In creating a new design for practicelaw last fall, we undertook a full-out review of all the materials available on the old site. In the process, we left behind old materials and put others aside for later review for potential resurrection. One of those that we shunted aside for the time being was the so-called “Schmitz Calculator,” which family law attorneys use to determine the relative marital and non-marital interests in real property. Over the  last few months we’ve had a number of users ask us about the old practicelaw Schmitz Calculator, particularly where we were hiding it.

Well, it’s back and available as one of our family law forms (look for form FAM-021). It has the same capabilities as our old calculator, which originated with family law attorney Bruce Kennedy, and is based on the Schmitz formula the Minnesota Supreme Court developed in Schmitz v. Schmitz. This time, however, we’ve turned the calculator into a PDF form that you can download and keep on your desktop, opening it up when you need to calculate, say, how much non-marital interest your client has coming in that cabin “up north.”