Name: State Bar of Michigan
Address: 306 Townsend St, Lansing, MI, 48933, US
Telephone: +1-517-346-6300

Public Policy Bill Position Detail

Family law; marriage and divorce; division of property on divorce; enact statutory standards. Amends sec. 1 of 1949 PA 42 (MCL 552.401).

Family Law

State Bar of Michigan

Oppose the bills as introduced, and support the current and ongoing efforts to produce revised drafts of the bills that meet the following goals: (1) Incorporation of current statutory law; (2) Clarification of equitable factors relevant to judicial review; (3) Codification of existing case law pertaining to commonly recurring fact patterns; (4) Consideration of existing and pending uniform state laws; (5) Maintenance of judicial discretion; (6) Improving the predictability of outcomes in cases without individual agreements; (7) Identification of the circumstances, if any, under which a private agreement that conflicts with the statutes would be trumped by the statutes. (Position adopted by roll call vote. Commissioners voting in favor of the position: Anderson, Barnes, Brake, Buchanan, Buiteweg, Courtade, Cunningham, Einhorn, Erhart, Escobedo, Fershtman, Gobbo, Haroutunian, Kallman, McGinnis, D., McGinnis, M., Niforos, Nolan, Olsman, Perkins, Radke, Riordan, Robinson, Rockwell, Rombach, Siriani, Strong Marks, Sullivan, Thomas, Warnez, Jenkins. Commissioners abstaining: Costello.):
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