The Department of Veteran’s Affairs (VA) provides several different benefits for our veterans. In addition to the better known “service connected” benefits, benefits can be provided to wartime veterans and the surviving spouses of wartime veterans for medical care and expenses incurred while living at home or at a senior residence. Aid and Attendance, is…
Continue reading ›Yesterday, July 14, 2012 marked an important federal holiday, Flag Day. I tend to view Flag Day as an important federal holiday, just as important as Veteran’s Day and Memorial Day. Flag Day is an important day to honor our country’s flag and its symbolic significance. After all, “[i]t is the flag for which we…
Continue reading ›You may not have realized it when you got your driver’s license way back when, but you made certain promises and consented to certain things. Specifically, drivers in Michigan imply, by operating a motor vehicle that they will consent to a test to determine their blood alcohol level when they are stopped by police for…
Continue reading ›The dictionary defines the term earnest as “resulting from or showing intense conviction.” Any Michigan criminal defendant facing a DUI charge needs an attorney possessing just such conviction in order to prevent a conviction. The criminal defense team at SMDA have enjoyed a variety of successes in handling Michigan drinking and driving offenses over the…
Continue reading ›Before the housing market crashed in 2008, it was very easy to deal with the marital home in a divorce. Usually, the party who earned more had a desire to keep the home but he/she had to buy out the other spouse’s interest in the equity. Then, he/she would have to refinance the house to…
Continue reading ›Unfortunately for their clients, many DUI attorneys take the limited view that their job is to simply practice law and advise their clients relative to laws in Michigan regarding drinking and driving offenses. The problem with this view is that it fails to address the underlying addiction which may have played a role in leading…
Continue reading ›Shortly after I posted a recent blog about “No Fault Divorce”, I received a question while I was on the radio (690 A.M. with Bob and Rob Allison’s ‘Ask Your Neighbor’ program. . .Fridays at 9 a.m.) talking about No Fault Divorce issues. I was asked about the phrase “Irreconcilable Differences”. That is a phrase…
Continue reading ›If you are fortunate enough to have primary health insurance you and you are involved in an auto accident, you have the unfortunate responsibility of making sure you stay within your primary plan’s coverage zones and obtain medical care by providers who subscribe to your primary health care insurance plan. If you do not do…
Continue reading ›When parents make the difficult decision to file for divorce, the impact on the children’s lives can be devastating if the parents cannot (or will not) co-parent. Co-parenting is part and parcel to the legal concept of joint legal custody. Michigan divorce law favors joint legal custody so that both parents are involved in making…
Continue reading ›I receive calls all the time from people who want to know how much a “simple divorce” will cost. Some of those people reveal that they have purchased on line divorce kits or they went to the court house and began filling out the forms on their own. In today’s economy, people are always looking…
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