blake Griffin makes roughly $35 million a year, he has poured cold water on claims he’s shelling out $258,000 per month in child support. Sports blog Sportscasting.com recently ran […]
Michigan’s Approach to Support Calculations During Unemployment Not surprisingly, unemployment is on the rise. If you recently became unemployed or your income decreased, will your child or spousal support be reduced? Most Michigan family law attorneys will answer “yes”; we would want to be more careful and say “maybe”. Of course, we’ll explain why our answer is […]
Excitement is building for the kids. Costume shopping is happening. But what if this is the first year that you are a single parent? Most parents don’t really think much about Halloween when they are deciding on a parenting time schedule. Does your parenting time schedule address Halloween as a holiday? It could; maybe it should! If it does […]
Our Grand Rapids high-asset divorce attorney knows that going through a divorce can be stressful and challenging, even when spouses agree to work together to end their marriage. But according to a new study from the University of Michigan, it can also have a crippling effect on your prospects for retirement. Divorce is the top reason that Americans raid […]
At Kraayeveld Family Law, our Grand Rapids child custody attorneys advise parents in child custody and a wide range of related family law matters. Our team has seen just how contentious these matters can get when one or both parents refuse to take a collaborative approach to resolving these cases. The recent arrest of three people accused […]