DeLois T. Leapheart of DeLois T. Leapheart, P.C., Midland, Michigan specializes in small businesses, adoptions, criminal law, divorce, probate estates, trusts, and wills. Mrs. Leapheart has been a member of the State Bar of Michigan since 1983, a past president of the Midland County Bar Association and a volunteer of the Ask the Lawyer Program serving Midland, Bay, Saginaw, and Isabella counties. She is also an associate professor teaching business law at Northwood University. She has previously published the following articles: Contractual Limiting Liability, 72 Mich.B.J. 546(1993) and Repudiation and Excuse, 70 Mich.B.J. 286(1991). She also contributed a chapter in Michigan Contract Law, published by the Institute of Continuing Legal Education in 1998.