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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… Read More

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… Read More

Over the past few years, a new trend in the legal profession has started to emerge: limited scope representation. Also known as “unbundling”, limited scope representation means that instead of hiring an attorney to take your case from start to fi… Read More

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… Read More

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… Read More

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… Read More

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… Read More

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… Read More

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… Read More

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… Read More

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… Read More

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… Read More

Fifty or more years ago, the residential landscape of America looked different than it does today. Families settled in one place, sometimes within walking distance of extended family members. Children often lived in the same house for their whole chi… Read More