When you hear about someone is the news being faced with “child abuse charges“, this actually refers to a wide range of possible criminal charges. The Michigan penal code contains a number of different changes that a prosecutor can choose from, based on the circumstances of the alleged crime. Some are very specific, while others are general…
Month: February 2017
Imagine this. You are in a struggling relationship with your spouse or partner, and events take a turn for the worst. Whether it’s a lost job that results in even more financial stress, which is coped with through drinking, or a substance abuse problem that gets out of hand, your partner is struggling to…
The Appellate Court has ruled that statements made by Tina Harbert may be admitted into evidence once again in a child abuse case that took the media by storm last year. James Harbert, the Spring Arbor father who is accused of choking his son to the point of unconsciousness and whipping him with a…
The term ‘Failure to Protect” seems somewhat self explanatory. However, like so many things in Michigan law, there is always more than meets the eye. With that in mind, we wanted to take this opportunity to unpack this subject for you. So let’s spend a few minutes together and take a look at exactly…
This is unfortunately the second story this week that pertains to children found unsupervised, which has resulted in parents being arrested and charged. As the news media has pointed out, this is now the second instance of young children being found alone in Detroit in less than one week. In this case, two…
Thank you for joining us again for the rest of this discussion on how the state is regulating parenting more and more in the current age a fact that we believe is both sad and unacceptable. The government has no business interfering in how parents choose to raise their children, and the over reaching…
If you think that CPS only takes kids away from “bad” parents, the kind you read about in the paper who allegedly beat and burn and bite their children, think again. Unfortunately, CPS is not nearly so magnanimous. There are a host of other reasons that they can remove your children from your care…
Addiction is hard. Ask anyone who has ever battled to regain their freedom from an addiction, and they will tell you it is one of the hardest wars you will ever fight. Even when you’ve won, you’re still not really safe. But those whose struggle is in some ways hardest are those who never…