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…
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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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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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You may not think of it as one, but divorce is, technically, a lawsuit. And like other lawsuits, the rules of civil procedure apply. This means that each party involved in the law suit is entitled to “discover” facts and documents from th…
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Minnesota, like a majority of states, divides property in divorce according to a system of “equitable distribution.” This means that marital property isn’t necessarily split exactly equally between a divorcing husband and wife, but…
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Divorce is a stressful process. Between worrying about the well-being of your children, your financial future, and grieving the loss of the marriage you hoped to have, there’s not a lot of energy left over for anything else. But there is one mo…
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As a parent, you want to do everything possible to protect your children. You buy safety equipment, research the best daycare centers and schools, and save for their future. A surprising number of parents, however, don’t do one of the most impo…
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If you are receiving spousal maintenance (alimony), and your divorce decree states that payments will terminate on remarriage, what do you do when you meet and fall in love with someone? If you’re like many people, the answer is to move in toge…
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Some unhappy couples stay together for the sake of the kids. Others do it because of religious beliefs or because they can’t afford to live apart. And some married couples have put off divorce to avoid one spouse being removed from the other sp…
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We at Mundahl Law regularly blog about family law issues, but from time to time, we’ll be sharing this space with clients and others who have experienced the Minnesota family law system from the client’s perspective. This is one such stor…
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Studies have shown that when undergoing life changes, the more control people have over a transition, the more successfully they navigate it. Divorce, naturally, is one of the largest and most disruptive changes that any of us can go through. That…
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In this latest installment of our series of blog posts on Minnesota child custody law, we’ll focus on parents’ health issues, and the impact they may have on the outcome of a custody matter. As you likely know, in 2015, the “best intere…
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Not all that long ago, two assumptions were prevalent in family law: one parent, almost always the mother, was the “primary caretaker” of the children; and the primary caretaker should receive some degree of preference in custody determinations.…
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