Family Law

• Divorce
• Child Support
  Parenting time has important and lasting ramifications to your custody case. Agreeing to any parenting time schedule can affect your custody case and child support. Each parent may have the right to a specific parenting time schedule which includes holidays and summer school recess.
• Child Custody and Visitation
  Child custody are issues that arise not only in divorce but also in paternity actions, (where children are born to unwed parents) and post-judgment motions. There are two types of child custody in Michigan: (1) Physical Custody – where the child resides; (2) Legal Custody – which parent makes significant decisions regarding the child. The parenting time schedule may be based on a county’s standard schedule or may be agreed upon by the parties or as the judge decides at trial. Either way, the process of determining custody and parenting time is one of the most important decisions in your child’s life.
• Paternity
  With the recent changes in Michigan’s Paternity Act it is very important that your family law attorney have the legal knowledge to handle your case. The law has opened up allowing more potential alleged fathers to come forward seeking legal rights to a child. Attorney Cypher's knowledgeable about these changes in Michigan law as well as other issues that may affect your paternity case. If you believe you are the father or have been told so yet you aren’t receiving any parenting time, contact our office today to discuss your rights under Michigan paternity law.
• Guardianship
  Contact Laaksonen Law Offices if you seek information about getting quality time with your grandchild when the parents are separated, divorced, dysfunctional or incapacitated. You may want to seek a guardianship or any other grandparenting time option which may be possible under the law. To obtain grandparenting time under the Michigan statute, you will need to demonstrate that denying grandparenting time to you and your grandchildren creates a immenint risk of doing harm to a child’s emotional or physical condition. Also, if you have lost a child and wish to have time with your grandchildren from your deceased child, you may have that right under the statute.

Criminal Law

• Criminal Defense
  Attorney Laaksonen specializes in the areas of criminal law, drunk driving, driver’s license restoration, civil litigation, real estate, estate planning, probate litigation and business formation.
• DUI/DWI
  Drunk driving is a serious offense that can have equally serious outcomes. If you are convicted of drunk driving, there are mandatory legal penalties. You could have your driver’s license suspended or your auto insurance rates could sky rocket. In these cases, it is important to have an experienced attorney who understands the law and who is ready to defend and guide you through the process.

Business and Corporate Law

• Business Formation

Property Law

• Real Estate Transactions
  If you’re buying, selling, building, developing, or leasing real estate, you need an experienced real estate attorney to navigate you though the many issues surrounding real estate transactions.

Trusts and Estates

• Estate Planning
  Regardless of the size of your estate, you can rest assured that you are in complete control of how your property and assets will be distributed after you are gone. These decisions are sometimes complicated and an experienced attorney can help guide you through the legal questions that may arise. By being informed and assisted by a knowledgeable attorney, your wills, trusts, and other estate plans will successfully reflect your wishes for you and your family.
• Wills
• Trusts
  A Living Trust helps you keep full control of your assets and you act as trustee. This is to protect your assets. It is a legal document containing instructions for ownership of your assets.
• Probate

Finance Law

• Foreclosure