IN RE ESTATE OF VANSACH

No. 334732, No. 336267.

922 N.W.2d 136 (2018)

324 Mich. App. 371

IN RE ESTATE OF Joseph VANSACH, Jr. Joseph Vansach Jr., Petitioner-Appellee, v. Department of Health and Human Services, Respondent-Appellant. In re Estate of Jerome R. Bockes. Jerome R. Bockes, a Protected Person, Petitioner-Appellee, v. Department of Health and Human Resources, Respondent-Appellant.

Court of Appeals of Michigan.

Decided May 22, 2018, at 9:00 a.m.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bill Schuette , Attorney General, Aaron D. Lindstrom , Solicitor General, Matthew Schneider and Laura Moody , Chief Legal Counsel, and Geraldine A. Brown , Assistant Attorney General, for the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services.

Barron, Rosenberg, Mayoras & Mayoras, PC (by Don L. Rosenberg , Kimberly C. Browning , and Scott M. Robbins ) for Ramona Fenner-Vansach.

Chalgian & Tripp Law Offices PLLC (by David L. Shaltz ) and Grua, Tupper & Young PLC (by Carrie S. Ihrig Freeman ) for Jerome R. Bockes.

James Schuster for the Elder Law and Disability Rights Section of the State Bar of Michigan. Fraser Trebilcock Davis & Dunlap, PC (by Marlaine C. Teahan ), amici curiae, for the Probate and Estate Planning Section of the State Bar of Michigan.

Before: O'Connell, P.J., and Hoekstra and K. F. Kelly, JJ.


In Docket No. 334732, respondent, the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), appeals as of right a protective order entered by the St. Clair County Probate Court, which ordered that all of Joseph Vansach, Jr.'s income be paid to his wife, Ramona Fenner-Vansach, for the rest of Joseph's life. In Docket No. 336267, the DHHS appeals a...

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