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  • Community Involvement

    On August 28, 2023, The Kemp Klein Foundation hosted its 2nd Annual Charity Golf Outing at Boulder Pointe Golf Club in Oxford, Michigan to benefit SAY Detroit. 

  • TRUSTS & ESTATES

    Typically, in estate planning trusts, the settlor and the trustee are the same person. Having only one person involved in the creation of a trust prevents an essential element of a contract - a meeting of the minds (aggretatio mentium). Many state cases have held that a "party cannot contract with himself." In, Michigan, for example, operating agreements for one person LLC's, are allowed.

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    Kemp Klein Attorneys Recognized

    We are proud to announce that twenty-eight of Kemp Klein’s attorneys have been included in the 2024 edition of the Best Lawyers in America®, and that eleven Kemp Klein Attorneys have been selected as 2023 Super Lawyers.

  • Spotlight

    You have carefully built your business, and realize the challenge of employment relations. Kemp Klein represent employers in both public and private sectors, and are experienced in arbitration, contract negotiation, drafting, employment relations, hiring and firing, procedures, progressive discipline, and drug testing programs.

  • Insights

    Alan A. May summarizes the latest cases in Probate. 

    Distributees of trust one sought to have the lower Court prevent a finding of validity of trust two, as grantor had a guardian and conservator. Evidence was introduced of a mild cognitive disorder. Grantor objected to the guardianship and conservatorship.

Neal Nusholtz's
Tax Guidance

Is a Trust A Contract and What If It Is? Typically, in estate planning trusts, the settlor and the trustee are the same person. Having only one person involved in the creation of a trust prevents an essential element of a contract — a meeting of the minds (aggretatio mentium). Many state cases have held that a “party cannot contract with himself.”

Alan A. May's
Probate Law Case
Summaries

Distributees of trust one sought to have the lower Court prevent a finding of validity of trust two, as grantor had a guardian and conservator. Evidence was introduced of a mild cognitive disorder. Grantor objected to the guardianship and conservatorship.

Buttiglieri and Zawideh Successful in $4.2 Million Settlement Over Will Dispute

Kemp Klein Attorneys Joseph P. Buttiglieri and Robert S. Zawideh successfully represented the the plaintiffs in a case in which they were disinherited. After hotly contested litigation, all the parties agreed to a 60/40 split of the estate, with the 40% group (who weren’t in the final will).

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