Maple Grove, MN
Family Lawyer at Maple Grove, MN
Practice Areas: Family, Child Custody ... +7 more
OUTCOME: The court awarded Kaitlyn J. Andren's client sole physical and sole legal custody of her grandson and ordered both of the child's parents to pay child support.
Kaitlyn J. Andren successfully helped her client to obtain sole physical and sole legal custody of her grandson and also obtain a court order requiring the child's mother and the child's father to pay ... child support.
OUTCOME: The court denied the father's motion to modify custody and ordered father to start paying child support.
Kaitlyn J. Andren's client had sole physical and sole legal custody of her great granddaughter. The child's mother was not involved in the child's life. Approximately four years after Kaitlyn J. Andr ... en's client was awarded custody of the child, the child's father who had only had limited, supervised parenting time with the child, brought a motion asking the court to award him sole physical and sole legal custody of the child. The judge agreed with Kaitlyn J. Andren that the father failed to meet his burden of proof and denied the father's motion to modify custody. The judge ordered that Kaitlyn J. Andren's client would continue to have sole physical and sole legal custody of her great granddaughter and also ordered the father to start paying child support.
OUTCOME: The Minnesota Court of Appeals reversed the district court's decision to issue an Order for Protection and remanded to the district court.
Kaitlyn J. Andren assisted her client by successfully arguing to the Minnesota Court of Appeals that the district court abused its discretion by issuing an Order for Protection against her client. The ... Minnesota Court of Appeals agreed with Kaitlyn J. Andren that the evidence in the record did not support the district court's finding that Kaitlyn J. Andren's client agreed to the Order for Protection and understood the Order for Protection would be enforced as if he had admitted to domestic abuse. Accordingly, the Minnesota Court of Appeals reversed the district court's decision and remanded the case to the district court.
OUTCOME: Spousal Maintenance Obligation Terminated.
Kaitlyn J. Andren helped her client to terminate his permanent spousal maintenance obligation to his ex-wife. The parties divorced in 1991. In 2017, Kaitlyn J. Andren's client was paying spousal mainte ... nance to his ex-wife in the amount of $72,000.00 per year. Meanwhile, the ex-wife had been cohabitating with her romantic partner, a college professor, since 1997. The ex-wife did not agree to the spousal maintenance obligation being terminated and argued that Kaitlyn J. Andren's client should be required to continue paying spousal maintenance to her. In an attempt to settle the matter outside of court, Kaitlyn J. Andren's client offered to pay his ex-wife $30,000.00 per year for 5 years ($150,000.00 total) and then terminate his spousal maintenance obligation. The ex-wife rejected the settlement offer, and the parties litigated the issue in court. Ultimately, the district court judge agreed with Kaitlyn J. Andren and terminated her client's spousal maintenance obligation retroactive to the date Kaitlyn J. Andren's client served his ex-wife with the motion to modify spousal maintenance.