An individual may be “temporarily disarmed consistent with the Second Amendment” when a court determines that he or she poses “a credible threat to the physical safety of another.”

The trial court abused its discretion by admitting the GAL’s reports, LARA documents, and expert opinion testimony about domestic violence because each piece of evidence was inadmissible.

The Michigan Court of Appeals has vacated an order terminating the parental rights of a mother who was the victim of domestic violence.

DHHS made reasonable efforts to reunify the respondent-parents with their child despite the challenges presented by the COVID-19 pandemic

The Michigan Supreme Court found that the Respondent's counsel provided ineffective assistance by failing to cite to the record, citing incorrect legal standards in support of those claims, and failing to raise potentially meritorious claims.

The trial court properly terminated the respondent-mother’s parental rights because at least one of the statutory termination factors was met.

The trial court correctly modified the parties’ custody order to give the mother sole legal and physical custody of the children.

A father’s use of corporal punishment as a disciplinary method constituted as domestic violence and, as a result, the trial court properly modified custody.

A plea agreement reached by a former Michigan senator was contrary to public policy because it prohibited the senator from seeking public office during his five-year probationary period.

Under In re Plump, 294 Mich App 270, 273; 817 NW2d 119 (2011), a parent’s parental rights cannot “be terminated solely because he or she was a victim of domestic violence.”

The opinion is troubling. It does not appear that the child was a victim of domestic violence or that mother failed to protect the child.