Thoughtful Estate Planning
Makes Life More Meaningful

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

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