The Supreme Court’s decision in Haefele v. Haefele changed the landscape in child support litigation involving owners of closely-held businesses. Before Haefele, disputes in such cases frequently centered on the availability of the owner’s income. The reason for retaining earnings, degree of control, and true cash flow were always topics of inquiry and debate. After Haefele, these considerations still matter, but not with respect to calculating income and […]

Business law attorney Jennie A. Clarke will be joined by real estate attorney Mollie R. Anderson on November 18, 2013 to present Henson Efron’s second seminar in conjunction with WomenVenture – “Real Estate & Landlord/Tenant Matters.” The seminar will address legal issues regarding leasing of commercial real estate space and landlord/tenant negotiations, and will include […]

The importance of vocational assessments became unmistakable after Passolt v. Passolt but while some types of evaluations are provided for by statute, none exist for vocational evaluations. Read family law attorneys Alan C. Eidsness and Jaime Driggs’ analysis on requesting vocational evaluations after Graybow v. Graybow. The article is part of a series previously printed […]

Indian law attorney David Bradley Olsen is optimistic after the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in Portland, Oregon, dismissed the Native voting rights lawsuit, Wandering Medicine v. McCulloch, on October 30, 2013.  The Montana tribal members’ appeal was dismissed as moot because it applied to reservation polling places that had been denied for the 2012 election, […]

Family law attorneys Alan C. Eidsness and Jaime Driggs co-authored “Parenting Consultants: Lessons from the Case Law,” which covers recent court decisions that shed light on the challenging issues raised by the use of parenting consultants. The article is part of a series previously printed in Minnesota Lawyer concerning topics relevant to the area of […]

Business law attorney and managing partner Clark D. Opdahl was recently interviewed in the Minneapolis Star Tribune to discuss the benefits of being part of Legal Netlink Alliance, an international consortium of law firms sharing legal knowledge and providing legal services to clients around the world. “[W]e can identify firms in other jurisdictions that will take […]