Preparing For Divorce
The Divorce Process has been made more civil and informal with numerous recent rule and law changes to require or strongly encourage mediation or other alternative dispute resolution and to limit...
View ArticleSignificant Other’s Can Impact Custody Decisions
In an unpublished opinion in Newman vs. Newman, A15-0561 (Minn.Ct. App. Dec.21, 2015) the court of appeals reviewed an appeal from a divorce involving a 16 year marriage involving three minor children...
View ArticleGray Divorces Are Increasing!
A recent development is that in the last several years I have represented many individuals in their fifties and even sixties who are commencing divorces after many years of marriage. Twenty years ago I...
View ArticleCohabitation May Now be Grounds to Modify Spousal Maintenance
The legislature recently passed an amendment and new law to be effective August 1, 2016, to allow a court to consider Cohabitation as grounds to modify, reduce or terminate spousal maintenance....
View ArticleDivorce Can Have Some Positive Benefits For Children
I have seen many ugly divorces and custody battles. It is without doubt an ugly divorce where children are used as pawns or placed in the middle of conflict will cause serious emotional harm to...
View ArticleLack Of Employment Increases Probability of Divorce
In Fusion on August 1, 2016 Author, Taryn Hillin, noted that an extensive Harvard Study confirms that men who are not able to find employment or play the role of “breadwinner” are more likely to get...
View ArticleResolving Parenting Disputes With A Parenting Consultant
Many Family Law Lawyers and some Judges are now encouraging parties to stipulate and agree to use a Parenting Consultant to resolve parenting time disputes in divorces, post dissolution issues,...
View ArticlePitfalls In Handling Your Own Divorce
I have seen an increase in people trying to draft their own Divorce Judgment and Decree, which often leads to numerous problems and additional fees and expense to redraft the Decree or for the need to...
View ArticleSpousal Maintenance And Income
In Curtis v. Curtis, A14-1841, (Minn 2016) the Supreme Court reaffirmed that a trial court has broad discretion to consider investment income to determine whether a spouse is need of spousal...
View ArticleParental Alienation Issues Negatively Impact Children
A very troublesome issue in some Custody and Parenting Time disputes and Divorces is when a parent intentionally attempts to alienate the children from the other parent. Trying to prove the alienation...
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