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?Exclusive use and occupancy? allows the court to order the removal of your spouse from the home and you, or you and your children, get the exclusive right to live there.

Under an order of exclusive occupancy, you can petition the court to allow only one spouse to reside in the marital home while the divorce is underway. This legal order can be issued by a Michigan court under only two circumstances: When one spouse has found a new home outside of the marital residence.

Check with the clerk of the court to confirm what's required, but in most courts you'll need to file a: Petition (Consent Judgment) Domestic violence screening form. Confidential Case Inventory (if you have any other pending or resolved family division cases), and a. Proposed Consent Judgment/Order.

Fair usually means that each person gets about half of everything. But in some cases, a judge could decide it is fair to divide marital property in a different way. Your property might be divided unequally if one person is more at fault for the marriage ending or if one person needs more property.

In instances of divorce after 10 years of marriage in Michigan, an ex-spouse has the right to claim up to half of the other's workers' compensation benefits, Social Security benefits, and military pension benefits.