ZAHER v. MIOTKE

Docket No. 307394.

832 N.W.2d 266 (2013)

300 Mich. App. 132

ZAHER v. MIOTKE.

Court of Appeals of Michigan.

Decided March 28, 2013, at 9:00 a.m.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rizik & Rizik, Grand Blanc, (by George F. Rizik, II ) for plaintiff.

Jason M. Ministrelli , Birmingham, for defendant.

Before: GLEICHER, P.J., and SAWYER and FORT HOOD, JJ.


PER CURIAM.

The question presented in this case is whether an easement is void ab initio or merely subject to a lien-type interest when the male owner of a servient estate violates the statute of frauds by granting an easement without securing his wife's waiver of her then inchoate dower interest. Consistent with long-standing precedent of the Michigan Supreme Court, an inchoate dower interest is an encumbrance on a husband's property that can be valued. Therefore...

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