A woman who fell and injured herself while washing her vehicle at a self-serve car wash is entitled to no-fault personal injury protection (PIP) benefits.

Michigan is on the cutting edge when it comes to probate law, recently becoming the first state in the nation to recognize a note left on a cell phone as a valid “digital will.”

An Ecuadorian mother’s taking of her minor child from MI to Ecuador without notifying the father, did not preclude the possibility that the child had become a “habitual resident”.

MCL 168.937, which is part of the state’s Election Law, is a penalty provision that does not create a substantive offense, the Michigan Supreme Court has ruled in a unanimous decision.

A trial court erred in distributing a divorcing couple’s marital property because the parties’ prenuptial agreement was ignored in doing so, the Michigan Court of Appeals has ruled.

Plaintiffs have a right to a jury trial in Circuit Court when bringing actions against the state under the ELCRA, the Michigan Court of Appeals has ruled in a published decision.

The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is making headlines for its recent ruling in an employment discrimination case, although probably not for the reason the Court would like: its decision.

A spousal support award and the division of property in a divorce case must be vacated because the trial court engaged in a “parade of errors”.

Michigan family law attorneys can place a lien on a client’s property to be awarded in a divorce proceeding as payment for legal services.

The Court of Appeals further held that remand was necessary to address the father’s request to modify parenting time.

The MI SCT recently issued its highly anticipated decision in Bazzi v Sentinel Ins Co, in which the justices declared that no-fault’s “innocent third-party rule” no longer exists.

A trial court judge did not have to disqualify himself from the defendant’s criminal case even though the judge had publicly endorsed the prosecutor in a Circuit Court election campaign.

A trial judge should not have stricken a plaintiff’s expert witnesses as a sanction for violating discovery orders, the COA has ruled, finding that the sanction was too harsh.

An auto accident victim is entitled to no-fault insurance benefits under his parents’ no-fault policy where the victim’s parents committed insurance fraud after the policy was purchased.

A prosecutor’s “grossly improper” remarks during closing argument in a child abuse case, constituted deliberate prosecutorial misconduct and “poisoned the proceedings”.

Livingston County District Court Judge Theresa Brennan is no longer hearing cases amid the release of an explosive misconduct complaint from the Judicial Tenure Commission.

A trial court should not have dismissed the plaintiff’s no-fault case with prejudice because of the plaintiff’s “unavailability”.

The day after the baby was born, the midwife told the parents it was suffering from jaundice. The parents didn’t take the baby to the doctor, electing to pray for the baby’s good health instead.