If you are a parent considering divorce or another change in family status, tax time may have you wondering about how tax filing works as you move forward. For example, which parent will claim the child(ren) on their income tax return? And who gets t…
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Streit Law founder and owner Angie Streit and former colleague Katie Lammers had a big win in the Minnesota Court of Appeals this month. Prior to launching Streit Law, Angie worked hard with Katie—partner and head of family law at Heimerl & Lam…
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In many (or even most) marriages, spouses take on roles over time. Wife handles the lawn and husband manages vehicle maintenance. He takes the kids to school, but she picks them up in the afternoon. You get the idea—divide and conquer. It’s a nor…
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“We stayed together for the kids.” Every family law attorney has probably heard this before. The client is saying this as they explain how they now find themselves in the midst of a divorce…maybe after years (or decades) of an unhappy marriage.…
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In a 2018 Hidden Brain episode on NPR (click to listen), host Shankar Vedantam covers the topic of why modern marriage is so hard. Vedamtam starts with, “[S]o many marriages become unhappy. Some dissolve. Some end in divorce. And even the successfu…
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“Nomen est omen” is an ancient Roman proverb meaning “the name is a sign.” It captured the evergreen idea that we tend to gravitate towards a way of being that reflects our name. But there is the name we are given and then there is what we ma…
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Many parents do not realize until they experience a custody or parenting-time dispute that NO – custody and parenting time are not the same thing. Both custody and parenting time are issues to be resolved in Minnesotadivorceproceedings, for example…
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