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Thank You Everyone!
I am retiring the practice after 30 years. To that end, I am not accepting any new matters. I will keep this blog active until next spring because there is valuable content for folks to review relative to family legal matters.
Thank you to all of my clients for allowing me to help you through a difficult time. Thank you for your trust and confidence in me. I’ve known some of you for…
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Legal Descriptions for Real Property in Minnesota Divorces- Get it Right
Legal Descriptions for Real Property in Minnesota Divorces- Get it Right
The legal description of a section of real property is a specific means of identifying with great particularity that section of real property as opposed to all other real property.
Legal descriptions are comprised of letters, words, and numbers that ultimately allow a surveyor to physically set out the boundaries of the property.
The legal description describes to the real property world with…
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Follow-Up to Minnesota Divorce Transfers to Real Property-The Summary Real Estate Disposition Judgment
Follow-Up to Minnesota Divorce Transfers to Real Property-The Summary Real Estate Disposition Judgment
Last week we discussed the importance of using the complete and exact legal description for any real property transferred in a Minnesota divorce proceeding. In summary, the Minnesota divorce decree, the quit claim deed and the Summary Real Estate Disposition Judgment must contain the complete and exact legal description for each piece of real property transferred in a Minnesota divorce. This…
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Legal Descriptions for Real Property in Minnesota Divorces- Get it Right
Legal Descriptions for Real Property in Minnesota Divorces- Get it Right
The legal description of a section of real property is a specific means of identifying with great particularity that section of real property as opposed to all other real property.
Legal descriptions are comprised of letters, words, and numbers that ultimately allow a surveyor to physically set out the boundaries of the property.
The legal description describes to the real property world with…
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Minnesota Divorce and Pre-Divorce Check-List
Minnesota Divorce and Pre-Divorce Check-List
Financials
1. Obtain a copy of your credit report. If your spouse has any secured obligations or opened any joint credit accounts, then the report should have this information.
2. Cancel any joint credit cards if you are able or remove your spouse’s name as a person who may charge on the card.
3. Obtain the most recent quarterly statements of all of your financial accounts.
4. Obtain the most…
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How Do I Use My Attorney in a Minnesota Divorce Mediation?
How Do I Use My Attorney in a Minnesota Divorce Mediation?
Your attorney is your legal dictionary, your advocate, and your knowledgeable source of all law that impacts your case short-term and long-term. What I mean by case is your life from the point of the divorce on and how decisions in mediation affect the following:
How does Minnesota custody and parenting time play out on a day-to-day basis;
What is a fair division of all marital assets in a…
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Estate Planning in Minnesota and Your Digital Inventory-Make it Easy for Your Heirs
Estate Planning in Minnesota and Your Digital Inventory-Make it Easy for Your Heirs
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Estate Planning in Minnesota and Your Digital Inventory-Make it Easy for Your Heirs
Estate Planning in Minnesota and Your Digital Inventory-Make it Easy for Your Heirs
I originally posted this blog in August 2013. Readers appreciated the information and asked for a re-blog. The post relates to how you can plan to terminate your digital life after you go to the great beyond. I confess that I never much thought about my digital afterlife until I researched and wrote this article. I think the tips are worth a review.
Estate plans result in hard copy…
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How Do I Get the Other Side to Mediate In Minnesota Custody or Divorce Case?
How Do I Get the Other Side to Mediate In Minnesota Custody or Divorce Case?
Minnesota Court orders for divorces and other Minnesota family law matters most always include a mediation provision. The mediation provision sets out a requirement that both parties in the legal proceeding must attempt mediation before either of them may return to Court. The foregoing exempts emergency situations.
Simply stated- if Party A wants to modify parenting time or custody or address…
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Minnesota Divorce and Changing Your Name
Minnesota Divorce and Changing Your Name
Many parties incorporate a name change within a Minnesota divorce. Once the divorce is final, then you must follow-through and give notice of your name change. Do it as soon as the divorce is final because it is easy to forget. Print this blog out as a checklist for changing your name following a Minnesota divorce.
Security Administration– SSA has a form that must be completed and…
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Transferring Title to Real Property After a Minnesota Divorce
Transferring Title to Real Property After a Minnesota Divorce
Following a divorce, whether it is based upon a Judge’s trial order or a settlement agreement, there is a title to real property that must be transferred. Title is transferred to whomever has been awarded the family homestead or other real property. The divorce decree standing alone does not transfer title.
Title Standards determine if the documents recorded with a county relative to the title…
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Can I Bring a Contempt Action Against my Ex in a Minnesota Divorce?
Minnesota divorces set out the terms and conditions for division of assets and liabilities; the parties’ custody, parenting time and child support; who pays spousal maintenance also called alimony, if any, among other agreements all of which require some level of performance by both parties or one party. The terms and conditions of the parties’ divorce are Court Orders within one document…
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Minnesotans-- Stay Current on Your Child Support or Lose the Dependency Exemption
Minnesotans– Stay Current on Your Child Support or Lose the Dependency Exemption
A divorced taxpayer attempted to claim his child as a dependent exemption on his federal tax return. The taxpayer was not current in his child support obligations when he filed. The former spouse agreed that taxpayer was entitled to claim the minor child as a dependent, but only if the taxpayer was current in his support obligations. The tax court cited to the parties’ separate divorce…
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A Minnesota Divorce Flow Chart Will Help You Visualize How a Case Moves Along.
A Minnesota Divorce Flow Chart Will Help You Visualize How a Case Moves Along.
A Minnesota divorce case, like other Minnesota family law cases, moves through the system in a manner that is sometimes confusing to pro se litigants or even to parties who have attorneys. Visualizing the process is helpful.
Think of a divorce or other family law case like a train moving from station to station. There are different tracks that the train may roll along all ending up at the same…
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Have Car Will Travel-Changing the Title to the Car After the Divorce
Have Car Will Travel-Changing the Title to the Car After the Divorce
How Do I Change Title to a Car After a Minnesota Divorce? I am often asked the foregoing question. This post will help you change title to a car after a divorce in Minnesota. Worth a another read.
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How Do I Protect My Credit in a Minnesota Divorce?
How Do I Protect My Credit in a Minnesota Divorce?
How a Minnesota divorce decree addresses the issue of debt is important. Party A may be required to pay for the debt and the other non-paying Party B is relying on Party A paying the debt timely and in full as the creditors may require.
Minnesota debt is allocated between the parties in the same manner as assets may be allocated– equitably. Any Minnesota divorce may have three sorts of debt:
De…
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Can I Claim the Federal Tax Dependency Exemption in Minnesota? Separated, Non-Married or Divorced Parents in Minnesota and the Tax Dependency Exemptions for Children
Can I Claim the Federal Tax Dependency Exemption in Minnesota? Separated, Non-Married or Divorced Parents in Minnesota and the Tax Dependency Exemptions for Children
Minnesota now has a new law that outlines the analysis of which parent will be allocated the dependent exemption for the children of Minnesota parents. Courts will look to this statute in the event parents cannot agree on who should get the exemptions. Federal tax rules are implicated as well, but Minnesota has always reserved the right to allocate the exemption. Now, however, this new law sets…
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