The Court of Appeals held that the trial court erred by requiring the parties to undergo psychological evaluations before filing future custody or parenting-time motions, because that requirement conflicts with the statutory framework set forth in MCL 722.27(1)(c).

The trial court in this child removal case properly accepted the respondent-mother’s waiver of a probable cause hearing and did not err by enforcing that waiver in subsequent proceedings, the Michigan Court of Appeals has ruled.

The Michigan Supreme Court has vacated part of a lower court’s decision that had rejected a mother’s ineffective assistance of counsel claim in her termination of parental rights case.