New Laws

In 2016, it’s hard to believe that living together could be illegal. Due to an old, outdated law, thousands of Michigan couples...

Domestic violence is a serious problem in family law. Whether there has been a conviction or not, the lasting effects of intimate...

In December of 2014, the Michigan Legislature passed the Genetic Parentage Act and the Summary Support and Paternity Act. The laws won’t...

In the past week, the Michigan House of Representatives has approved 4 different bills, each of which allows discrimination and refusal of...

It’s been the law in Michigan that your license can be suspended if you refuse to take a Preliminary Breath Test for...

Human trafficking has been gaining visibility over the past several years. Federal and state law enforcement have wrestled with how to track,...

The debate has raged for decades: whether new mothers should be allowed to breastfeed their babies in public. Restaurants have refused to...

Drug use, especially meth, carries with it a stigma that can cause addicts to lose jobs, homes, and family support. But imagine...

Parents have a fundamental constitutional right to care for their children, but for 70 years, Michigan has allowed courts to take one...

Only certain people have a say in your sentence during a criminal case: the judge, the prosecutor, the probation department, your attorney,...