We periodically review the “Monster” Stipulated Judgment and Decree on practicelaw. And while we initially set out to review it quarterly, that is now turning into periodic reviews that roughly approximate three times each year. We just completed our last review and made only minor changes, mostly related to updating statutory citations throughout the document. …
Monster Judgment and Decree, Now Updated
If you are a Minnesota family law attorney, you’ve probably seen the “monster” stipulated judgment and decree that more than thirty family law attorneys created two years ago. Since that time, practicelaw has taken on the task of reviewing it and revising it when necessary, with a goal of reviewing it four times a year. We …
Updated Monster Judgment and Decree
In September 2008, our inaugural post highlighted the complexity of drafting a form version of a Stipulated Judgment and Decree for a family law matter. practicelaw posted a Microsoft Word version a month later and released an automated version in mndocs shortly after that. But it was not our work. It was the result at …
Resurrecting the Schmitz Calculator
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 …
New Divorce Petitions
To round out practicelaw’s collection of new family law forms, we’ve added new sample petitions for dissolution of marriage. Six sample petitions and a new clause library are now available on practicelaw as Microsoft Word documents. We created the new sample petitions to fit common fact patterns, ranging from a divorce without kids and no spousal maintenance …
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