Your Building Contract
Your building contract is going to be the most important document, other than perhaps your mortgage, that you sign for your building...
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What Party?
It’s Always Something: Bankruptcy and Your Builder’s License If I was to tell you that someone was a third-party beneficiary, you would...
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It’s Always Something: Bankruptcy and Your Builder’s License
Maybe you remember the 1970’s “Saturday Night Live” broadcasts where Gilda Radner played a character called Roseanne Roseannadanna. Her...
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Defalcation: How to Get Paid Even if the General Contractor Goes Bankrupt
It is not news to residents of Michigan that the economy has been limping along. Now the nation knows what most Michiganders have been...
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Contractors Held to Higher Standard than Homeowners
In our business climate today, I hear contractors grousing that all the responsibility of a job falls upon them and not the homeowner. ...
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Contract Updates to the Construction Lien Act
As some of you may know, the governor signed a bill into law on December 28, 2006, which made some changes to our Construction Lien Act. ...
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COMMIT TO EXCELLENCE ORCOMMIT TO LITIGATE
Our local Home Builders’ Association theme is “Commitment to Excellence.” If you think about it, perform with excellence and success...
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Children First, Even in a Divorce
There is an old proverb to the effect of “The way of a person always seems right in their own eyes.” If you think about it, nobody ever...
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Builders Are Exempt from Consumer Protection Claims
For years, the Michigan Consumer Protection Act (MCL 445.901) has been used as a means for consumers to make claims against various types...
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Big Trouble for Contractors & Subcontractors
One of the quickest and most common ways a contractor or subcontractor can get into big trouble is by not being careful with their money....
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Attack of the Unlicensed Contractor
The following story is true. However, as they say in “DRAGNET,” the names have been changed to protect the innocent. Ken Contractor was...
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Government Tracking | Traverse City Criminal Attorney
Are They Tracking You? I. Background In the case of the United States v Jones, decided on January 23, 2012, the Supreme Court took a...
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Liens | Traverse City Lien Lawyer
A Real Life Lien Story A. The Problem. A few years ago, when I had an office up in Marquette, a contractor-friend of mine named Gary...
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