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As surely as the warm weather brings vacations, barbecues and fireworks, it also brings inquiries from parents preparing to send their children off to college in the fall. Most commonly, our clients call about getting general and health care powers o…
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A criminal conviction can make it difficult for a person to find good work, or even to gain access to higher education, long after a sentence has been served. In recognition of the significant consequences that can flow from having a felony convictio…
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Although we don’t prepare income tax returns in our office, I am frequently asked about the tax consequences of various types of gifts. The general rule is that all gifts are taxable unless they fit into an exception. Fortunately, the exceptions ar…
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In an age when we seem to have less and less privacy, most of us are reluctant to needlessly surrender what privacy we do have. I was reminded of that a few days ago when a long-time client, who was selling a home titled in his living trust, called t…
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A client recently asked whether he must disclose to the buyer of his home the fact that the next-door neighbor is a registered sex offender. I was able to tell my client that Michigan does not require that he disclose his neighbor’s status. Rather,…
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Are you familiar with Bitcoin? It’s the oldest and most popular of dozens of digital currencies (called “cryptocurrencies”) now in existence. Created in 2009, bitcoin can be bought and sold as an investment or be used to purchase goods and serv…
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Since 1995, the amount by which Michigan real property taxes can increase each year has been capped at the lesser of five percent or the rate of inflation. This cap on property taxes comes off, however, whenever there is a “transfer of ownership.…
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Do you remember reading about Delilah in Kathy Spray’s email blast a month ago? She was the abandoned pup that Kathy helped rescue just days before she was scheduled to be euthanized. Kathy’s efforts resulted in Delilah being taken in by a very l…
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I think I was well into adulthood before I heard the term “housing cooperative.” I knew about farmers’ cooperatives because I grew up just a block away from the Cheboygan Co-op, where my Dad could buy eggs on the same day they were laid, and fr…
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Wright Beamer is pleased to announce that Lee Flaherty was recently named a Fellow of the Michigan State Bar Foundation, an honor reserved for no more than five percent of the active members of the State Bar of Michigan. Fellows are nominated and sel…
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