The Minnesota Supreme Court is scheduled to hear a case that brings up important issues about domestic violence. The case involves a woman who had her driver's license revoked after she was arrested for drunk driving. Her defense was that she had to drive in order to...
Minnesota residents who are going through a divorce don't want to be married to their spouse anymore, but they will have to continue to deal with each other while they settle the divorce. And if they have children, their dealings with each other won't come to an end...
Imagine that you and your spouse have decided to get divorced after a few years of marriage. Before you got married, you requested that you draw up a prenup to protect your assets. The prenuptial agreement held up in court, but soon after your divorce you get a bill...
One of the most time-consuming and technically difficult parts of a divorce in Minnesota is the process of property division. One way to avoid some of this trouble is to decide many property division issues in advance, before the wedding, through a prenuptial...
When Minnesota parents go through a divorce, one of the most emotionally difficult issues to decide involves who stays with the kids and for how much time. The courts presume that some sort of joint custody will be in the best interests of the child, if the parents...
When you are a parent, back-to-school season is always hectic. If you are divorced, however, the chaos is often magnified substantially. Not only do you have to worry about making sure your kids are prepared for school and their extracurricular activities, you have to...
At the end of a marriage, the two parties must list all their assets, divide the separate property from the marital property and then divide the marital property in a way that meets Minnesota's standards of fairness. This is the process known as property division, and...
Divorcing at a later age is very different than going through a divorce after just a few years of marriage. When you divorce later in life, you probably won't have to worry about child custody like younger couples do, but property division will be extremely...
As this blog has noted in prior posts, when Minnesota began legally recognizing same-sex marriages on August 1, it also began recognizing same-sex divorce. At least one Minnesota resident has already taken advantage of this development, filing for divorce from a...
The first legally recognized same-sex marriages in Minnesota took place on August 1, and dozens of couples jumped at the opportunity. Amid these celebrations, it would be understandable if nobody wanted to talk about the related issue of same-sex divorce. Nonetheless,...
