All parents face challenges when a child approaches college age, but divorced parents face extra challenges: the end of child support, possible changes to parenting time, and, of course, financial aid. Few families can manage the expense of college w…
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Have you ever heard the expression “blind man’s zoo?” It refers to a story in which a number of blind men surrounded an elephant and were attempting to describe it. One with a hand on the trunk, said the animal was like a palm tree.…
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It’s common to hear about parents breaking the bank to pay for a child’s dream wedding; comedic movies and TV shows have even been built around this premise. But nobody makes a show about parents who go broke paying for their child’…
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Children need love, guidance, care, and protection. Usually parents provide that care, often with the support of other adults in the child’s life. But as we all know, there are times when biological parents, for whatever reason, aren’t in…
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Divorce is never easy. But if you’re a busy professional, such as a physician, dentist, certified professional accountant, or an attorney, divorce holds special challenges for you. You may be worried about the impact that the divorce will have…
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If you divorce when your child is a teen, they will have friends with divorced parents and a frame of reference from which to understand their new reality. If you divorce when your child is a baby, they’ll never remember a time when their paren…
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When you’re in the middle of a child custody dispute, there are a lot of things to think about: how legal custody will be arranged, what your parenting time schedule will be, child support, and so on. One of the last things parents tend to thin…
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The prevalence of so-called “gray divorce” is increasing: more and more people are choosing to divorce in their fifties, sixties, and even beyond. They may have stayed together “for the sake of the children” and decided to par…
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When our children are small, we know every little detail about them. As they grow older and more independent, they develop friendships, ideas, and interests that they may or may not share with us. For divorced parents, who don’t have their chil…
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Often in our practice we see or hear of clients who are seeking an attorney of a specific gender when it’s time to divorce. Frequently, the client feels that having a male or female attorney will somehow help their case. Women who feel theyR…
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There’s something so final about receiving your signed Minnesota divorce decree, like a gavel striking a table. It’s over. It’s done. Of course, certain aspects of your decree can be modified, and often should, like child support, c…
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Two of the most common reasons that marriages end in divorce are incompatibility and financial problems. Those two factors aren’t mutually exclusive, of course, which means that many people are dealing with both financial pressure and a spouse…
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Despite the significant progress of the LGBTQ movement over the last several decades homophobia is alive and well in America. I was recently listening to a call-in advice podcast. The caller, a mother of a minor child who resided outside of Minnesota…
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Dividing assets can be a contentious aspect of divorce even when you don’t have much to fight over. When a small business is among the marital assets, property division can go from contentious to all-out war. This is true for a number of reason…
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You knew divorce would mean splitting your assets. But now you’ve come to the point where you actually have to start identifying what those assets are, and committing them (as well as your liabilities) to paper in the discovery phase of your di…
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