Meet Michele P. Fuller, Esq. — Founder and Special Needs Parent

You shouldn't have to master every system to protect your child's future.

You already carry the appointments, benefits, routines, relationships, and decisions that make your child's life work. Planning for the future shouldn't become another full-time job resting entirely on your shoulders.

As a mom of four, including a child with special needs, Michele understands that responsibility personally. She built Fuller Special Needs Law to help families turn everything they know and manage into a Fuller Life™ Plan that can keep working.

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WHY MICHELE UNDERSTANDS

She knows this work from both sides of the table.

Michele didn't build Fuller from a legal theory. She built it around the question special needs parents carry into the quietest hours: who will protect my child when I am no longer the person holding every piece together?

That question shaped her legal career, the founding of Fuller Special Needs Law, and her leadership of Advocacy Inc. It's why the conversation begins with the child's life, not a stack of forms.

"The plan has to work for a real child, not an abstract beneficiary."

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THE PROBLEM MICHELE SOLVES

The real problem is not a missing document.
It is everything the document may leave behind.

A will or trust may address assets. It does not automatically transfer the knowledge, judgment, benefits awareness, and coordination your child's life depends on.

Who will know what I know about my child?

Will benefits and resources keep working together?

Will the next decision-maker have direction, not just responsibility?

"A trust document without a care plan is a guess with legal formatting."

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THE FULLER LIFE^TM PLAN

A legal plan built around your child's actual life.

Michele and the Fuller team connect the person, the legal documents, the future decision-makers, and the ongoing responsibilities through one clear planning process.

1

We Learn Your Child's World

The conversation begins with your child's needs, routines, relationships, resources, and the future you want to help make possible.

2

We Build the Legal Plan

The team develops the legal structure designed to protect benefits and give future decision-makers meaningful direction.

3

We Make Sure It Works—Then Keep It Working

The plan is treated as an ongoing responsibility, not a one-time transaction or a binder placed on a shelf.

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What choosing Michele and Fuller should feel like.
From being responsible for everything to having a plan others can follow.

You don't have to explain why the details matter.

Michele understands that a routine, relationship, or benefit may be central to your child's well-being.

You are heard before you are advised.

The planning conversation begins with your child and family—not a generic estate-planning checklist.

The pieces become one plan.

The legal documents, benefits, people, and ongoing responsibilities are considered together.

The next person receives direction.

Future decision-makers inherit more than paperwork. They receive a clearer picture of what needs to happen next.

EXPERIENCE YOU CAN TRUST

A founder's authority built through service, leadership, and lived responsibility.

Michele's credentials matter because they show who families are trusting with a complicated, deeply personal plan. They support the promise. They are not the promise.

Lived Authority

A parent who understands the question

Michele is a mom of four, including a child with special needs. She knows the planning burden is personal before it is legal.

Legal Leadership

A career centered on disability planning

Her service includes State Bar leadership, national advisory roles, and work as a Special Assistant Attorney General in the Flint Water litigation.

Lifetime Infrastructure

A plan designed to continue

Michele founded Fuller Special Needs Law and leads Advocacy Inc., connecting legal planning with long-term administration under one roof.

SELECTED CREDENTIALS

She has helped shape how special needs planning is practiced and taught.

Administering the Michigan Special Needs Trust, by Michele P. Fuller-Urbatsch and Kevin Urbatsch

✓Founder of Fuller Special Needs Law

✓President of Advocacy Inc.

✓Former Chair of the State Bar of Michigan Elder Law and Disability Rights Section

✓Advisory service with the Academy of Special Needs Planners and the Institute for Continuing Legal Education

✓Co-author of special needs trust books and professional articles with attorney Kevin Urbatsch

✓Recipient of the State Bar of Michigan Unsung Hero Award

✓Recognized by Super Lawyers

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TEACHING AND ADVOCACY

She helps families, attorneys, and fiduciaries understand what a working plan requires.

Michele writes and speaks about special needs planning because a better-informed professional community leads to better planning conversations for families.

✓American Bar Association

✓Brain Injury Association of Michigan

✓Michigan Guardianship Association

✓Michigan Association for Justice

✓National special needs planning programs

✓Professional and continuing-education publications

Your child should have a plan that knows what you know.

Michele and the Fuller Special Needs Law team can help you build a Fuller Life™ Plan centered on your child's life, dignity, benefits, and future.

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