Houghton v. Keller

How courts have described this case

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• stating that “[a]n appellant’s failure to properly address the merits of his assertion of error constitutes abandonment of the issues.”
• stating that failure to cite supporting authority and properly address the merits of an assertion of error constitutes abandonment of the issues on appeal
• stating that an appellant may not “give issues cursory treatment with little or no citation of supporting authority”
• “Nothing in the language of M.C.L. § 552.6 expressly prohibits guardians from filing a complaint for divorce on behalf of a party to the marriage.”
• “Nothing in the language of M.C.L. § 552.6 expressly prohibits guardians from filing a complaint for divorce on behalf of a party to the marriage.”
• \An appellant's failure to properly address the merits of his assertion of error constitutes abandonment of the issue.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).