About Us: Mary Irene Johnson, Attorney at Law, Family law attorney at Johnson Law Firm, P.A. Mary Irene Johnson, Attorney at Law, Johnson Law Firm, P.A. is located in Virginia, MN 55792 and practices exclusively in the area of Minnesota family law for the last 25 years.
Opening her own private practice in 1993 in Virginia, Minnesota in St. Louis County, Sixth Judicial District, client representation includes traveling to the courthouses located in the cities of Virginia, Hibbing, (St. Louis County, MN) Grand Rapids (Itasca County, MN) and International Falls (Koochiching County, MN).Born in Virginia, Minnesota, Attorney Johnson graduated from Roosevelt High School in 1984.
An only child, her mother was a special education teacher at the Hibbing High School, and her father was the milkman, a business owner of the dairy originally Johnson Bros. Dairy, and later, Land O' Lakes. Upon high school graduation, she attended the University of North Dakota in Grand Forks, North Dakota, and graduated with honors, Magna Cum Laude, in 1988 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology and English.
Opening her own private practice in 1993 in Virginia, Minnesota in St. Louis County, Sixth Judicial District, client representation includes traveling to the courthouses located in the cities of Virginia, Hibbing, (St. Louis County, MN) Grand Rapids (Itasca County, MN) and International Falls (Koochiching County, MN).Born in Virginia, Minnesota, Attorney Johnson graduated from Roosevelt High School in 1984.
An only child, her mother was a special education teacher at the Hibbing High School, and her father was the milkman, a business owner of the dairy originally Johnson Bros. Dairy, and later, Land O' Lakes. Upon high school graduation, she attended the University of North Dakota in Grand Forks, North Dakota, and graduated with honors, Magna Cum Laude, in 1988 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology and English.
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Divorce
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Divorce or Dissolution of Marriage: Divorce is a legal Court process where the court has control over and will issue an order effecting every area of a party's life.
Divorce involves your income and how much of your income you will get to keep and how much of it you will have to pay the other party for support or spousal maintenance.
Divorce involves your pension, your real estate, your liability for debts incurred by you or your spouse during your marriage.
Divorce effects your children, how much and how often you will get to see them.
Divorce involves your income and how much of your income you will get to keep and how much of it you will have to pay the other party for support or spousal maintenance.
Divorce involves your pension, your real estate, your liability for debts incurred by you or your spouse during your marriage.
Divorce effects your children, how much and how often you will get to see them.
Spousal Maintenance
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Unlike child support, there is no standard formula for calculating spousal maintenance in Minnesota.
The evidence that the court looks at must be relevant to the factors set forth in Minnesota Statutes 518.552.
Spousal maintenance is not meant to be an income equalizer.
Just because your spouse earns more does not automatically mean the court will grant maintenance.
Balancing the statutory factors, along with the length of the marriage and the disparities in income, the court looks at need of one party versus ability to pay of the other party.
The evidence that the court looks at must be relevant to the factors set forth in Minnesota Statutes 518.552.
Spousal maintenance is not meant to be an income equalizer.
Just because your spouse earns more does not automatically mean the court will grant maintenance.
Balancing the statutory factors, along with the length of the marriage and the disparities in income, the court looks at need of one party versus ability to pay of the other party.
Parenting Time
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Per Minnesota law, there is a rebuttable presumption that a parent is entitled to receive at least 25% of the parenting time.
If you are an unmarried father, you must initiate a court action to obtain your legal rights to visitation and custody by obtaining a court order.
Unmarried fathers have no custody or visitation rights to their children until they obtain a court order granting them rights.
This is true even if you both signed a Recognition of Parentage.
You cannot complain that your child's mother denied you visitation to your child if you never went to court to be awarded rights to visitation in the first place.
If you are an unmarried father, you must initiate a court action to obtain your legal rights to visitation and custody by obtaining a court order.
Unmarried fathers have no custody or visitation rights to their children until they obtain a court order granting them rights.
This is true even if you both signed a Recognition of Parentage.
You cannot complain that your child's mother denied you visitation to your child if you never went to court to be awarded rights to visitation in the first place.
Documents for Divorce
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Documentation and Information for your lawyer: You will want to get together information and documentation to give your divorce lawyer about your income, assets and debts incurred by both spouses during your marriage.
I suggest clients provide me with the following information (and documentation) or as much of it as a client has access to.
Remember if you require your attorney to spend the time to have to track down, request and obtain this documentation for you, the more you will owe your attorney in attorney fees.
I suggest clients provide me with the following information (and documentation) or as much of it as a client has access to.
Remember if you require your attorney to spend the time to have to track down, request and obtain this documentation for you, the more you will owe your attorney in attorney fees.
Third Party Custody
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Third party child custody cases are those initiated by a person who is someone other than the child's biological mother or biological father, and such individual is requesting to be awarded custody of a child.
The request for custody is one which is made opposed to the biological parents and is a request for permanent custody.
These types of actions require very specific statutory facts to be met before the court will allow the action to proceed.
These types of cases involve circumstances which a third person steps in to care for a child because of neglect, abuse, or other extraordinary circumstances pertaining to the parent - child such that the parent is unlikely to be able to provide the child with a safe and stable home environment in the future.
The request for custody is one which is made opposed to the biological parents and is a request for permanent custody.
These types of actions require very specific statutory facts to be met before the court will allow the action to proceed.
These types of cases involve circumstances which a third person steps in to care for a child because of neglect, abuse, or other extraordinary circumstances pertaining to the parent - child such that the parent is unlikely to be able to provide the child with a safe and stable home environment in the future.
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