MI BAR Study Guide 2026
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📋 MI BAR Exam Format at a Glance
📚 MI BAR Topics to Study (63)
✍️ Sample MI BAR Questions & Answers
1. Under Michigan law, nonprobate transfers such as POD accounts and revocable trust assets are counted for elective share purposes how?
Michigan reduces the elective share by one-half the value of property the spouse derived from the decedent by means other than the will, rather than using a full augmented estate.
2. A trespassing child is injured by an artificial condition on Michigan land. Under the attractive nuisance doctrine, the landowner may be liable if which is true?
Michigan follows the Restatement approach requiring foreseeable child trespassers, a dangerous artificial condition, and the child's inability to appreciate the risk.
3. Under the Michigan Trust Code, a valid private express trust requires all of the following EXCEPT:
Michigan trusts need capacity, intent, ascertainable beneficiaries (or an exception), and trustee duties, but an oral trust of personal property can be valid without witnesses.
4. Under MRE 407, evidence that a store installed handrails after a customer's fall is admissible to prove:
Subsequent remedial measures are inadmissible to prove negligence but may be admitted for other purposes such as disputed ownership, control, or feasibility.
5. A buyer and seller orally agree to the sale of goods for $450. The seller later refuses to perform, citing the Statute of Frauds. What result?
UCC 2-201 requires a writing only for sales of goods priced at $500 or more.
6. In Michigan, joint and several liability in tort actions has largely been replaced by what system?
Michigan's 1995 tort reform generally abolished joint and several liability, making each defendant liable only for its allocated percentage of fault, with exceptions such as medical malpractice.