Dakota County Law Blog

I have many conversations with clients about how marital retirement assets are valued and divided. The law, for all intents and purposes, divides marital retirement assets at the date of marriage and then again at a valuation date during a Minnesota divorce action. The valuation date will not start until a petition for dissolution of marriage and a summons…

Although most people are not aware of it Minnesota law grants sole legal and physical custody to the mother of children who were born-out-of-wedlock. This means that fathers who have children with a woman they are not married to have inferior legal rights to their children because they are not married. This is often very difficult information for…