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| Firm successfully thwarts noncustodial parent's
attempt to move child from Minnesota to North Carolina. |
| In a recent case, the firm represented a mother
whose ex-spouse brought a motion in North Carolina attempting
to modify the custody arrangement related to the parties'
14-year-old daughter, in an attempt to have the daughter move
from Minnesota to North Carolina. The father was having agreed
upon extended summer visitation with his daughter. Near the
end of the summer, the father unilaterally enrolled the daughter
in school in North Carolina. Then, just weeks before the daughter
was to return to Minnesota, the father served the mother with
a custody modification motion, to be heard by the North Carolina
Family Court, wherein the father sought approval to have the
daughter remain with him in North Carolina. This firm associated
with legal counsel in North Carolina and through proceedings
in Minnesota and North Carolina, successfully established
Minnesota as the state that would resolve the dispute regarding
the daughter's proper residence for the coming school year.
The firm then vigorously litigated the matter on behalf of
the mother and daughter, prevailing upon the Minnesota Family
Court to examine the daughter's true preference which was
to live in Minnesota. The father ultimately dropped his attempt
to move the daughter to North Carolina and dropped his motion.
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| David Van House represents developer in the
formation of Willow Lake Office Condominium. |
| David Van House recently represented Willow Lake
Properties, LLC and Pratt-Ordway, LLC with the legal formation
and creation of the governing documents for Willow Lake Office
Condominium. The development is located in Vadnais Heights,
Minnesota near the intersection of 35E and County Road F.
The firm's representation included drafting the Articles of
Incorporation, Declaration and By-laws for the Willow Lake
Office Condominium Association, Inc., under the Minnesota
Common Interest Ownership Act, commonly known as "MCIOA";
as well as representation of the developer with respect to
the negotiation of the sale of the completed units within
the office condominium. |
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| David Van House represents suburban bank extending
$5,600,000.00 development loan to a real estate developer. |
| David Van House recently represented a prominent
suburban bank in extending a $5,600,000.00 development loan
to a real estate developer for a real estate development in
Buffalo, Minnesota. The credit extension involved numerous
issues involving real estate title, zoning and survey matters,
which were successfully concluded by Van House, on behalf
of his client. |
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| David Van House represents Judgment Debtor
in successful claim of exemption to real estate closing escrow.
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| The firm recently represented a client in a personal chapter
7 bankruptcy. Prior to filing his bankruptcy, the client had
closed on the refinance of his home. At the closing, the title
company required the escrow of in excess of $30,000.00 to
pay off a judgment against the client. In the bankruptcy,
the firm on behalf of the client claimed that the funds in
escrow were part of the client's exempt homestead. No objection
was filed by the trustee or by any creditor and the escrowed
funds were ultimately released to the firm's client. |
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| The firm preserves $125,000.00 in equity by successfully
defending an adverse claim to title of real property. |
| The firm recently represented a married couple attempting
to sell a parcel of open land that had been gifted to the
couple by relatives fifteen years earlier. The same relatives
commenced a lawsuit to prevent the land sale, claiming that
the relatives continued to own the land and never actually
gifted the it to the married couple. By aggressively exposing
the weakness of the relatives' position in District Court,
the firm succeeded in quickly resolving the dispute, clearing
the title, and permitting the couple to sell the land and
realize their $125,000 in equity. |
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| David Van House successfully defends motion for child
support reduction and obtains child support increase and full
award of attorneys' fees. |
| Child support Obligee, was served with a motion
for reduction in child support and stay of cost of living
increase based on her former husband's unemployment. The motion
relates to child support for the couple's single minor child.
Through a subpoena of the Obligor's former employer, David
Van House learned that when the Obligor lost his job in he
received $24,000.00 in continuing salary as a severance package.
Through discovery and reviewing and analyzing the Obligor's
federal and state income tax returns, Van House learned that
the Obligor also had outside income of nearly $15,000.00 which
was not reported by the obligor as earnings in his motion
papers. Van House also learned that at the time of the previous
motion for modification of child support, the Obligor understated
his gross income by nearly $30,000.00. Based on all these
factors, the court found that "without the extensive discovery
conducted by counsel, the Obligor's misrepresentation and
lack of candor would not have been uncovered. The Obligor
unreasonably contributed to both the length and expense by
misrepresenting through omission his income in his motion
papers." The Obligor's child support prior to the Obligor's
motion was $884.45. After the motion he was ordered to pay
child support retroactively in the amount of $955.00 per month,
plus the full amount of our client's attorneys' fees of $5,186.28. |
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| David Van House successfully settles a claim for child
support arrearages based on a workers compensation and lost
wages award. |
| David Van House recently represented the Obligee on a post
dissolution motion for an award of child support based on
a wage loss award received by the Obligor. The Obligor was
injured while at work and received a wage loss recovery. The
Obligor was ordered to account to the court for any subsequent
workers compensation or tort award related to his injuries.
The Obligor failed to do so. Van House brought a motion in
Washington County Court and the matter was subsequently settled
with the Obligor agreeing to pay nearly $18,000.00 in a lump
sum to the firm's client, the Obligee, to resolve the case. |
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| David Van House represents Suburban Bank extending $2,900,000
development loan to a real estate developer. |
| David Van House recently represented a prominent suburban
bank in extending a $2,900,000 development loan to a real
estate developer for a real estate development in St. Michael,
Minnesota. The credit extension involved numerous issues involving
real estate title, zoning and survey matters which were successfully
concluded by Van House on behalf of his client. |
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| David Van House represents corporation in connection
with a $3,100,000 new construction and equipment loan from
the Minnesota Agricultural and Economic Development Board. |
| David Van House successfully represented a suburban corporation
in connection with a $3,100,000 real estate and equipment
loan extended by the Minnesota Agricultural and Economic Development
Board. The loan enabled the firm's client to nearly double
its warehouse and manufacturing capability in its new quarters.
David Van House also represented the corporation in the sale
of it's previously existing facility. |
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