Yatooma Law, P.C.

07/15/2025

We are bringing a lawsuit against Chris Anderson and Anderson's Boat Sales for statutory conversion and violation of the Michigan Consumer Protection Act. If you have likewise been taken advantage of by Anderson Boat Sales, message me directly to be included in the lawsuit. No fee unless we win.

06/02/2025

Our golf tourney is TWO WEEKS from TODAY! Give your dad the gift of golf this Father’s Day in support of all of our community’s kids who have lost their own father. Please join us on Monday, June 16, 2025, for our 23rd Annual Champions for the Kids Golf Tournament at Forest Lake Country Club in Bloomfield Hills. Kindly register here: forthekidsfoundation.org.

05/21/2025

Our golf tourney is less than a month away! Give your dad the gift of golf this Father’s Day in support of all of our community’s kids who have lost their own father. Please join us on Monday, June 16, 2025, for our 23rd Annual Champions for the Kids Golf Tournament at Forest Lake Country Club in Bloomfield Hills. Kindly register here: forthekidsfoundation.org

12/26/2024

Wishing you a blessed Christmas, friends.

12/25/2024

23 years ago today, on Christmas Eve, we brought Livie home from the hospital. She was beautiful. 23 years later, she has graduated to oddly stunning. We can’t get through a family outing without boys embarrassing themselves with their awkward advances. But to call her “beautiful” is hardly a compliment. She did nothing to earn it. Sure, she brushes her hair. But apart from that, her beauty is just a gift, like any other.

Well, now my pretty 23 year old is on the news 5 nights per week. She’s really good at it. Her spirit makes the news brighter. As he continues to monitor her from afar, the head of her former university broadcasting department regularly emails me about what a stand out talent is Liv, preparing me for how far she’ll go. Unparalleled among her predecessors in her broadcasting school, he says. A talent like he hasn’t seen before and doesn’t expect to see again. She is, indeed, uniquely talented. And while she works incredibly hard to perfect her craft and prepare her stories, her talent is just another gift.

But what makes Liv truly rare, is neither the gift of her unusual beauty nor the gift of her unusual talent, but rather that she understands that these blessings are gifts and she remains grateful to the giver. She loves God with all of her heart, all of her soul, and all of her strength. And He loves her back, with both hands wide open. That’s one of the things I love most about Liv, not her gifts, but her gratitude to the giver.

And we are likewise grateful to Him, for giving us you. So as we wind down the celebration of your birthday, and wind up the celebration of His, I thank God for the gift of you, Livie. I love you unconditionally, always and over the top. Happy Birthday, Love.

11/18/2024

This was my verse of the day: “Seek the Kingdom of God above all else, and live righteously, and He will give you everything you need.” Matthew 6:33. I’ve come to know a lot of people; too many. But I don’t know many, if any, who embody this scripture so well as Sophia. From the time she had the cognitive ability to consider her own choices, she’s been choosing the Kingdom of God. Every day, she chooses to live righteously. She has unusual integrity, so much so that she even refuses herself the simple conveniences which may be even colorably construed as contrary. She will cut no corners, period. She’s intent on showing God’s love even, if not especially, when it’s unpopular. In the most hurtful of circumstances, she’s the first to choose forgiveness. The path most narrow is her norm. Deuteronomy‬ ‭6‬:‭5‬-‭7‬ ‭says, “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. Impress them on your children.…” She does. They are. And she has impressed those commandments on her parents as much as her parents have impressed them on her. It’s an unusual thing to look up to your own child. But I do. I admire the God in her and the commitment she has to being a living sacrifice unto Him each day.

Happy birthday, Love. You’re every bit as sweet as you are 16. I am immensely proud of being your dad. I love you unconditionally, always, and over the top. Xoxo

11/08/2024

My mother raised up 4 sons. In the early years, when we’d misbehave, she would always threaten us with “you just wait till your father gets home!”

Welp world leaders, looks like DADDY’S HOME!

11/06/2024

09/07/2024

Our golf tourney is in just 10 days!

With thanks to our board for underwriting our administrative expenses, 100% of your event proceeds will be dedicated to the support of our community’s kids who have lost a parent. (James 1:27)

With that in mind, I do hope that either you or your credit card will join us. If you can’t make it, kindly consider underwriting a foursome for one of our beneficiary families or first responders.

01/05/2024

I love Christmas. I love everything about it. It’s about the best reason to celebrate after the pool is closed. Most of the world, even the most rancorous lawyers among us, enjoy a little respite in the week before New Year’s Day. I love the family time. My college girls return home. My younger girls shelve their school books. And we just hang out together, virtually all day every day. More than ever, I love our children’s charity at Christmas. The blessing of caring “for orphans and widows in their distress” is never more marvelously celebrated than at Christmas time. And, of course, the celebration we treasure most is the birthday of our King. But second only to the birth of His Son, God’s greatest Christmas gift to our family was the birth of our first born daughter, brought home on Christmas Eve.

So we just celebrated what Olivia calls her “Taylor Swift Birthday”. For those of you who are not football fans, that means she just turned “22”. Of course she also calls this her year of “adulting” and adulting she is indeed. She’s 4 months away from her broadcasting degree. While Liv is understandably ruminative about what comes next, her family knows that even gravity won’t restrain her rise. Sometimes when I look at her, I can hardly believe that I had a part in making something so magnificent. Her beauty and her talent are undeniable; she’s received every honor her department has to offer and more “offerings” from boys than I care to describe. But what makes Liv impressive, is that despite all that, she’s one of the most fiercely loyal, relentlessly loving people I’ve ever known. With all of her considerable gifts, none are so great as her heart. So while Liv may be pensive about what the future holds, we are peaceful in the knowledge that our Christmas baby will be unusually victorious. So much so, that we named her accordingly. Olivia Noelle Victoria: the peace of Christ - the birth of Christ - the victory of Christ. Embrace it, Love, the sun is always shining on your face, so enjoy the journey and forever Liv Out Loud. Happy Golden Birthday to you, Livie, and Merry Christmas to us. We are insufferably proud of you. Xoxo

12/19/2023

Just 6 families left — looking for a sponsor for Christmas!

If you can sponsor the family of a child who lost his or her parent, you can either take our shopping list and purchase, wrap and deliver the gifts personally, or you can write a check and we’ll do the shopping and delivery for you. Either way, you’ll be bringing Christmas to a kid who lost a parent.

If you’re interested, please message me or Yatooma’s Foundation for the Kids (in honor and loving memory of my father, Manuel Yatooma, 1947-1993). God bless and Merry Christmas!