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Blog: Court

Child Support Modification: Not Automatic Upon A Child’s Emancipation

  • September 27, 2022
  • Tim Simonson
  • Child Support,  Children,  Minnesota

What happens to a child support obligation when a child becomes emancipated? It doesn’t necessarily terminate, or even drop. Minnesota law provides 3 possibilities: child support that is ordered in…

Third Party Custody Rights: When a Child’s Best Interests Override Parent’s Rights to 25% Parenting Time

  • September 13, 2022
  • Tim Simonson
  • Child Custody,  Children,  Minnesota,  Uncategorised

A Minnesota court will award custody rights to a third party (often a grandparent) when a child has been living with that third party for extended periods, without the presence…

When Alleging the Conduct is Worse than the Conduct Alleged.

  • August 17, 2022
  • Tim Simonson
  • Child Custody,  Children,  Divorce,  Minnesota

Like the boy that cried wolf, losing credibility can be a parent’s undoing in a child custody dispute. For example, calling the cops on mother for serving your child mac…

Tens Don’t Marry Twos

  • May 17, 2021
  • Marc Beyer
  • Communication,  Courts,  Divorce

I clerked for a District Court Judge my first job out of law school. Prior to court hearings, the Judge regularly brought the lawyers back into his chambers to privately…

Paternity; Still a Matter of Biology

  • April 14, 2020
  • Tim Simonson
  • Children,  Courts,  Minnesota,  Parents

In Minnesota, the legal relationship between a child and parent is recognized because there are rights awarded and obligations imposed by that relationship. The State has an interest in not…

Posting Your Kid’s Images on Social Media

  • April 3, 2020
  • Tim Simonson
  • Children,  Minnesota

Recently, the Minnesota Court of Appeals was asked to consider whether a Family Court judge can prohibit a parent from featuring or mentioning his children in YouTube videos and remove…

Physical Discipline or Domestic Abuse?

  • March 19, 2019
  • Tim Simonson
  • Domestic Abuse,  Minnesota

I hope this is not a distinction we need to spend a lot of time worrying about; either way someone’s getting hit, and unless we’re talking about contact sports or…

ENFORCING SPOUSAL MAINTENANCE AND CHILD SUPPORT FROM ANOTHER STATE

  • October 30, 2018
  • Tim Simonson
  • Courts,  Divorce,  Minnesota,  Spousal Maintenance

Minnesota courts recognize that not all Minnesota divorced residents became divorced by a Minnesota court.  Many people who move to this State, became divorced by the courts of another State,…

Watch Tim Simonson Speak To Kare 11 News About Privacy Rights in Divorce Matters

  • October 23, 2018
  • Tim Simonson
  • Divorce,  Domestic Abuse,  Lawyer,  Minnesota

Recently, the divorce file of a high profile public servant, Representative Keith Ellison, brought to attention the issue of divorce files in family court.  The question raised was whether a…

The Judge Knows All – Or Do They?

  • September 25, 2018
  • Marc Beyer
  • Courts,  Divorce

Every Judge was first a lawyer.  In many cases, they are former litigators (meaning they regularly appeared in Court) although not always.  But even as litigators, they probably focused their…

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