(August 3, 2018, 10:47 AM EDT) -- LANSING, Mich. — By a 4-3 margin, the Michigan Supreme Court ruled July 31 in what was deemed a case of first impression that complete, intentional physical and emotional absence for more than one year is required to establish that a spouse was “willfully absent” from his or her decedent (In re: Estate of Erwin, Nos. 153980-153981, Mich. Sup., 2018 Mich. LEXIS 1570)....