Dolores M. Coulter

Attorney at Law

8341 Office Park Dr. Ste C

Grand Blanc, MI 48439

Phone:  (810) 603-0801

 Email: coulterdm@sbcglobal.net

 

 

Attorney Profile

 
 

 

Dolores Coulter practiced law in Michigan for over 40 years.  For the last 25 years she focused her practice on elder law. She is a graduate of the Harvard Law School and received her undergraduate degree from Marygrove College in Detroit.

In 2007-2008 she served as chair of the Elder Law and Disability Rights Section of the State Bar of Michigan, which has a membership of over 1,000 Michigan attorneys.  In addition to her law practice she has been actively involved in community efforts to improve the well-being and quality of life for seniors in the Genesee County area.  She was a founding member of the Genesee County Elder Abuse Task Force and served as its chair from 1999 until  2010 when it  merged with the Sheriff's Elder Abuse and Exploitation Prevention Program.    After the Elder Abuse Alliance, a non-profit charitable corporation, ,took over the work of the Sheriff's program in 2013, she was elected to  its Board of Directors and is currently serving as its President.  .

As a member of the senior millage committee she joined with senior center directors and the local Commission on Aging in a successful effort to pass a senior millage that currently generates over 6 million dollars each year for services to Genesee County seniors. 

She authored the chapter on guardianships and conservatorships in Advising the Older Client or Client With a Disability, a publication of the Institute of Continuing Legal Education (ICLE) from 2008-2015  and co-authored the chapter on Judgments in Michigan Civil Procedure During Trial (ICLE 2nd ed 1989). 

She also has an interest in land use planning and in 2009 she was  appointed to the Grand Blanc Township Planning Commission.   

After her retirement in August, 2016, she began doing volunteer work with the Michigan Medicare Medicaid Assistance Program as a health benefits counselor, assisting older adults and individuals with disabilities in navigating the Medicare and Medicaid  health care maze.

 

 

 

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