Makes Life More Meaningful
Michele C. Marquardt
Michele C. Marquardt
Retired
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Practice Areas
- Estate Planning
- Trusts
- Wills and Probate
- Charitable Giving
- Business Succession
- Guardianships and Conservatorships
- Elder Law and Medicaid
Biography
Education
- Wayne State University Law School, Detroit, Michigan
- J.D. - 1986
- Honors: cum laude
- Albion College
- A.B. - 1972
- Honors: summa cum laude
- University of Michigan
- M.A. - 1977
- Major: Educational Psychology
Bar Admissions
- Michigan, 1986
- U.S. District Court Eastern District of Michigan, 1986
Professional Associations
- American College of Trusts and Estates Counsel, Fellow
- American Bar Association
- State Bar of Michigan, Real Property & Probate Sections
- Kalamazoo County Bar Association
Published Works
- "Estate Administration in Michigan”, 2nd edition 2013, Institute of Continuing Legal Education, State of Michigan
- “Incentive Trusts? Beware!” Estates, Gifts and Trusts Journal, BNA Tax Management
- “Gifting S Corporation Stock to a Community Foundation”, The Exempt Organization Tax Review
- “Site Plan Review - Limits on Discretion”, Michigan Real Property Review
- “Share Loan Financing for the Cooperative Member”, Michigan Real Property Review
- “Revocable Living Trusts”, Institute of Continuing Legal Education, State of Michigan
Representative Cases
Honors
- “Michigan SuperLawyers, Estate Planning”, 2007 - 2016
- “Top Women Attorneys in Michigan”, Hour Detroit, 2014
- Named as one of the Top 100 Attorneys in the U.S. by Worth Magazine, 2006, 2007, and 2008
- “Who's Who of American Women”, 2010 - 2011