Experienced Representation For Family Legal Matters
Help With A Wide Variety Of Family Law Issues
- Child custody and parenting time: Negotiating and implementing custody and parenting time (commonly referred to as “visitation”) arrangements that protect both the best interests of your child and your rights as a parent
- Child support: Working to ensure that the Minnesota child support guidelines are properly and fairly applied and that calculations performed by the court are correct. Ms. Cloutier can also help you seek deviations from guideline recommendations if those are appropriate for your unique situation
- Alimony/spousal maintenance: Helping you determine if spousal support is appropriate and if so, the amount, frequency and duration of payments.
- Property distribution: Working with you to establish and implement a workable plan for the equitable division of marital assets. Elizabeth will make certain that you are awarded all rightful “nonmarital” property and can help you perform a thorough accounting of assets if you suspect your spouse is hiding property
- Motions for temporary relief: Filing motions early in your case to have the court establish emergency payment of child or spousal support, implement temporary child custody and parenting time schedules, and perform a perfunctory distribution of assets or debts
- Motions for modification: The firm is often retained to file motions to modify prior divorce decrees or court orders. If there have been substantial changes in your circumstances (or those of your former spouse) that would warrant a change in the amount of child support you pay or receive, new custody or parenting time arrangements, or a change to spousal support amounts, Ms. Cloutier can ask the court to reconsider their previous orders. Since Minnesota significantly overhauled its child support laws in 2007, the firm has helped many clients modify prior child support orders that are no longer in compliance with the law
- Motions for contempt: In the event that a party fails to pay child support, will not allow parenting time, has not turned over property or has otherwise violated a prior court order, Elizabeth can file a motion to have that party held in contempt of court and seek sanctions
- Establishment of paternity
- Adoption, second-parent adoptions and stepparent adoption
- Grandparents’ rights, including adoptions
- Third-party custody when it is in the best interests of the child
- Domestic partnerships
- Prenuptial, postnuptial and cohabitation agreements
- Domestic abuse proceedings, including seeking temporary restraining orders (TROs) or protective orders aimed at preventing further violence
- Paternity
- Sperm donor and egg donor agreements/ART
- Relocation of a parent
Elizabeth understands that when clients are going through family law proceedings, they experience tremendous stress and frustration. She makes every effort to be available to counsel her clients and to keep the lines of communication open, promptly returning phone calls and responding to emails.
Do You Need Help Resolving A Family Law Issue?
For a free consultation regarding family law matters, please email the firm or call 612-332-5100. Cloutier Law Offices P.A. represents individuals and families in Minneapolis, St. Paul and all around the Twin Cities area.