TKACHIK v. MANDEVILLE

Docket No. 138460. Calendar No. 2.

790 N.W.2d 260 (2010)

487 Mich. 38

Susan TKACHIK, Personal Representative of the Estate of Janet Mandeville, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Frank MANDEVILLE, Jr., Defendant-Appellee.

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided July 27, 2010.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Penzien Hirzel, PLLC, (by Charles M. Penzien ), Clinton Township, for plaintiff.

Cashen & Strehl (by William K. Cashen ), Shelby Township, for defendant.

Judith A. Curtis , Grosse Pointe, amicus curiae, for the Family Law Section of the State Bar of Michigan.


Opinion

MARKMAN, J.

This case presents a relatively narrow question, one that is accessible to both the lay and legal reader: whether a husband who has abandoned his wife for the final 18 months of her life while she was battling cancer, who had no personal contact with her during this period, and who did not even attend her funeral, should have to contribute his share of the mortgage, tax, and insurance payments that the wife alone paid during her final...

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