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Beginning January 1, 2018, new laws took effect in Michigan that reduced the penalties for persons under 21 years of age who possess, purchase or consume alcohol (or attempt to possess, purchase or consume alcohol). The new penalties are as follows: First Violation -...
April 15th is Tax Day and the deadline for filing individual tax returns to the IRS. Maybe you figure that you have a few months to worry about it and taxes end up on the back of your to-do list. February ends and March begins... okay, there is still time to get it...
Michigan's statute of limitations are time limits imposed on prosecutors in which they must file charges accusing someone of a crime within a certain amount of time. The idea is to protect defendants because witnesses will forget or die and evidence will go missing as...
Beginning March 13th, 2018, Michigan police officers are no longer legally permitted to have sexual intercourse with prostitutes in the course of their duties. Yes, you did read that law correctly. Until Governor Snyder signed legislation in December 2017, undercover...
Technically speaking, Michigan still retains an inheritance tax and an estate tax in its statutes, but neither tax would apply to anyone who died today.An inheritance tax is a levy assessed upon a beneficiary receiving estate property from a decedent. The amount of...
A common trope in cinema for will readings is to have the decedent's surviving family appear in a lawyer's office, that attorney puts a video into the DVD player, and the decedent appear on a TV screen to personally address the beneficiaries and tell them what their...
On January 17th, 2018, the Michigan Senate and Michigan House of Representatives overrode Gov. Rick Snyder's veto on a tax bill aimed to provide relief to Michigan taxpayers.The issue at stake is the amount of sales tax that a Michigan resident would pay on the...
An inventory fee is the amount charged and collected by Michigan probate courts as an expense of administration on the value of the estate assets. Michigan's Estates and Protected Individuals Code provides a formula for how large this fee will be depending on the...
On December 22nd, President Trump signed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (hereafter "the Act") into law which affected nearly all aspects of the Internal Revenue Code. While the president was not able to totally fulfill his campaign promise to completely eliminate...
The Michigan Court of Appeals upheld an Oakland County probate judge in Estate of Maxine Hadley, unpublished per curiam opinion of the Court of Appeals, issued December 21st, 2017 (Docket No. 332888) and ruled that a son should not inherit after committing a...