Family Law

When clients face personal relationship transitions, Miller Canfield attorneys assist and advise them through all stages of proceedings regarding pre- and post-nuptial agreements, separation agreements, annulments, and the creation and dissolution of cohabitation agreements.  We work closely with our clients to provide for their well-being in case of death, disability or divorce.

Our attorneys counsel and represent clients in simple, collaborative and complex divorces, such as those involving business valuations, tax issues, and assist in child custody and support matters.  High net worth individuals benefit from our firm-wide expertise in estate planning, taxation, real estate, business transactions, intellectual property, employment and pension issues, immigration and international law.  We’re able to provide coordinated solutions to complex individual needs.

When necessary, our attorneys safeguard the well-being of clients with court intervention and personal protection orders.  We counsel and represent clients in a sophisticated trial and motion practice before all courts that efficiently and effectively preserve our client’s interests in personal relationship transitions.

Our family law attorneys provide counsel and representation in paternity suits, domestic and international child custody and support matters and enforcement actions, as well as parenting time arrangements and adoption, including step-parent adoption.  Attention is given to the subsequent necessity to review and update estate planning documents and post-judgment matters such as enforcement of and modifications to agreements, Friend of the Court matters and birth record corrections.