Archives: Property Division

Learn about factors that make successful settlements more likely for clients in divorces, business disputes, and other matters.

It’s far more common to accompany a client to a mediation session than to a contested court hearing. But that requires experience and negotiation skills.

With the training available to mediators today and the track record of success, it is close to malpractice for a lawyer to take a client to trial without at least trying mediation.

The WI Supreme Court does not accept many family-law cases, so it was surprising when the justices granted review of Pulkkila v. Pulkkila.

On March 1, 2018, Loeb & Herman will debut Wisconsin Family Law Case Finder, a subscription based legal research service specifically designed for family law attorneys.

Recent court and legislative actions affect the division of military retirement pay and physical placement schedules for divorcing military families.

As expected, the Wisconsin Supreme Court found a way to void the marriage when it issued its decision yesterday in Laubenheimer v. McLeod.

In addition to my previous stated ambivalence regarding prenups in general, a prenup regarding pets seems to me to be particularly silly.

It is common, where there are minor children, for a divorce agreement to require at least the payor of child support and sometimes both parties to maintain life insurance with the children as beneficiaries. A recent unpublished, but citeable, Wisconsin Court of Appeals case has implications for some of these divorce cases.

The issue becomes whether a life insurance provision is in the nature of child support or property division.