Gielow Groom Terpstra & McEvoy

02/13/2026

GGTM Law will be at the Cooley Law School job fair tomorrow, February 13th, and we're excited to meet students interested in gaining real-world legal experience.

If you're driven, detail-oriented, and passionate about law, stop by our booth and introduce yourself. We'd love to talk about how you can grow your legal career with us. See you there!

12/24/2025

GGTM wishes you and yours a wonderful holiday season!

11/26/2025

The GGTM team wishes you and yours a Happy Thanksgiving!

09/22/2025

Check out Chuck Murray's new estate planning article!

Many of us regularly contribute to a 401(k) as our primary tool for retirement savings. These plans allow us to identify an amount, usually from each payroll period, to submit to a managed fund for longer-term investing. Over the years, these small investments can grow to significant sums. At some f...

06/09/2025

Check out our new estate planning article:

Do you know which of your accounts have beneficiary designations, sometimes called transfer-on-death (TOD) or payable-on-death (POD) designations? Have you reviewed your choices or updated them recently? Are you aware of what can go wrong if there are issues with your beneficiary designation forms?....

05/19/2025

Due to a power outage at our building, we will be closed for the remainder of today, May 19. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. If you have an appointment scheduled for today, a member of our staff will be contacting you to reschedule.

03/28/2025

Check out the new Estate Planning article on the importance of an Asset Inventory -

An important aspect of an estate plan includes assisting the administrators of your estate, during your life or after your death, with knowing what assets are available and where those assets should be located. The best way to address this is to keep a regularly updated list identifying the location...

03/26/2025

Corporate Transparency Update here:

FinCEN has issued a new interim final rule for the Corporate Transparency Act (“CTA”). This new version of the CTA rules exempts all companies defined as “domestic reporting companies” from reporting their beneficial ownership information (“BOI”). Under the new rules, only companies form...

03/26/2025

Check out our update on the Earned Sick Time Act (ESTA)!

An hour before it was scheduled to go into effect on February 21, 2025, the Michigan legislature came to a compromise on an amendment to the Earned Sick Time Act (“ESTA”). There were many substantive changes in the amendment, especially for “small businesses” who employ ten or fewer employee...

03/10/2025

Check out the new Estate Planning blog:

A qualified terminable interest property (QTIP) trust may be a solution that designs a plan for you to care for your spouse, and then your children worth exploring for your estate planning needs. Would you like to learn more about QTIPs and planning? Contact Attorney Chuck Murray at Gielow Groom Ter...

02/27/2025

Check out our new estate planning article on SLATs!

While chocolates and flowers are nice gestures to express love during these late winter days, a spousal lifetime access trust (SLAT) can make a more lasting gift, especially with the record-high estate tax exemption set to decrease drastically in 2026. In general terms, a SLAT is a trust that allows...