Michael C. Taylor is a Partner at Kirk Huth. Mike focuses his practice on advising individuals in estate planning, probate, estate and trust administration, and probate litigation. Mike has extensive experience representing personal representatives, trustees, other fiduciaries and beneficiaries in will and trust contests and other complex estate administration matters. Mike is the head of Kirk Huth’s estate planning and probate division and is a member of the State Bar of Michigan – Probate and Estate Planning Section.
In addition to practicing law, Mike currently serves as the Mayor of the City of Sterling Heights. He was first elected to the Sterling Heights City Council in 2009 at the age of 26 and was appointed as Mayor in 2014, becoming the youngest mayor of any city with more than 100,000 residents in the United States – a distinction he held for several years. Mike is actively involved in the South East Michigan Council of Governments, the Michigan Mayors Association, Michigan Municipal League, and U.S. Conference of Mayor, along with a number of other civic and charitable organizations. Mike graduated from Wayne State University Law School and received a B.A. in Economics from Kalamazoo College, where he played for its Division III Football Team and studied abroad in Oaxaca, Mexico. He attended high school at Lutheran High School North in Macomb Township and currently resides in Sterling Heights with his wife Christina and children, Clara, Hudson and Teddy.
