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Significant changes to the Michigan Employment Security Act took effect last month. The updates include: Expanded work-search requirement. Claimants must now report at least three work-search activities each week, up from one. Qualifying activities i… Read More

Summer is a season for family vacations, camps, educational trips, and visits with grandparents. But what happens if your child is staying with another trusted adult without you and a medical or other important decision needs to be made? Michigan law… Read More

Your grandmother’s photo albums and bank statements sat in a box, waiting for someone to flip through them. Your own records live differently: photos, email, and increasingly your money locked behind a password only you know. Our lives used to… Read More

The importance of funding your trust. A trust agreement is essentially a contract containing terms for the management and distribution of assets transferred to the trust. A declaration of trust, on the other hand, is a list of assets transferred or t… Read More

Family medical history requests trigger GINA liability. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) recently sued Dana Sealing Manufacturing, LLC, alleging that the company violated the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA) by… Read More

Social media use in the workplace is no longer occasional or incidental. With over 73% of the U.S. population active on at least one social media platform, it is a regular part of our everyday lives. Social media use in the workplace is no exception.… Read More

For many Americans, retirement accounts like IRAs and 401(k)s represent a significant portion of their assets. Because of a historically high federal estate tax exemption, few Americans will face estate taxes after death. However, the true planning o… Read More

At first glance, rising insurance premiums might seem like good news for insurance agents, who are typically paid on commission. But the reality is far more complicated. Property and casualty insurance agents generally fall into two categories: indep… Read More