Honesty, Integrity, Empathy
I am a co-parent with the father of my two middle-school-aged children. During our most recent meeting to figure out part of the summer calendar, I think I almost lost it for a second. There’s traveling baseball, summer vacations, visits up north to grandma or...
A client recently asked me about my educational history. I responded that it was unusual—I majored in biology and then earned a graduate degree in botany. After all that, I took a bit of a left turn into law (some might say a hard left!). But I’ve actually found many...
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 to decide that?...
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 & Lammers—to secure...
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 normal part of...
“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. But is staying together...
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 successful ones aren’t...
Most of us know generally that a harassment restraining order (aka, an “HRO”) is essentially a court order prohibiting a person from bothering us. Beyond that, details may be murky. But if you or someone you love is being subjected to harassment, it is helpful to know...
“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 make of it and of our lives....
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, when the spouses...