Attorney Jason Charles Brown's Legal Cases

Child custody

Custody

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OUTCOME: After 18 months of contentious litigation, and a three day trial, our client was granted sole physical custody of the children.

Our client was a stay-at-home mother of two young boys. She suffered from postpartum depression, which did not affect her ability to effectively parent the children. However, she attempted to take her ... own life just prior to the separation of the parties, and again about one month following separation, under stress of marital conflict. Following her treatment and release, husband refused to allow the children to return to her care, claiming it was “unsafe” for them. For over a year, husband limited her interaction with the children. Our experts opined that she did not present a danger to herself, or the children, and that the root cause of her breakdown involved being prescribed the wrong type of medication for her depression.

Child custody

Custody

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OUTCOME: The case settled on a full and final basis in favor of our client after our lawyers convinced the court to award joint physical custody at a temporary motion hearing.

Our client was a police officer and father of a special needs child. His schedule afforded him lots of time with his son prior to the dissolution of his marriage. Wife petitioned Anoka County (known at ... the time for declining an award of joint physical custody – especially when the parties don’t agree on it) for sole physical custody.

Child custody

Custody

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OUTCOME: After a three day trial, our client was allowed to remain in Arizona with the children and was awarded sole physical custody.

We represented the mother of two young boys. Husband moved our client, and the children, to Minnesota from Colorado under the pretense that it was for the purpose of being “closer to his family.” In re ... ality, he was having an affair with his high school sweetheart, and wanted to live near her. Not six months after the move, husband served our client with divorce papers. Our client immediately took the children to Arizona, to be near her family. At trial, we presented recordings of husband’s mistreatment of our client in front of the children, husband’s abusive conduct directed toward our client’s family (such as spitting on her wheelchair-bound mother during a visit to Arizona), and making the children feel guilty for living so far away from him. Husband testified, under oath, that he had not done any of these things. He didn’t know about our recorded evidence, which was subsequently presented to impeach him.

Child support

Child Support

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OUTCOME: The vast majority of our client’s arrears were forgiven by the court. Wife sought review by the Minnesota Court of Appeals. Her claims were denied.

Our client was the father of two teenage boys who were experiencing mistreatment by their mother and her new husband. As a result, they elected to stay primarily with dad. Our client was under a court ... order to pay the wife child support, even though the boys rarely saw their mother. Despite that fact, wife sought to enforce the support provisions in the divorce decree. She also sought retroactive support of over $42,000.

Child support

Child Support

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OUTCOME: our client’s arrears were deemed satisfied and his “wife” owes husband nearly $20,000.00

Our client was a Canadian citizen. He and his wife were married in 1989. Their daughter was born in 1990. They divorced in 1991, following wife’s return to the United States without Husband, who could ... not enter the country because of a lack of documentation. A default decree was issued against Husband, who was ordered to pay child support and permanent spousal maintenance (despite a very short marriage). Over the course of decades, our client failed to make many payments to Wife. Some child support and alimony payments were issued. Still, the county was seeking arrears in excess of $40,000.00 from husband. Husband retained our firm. An investigation by our attorneys revealed that at the time the wife married our client, she was still married to another man, rendering the marriage of the parties void as a matter of law. Husband had no idea she was married. Because one must be a “spouse” in order to collect spousal maintenance, the court credited husband for all maintenance payments made from 1991 to 2013 and retroactively eliminated alimony.

Alimony

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OUTCOME: The court denied husband’s request to modify. The value of our client’s ongoing maintenance award exceeds $1,000,000.

Our client divorced her husband several years before we were retained to represent her. He owned a portion of a successful litigation consulting business that generated annual income in excess of $200, ... 000 for husband. Husband also received an annual bonus in excess of $300,000. The divorce decree indicated that husband would pay our client ongoing spousal maintenance of $7,000 per month and 25% of his annual bonus income for ten years. This was partially based on need, and partially based on our client’s agreement not to demand her equity in the business at the time of divorce. A few years after entry of the divorce decree, husband sought to amend the decree, based on the claim that he “never expected that his bonus income would be so substantial.” Husband was represented by high-profile lawyers from two different law firms at the hearing. During the course of litigation, we uncovered pre-dissolution evidence that presumed his bonus income would actually exceed that which he actually received. At the hearing we argued the complex principles of the parol evidence evidence rule permitted the receipt of this evidence into the record. The court agreed.

Jason Charles Brown's Legal Cases (6)

Custody

Custody

Custody

Child Support

Child Support

Alimony