In determining whether changing schools was in the best interests of the parties’ child, the trial court improperly excluded a report about the school district.

A trial court properly terminated a father’s parental rights to his two older children after the youngest child died because termination was in the older children’s best interests.

A trial court abused its discretion when it held that a court-appointed lawyer’s appellate fees were excessive and unreasonable, the Michigan Court of Appeals has ruled.

The trial court erroneously discounted the role of the parent who worked outside the home and, improperly ruled that the child only had an ECE with the stay-at-home parent.

In this divorce action, the trial court’s order denying the ex-husband’s motion for a new trial must be vacated and the case remanded.

A police officer did not have the authority to search a backpack belonging to the passenger in a vehicle because the officer did not first obtain the passenger’s consent.

The trial court committed “clear legal error” by considering whether the children’s mother would be able to maintain her existing parenting-time schedule if the children moved to IN.

The Michigan Court of Appeals issued the very first decision (published or unpublished) under the Safe Delivery of Newborn Law (SDNL), which has existed since 2000.

In Fry v. Napoleon Community Schools, the U.S. Supreme Court examined a disability-based discrimination claim brought by a Michigan student against a public school.

In Berger v. Berger, a Defendant-father appealed from a judgment of divorce to the Michigan Court of Appeals following a Trial Court ruling that the Plaintiff-mother was to receive custody of the parties two children as well as a 70/30 division of marital property.