I am writing today to announce the closure of the Michigan Messenger. After four years of operation in Michigan, the board of the American Independent News Network, has decided to shift publication of its news into a single site, The American Independent at Americanindependent.com. This is part of a shift in strategy, towards new forms [...]
An abstinence-only presentation provided to numerous school districts in Calhoun and Eaton Counties in October of this year provided false and misleading information to students about HIV, experts allege.
Two county registers of deeds filed a class action lawsuit Monday on behalf of Michigan’s 83 counties alleging that the Mortgage Electronic Registration Services owes millions of dollars in property title transfer taxes.
Despite evidence of the impact of mercury on children and public health, Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette last month joined with 24 other state attorneys general in filing a lawsuit to scuttle new EPA regulations that would reduce mercury emissions from power plants.
In a decision that will have meaning for gay and lesbian couples who are raising children together and also for unmarried heterosexual couples, the Michigan Court of Appeals has ruled that a Gross Ile woman does not have legal standing to sue for joint custody of the children she helped raise.
The Detroit Free Press reports:
The decision came in the case involving Renee Harmon and Tammy Davis, a Grosse Ile couple who broke up in 2008 after 19 years. Along the way, Davis had three children through artificial insemination. Wayne County Circuit Judge Kathleen McCarthy ruled in April that Harmon had legal standing to try to pursue joint custody of the children she helped raise.
But appeals judges Karen Fort Hood, Michael Talbot and Christopher Murray disagreed, ruling on Thursday that “one becomes a parent under the Child Custody Act through procreation, or through adoption or the presumption… arising from a child born in a legal marriage.”
According to U.S. Census data nearly 40 percent of children are now born to unmarried couples.
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