Mary Ann Abramson

I have over 18 years of legal experience, concentrating in the areas below. My clients include traditional and nontraditional families. Family Law / Domestic Relations: All areas of family law and domestic relations, including negotiation, mediation, litigation and appellate level representation. Services include divorce, annulments, judgments of separate maintenance, child custody, parenting time, child support, paternity, spousal support / alimony, property settlements, pre and post-nuptial agreements, and personal protection orders. -- I represented the prevailing party in a published Michigan Court of Appeals case, Dumm vs. Brodbeck, 276 Mich App 460 (2007), involving the issue of "proper cause or change in circumstance", which is the legal threshold that a party must be able to demonstrate has been met before the trial court can entertain a party's' motion to modify child custody. Estate Planning: Preparation of all estate planning documents including revocable living trusts, wills, durable powers of attorney and medical directives. Enrolled in the Michigan ICLE Estate Planning Certificate Program. Adoptions: Representation of adoptive parents in direct-placement, relative and stepparent adoptions. Juvenile Neglect Proceedings: Representation of children and respondent parents at the trial level. Appellate level representation in matters involving orders terminating parental rights. Guardianships & Conservatorships: Representation of petitioners and respondents at the initial petition stage as well as in contested proceedings. Regularly appointed by Oakland and Macomb County Probate Court judges to serve as attorney representing respondents in contested proceedings and to serve as Guardian Ad Litem for respondents in contested proceedings and in case reviews. Mental Health Proceedings: Regularly appointed by Oakland and Macomb County Probate Court judges to represent respondents in mental health commitment hearings.

• Attorney

• Dumm vs. Brodbeck, 276 Mich App 460 (2007)

• Family Law Assistance Project
• Women's Survival Center, January 1, 1998 - January 1, 2005

• Michigan, 1997

• State Bar of Michigan (member)
• Oakland County Bar Association (member)
• Women Lawyers Association of Michigan (member)