Marital Property Division Attorneys

Marital Assets - Non-Marital Property - Valuation Issues

The distribution of marital property or the division of assets is probably one of the most difficult issues to resolve, and often at the center of any divorce. Our marital property division attorneys at Jensen, Mullen & McSweeney, PLLP assist men and women throughout the Twin Cities metro area with distribution of property issues. We have extensive experience in the area of Minnesota marital property laws. In addition, our goal is to provide you with the most cost-effective resolution of your property issue.

For information about the secret of our success and why you should consider retaining our firm to handle your marital property dispute, please visit our Firm Overview page.

Skilled Marital Property Division Lawyer

Our family law attorneys have over thirty five years of combined marital property dispute experience. We understand the complex issues involved in distributing marital property. Our extensive experience with marital property disputes includes the following:

• Classification Issues - including whether the property or asset in question is "marital property". In Minnesota, it is assumed that all property is marital property and the burden of showing that a particular asset is not marital property is on the party making that claim. Also, Minnesota family law courts will generally not consider any funds that are commingled with marital funds to be non-marital property.
• Valuation Issues - this is one of the trickiest areas in family law, and includes issues with valuing professional businesses (doctors, lawyers, accountants, engineers, etc.), as well as valuing wholly owned companies, minority shares in small corporations, stocks, pension plans, stock options, inheritances, etc.
• Valuation Date Issues - another tricky area where the issue is when the valuation should take place on a particular asset. For example, should it be at the first hearing? At the time of separation? Or some other time? It is not difficult to see that time can dramatically change the value of an asset.
• Hiding Assets - another issue that sometimes comes up, either during the divorce, or subsequent to the divorce is a spouse who has hidden assets.

Contact Our Divorce and Asset Division

For more information on Minnesota marital property laws, including calculation and classification issues, or to discuss your specific marital asset division issue, please schedule a confidential consultation with an experienced marital property division attorney by calling us at (952) 893-5532 or filling out our family law intake form on our Contact Us page. We are here for you.