Judy S Engel

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Family law is complex and can be a maze of intricate details. Place your trust in us, we can guide you to the finish.

Our Family Law attorneys combine personal sensitivity with specialized practical advice to provide effective, caring resolution to our clients' problems. Our diversity in perspective and experience enables us to suggest creative solutions to disputes in this area, from the simplest to the most complex. We are devoted to keeping simple cases simple, and bringing innovative solutions and techniques to complex and unusual cases.

Our client’s interests are paramount; we maintain their privacy and confidences. We are sensitive to the pain associated with divorce. Client concerns are not minimized, and we strive to achieve the client’s overall goals with the utmost discretion. Because of our reputation, our clients include prominent figures or their spouses—leaders in the business world and professions, celebrities, and professional athletes. In most cases we are able to keep their problems from public view while quietly resolving their cases.

Our Family Law attorneys' primary goal is reaching a reasonable settlement without going to trial. But when a trial is necessary to resolve client problems, our Family Law clients benefit from having aggressive, effective trial attorneys supporting them in the courtroom.

Family law disputes are increasingly being resolved through alternative dispute resolution techniques such as mediation and early neutral evaluations. Our Family Law attorneys regularly assist parties using these alternative techniques to negotiate favorable settlements without going to trial.

Few other law firms have our breadth and depth of experience in family law problems. Our attorneys in this area are thorough economic and financial planners, well-seasoned negotiators and accomplished litigators. Our most senior Family Law attorney has been selected by his peers to list in the BEST LAWYERS IN AMERICA. He also served as an adjunct professor of Family Law at the University of Minnesota Law School, where he taught a seminar in negotiating complex matrimonial settlements. Among the most sophisticated in the field, our Family Law lawyers are supported by excellent paralegals and staff members.

Clients also benefit from our Family Law attorneys' ability to use the wider resources of the firm to resolve their problems. The group draws on the knowledge and experience of attorneys in the firm's Business & Tax Law, Estates & Trusts, Real Estate, Compensation Planning and Employee Benefits, Corporate, and Bankruptcy groups.

Family Law Services
- Divorce
- Annulment and Legal Separation
- Spousal Maintenance
- Business and Property Valuation and Division
- Child Support
- Child Custody (Including Interstate and International)
- Visitation / Parenting Time
- Tax & Financial Planning
- Negotiation, Settlement & Trial of Disputes
- Post-Dissolution Matters
- Review and Appeal
- Alternative Dispute Resolutions: Practical advice to individuals seeking to mediate or utilize alternatives to the court system
- Parental Child Abduction (Kidnapping, including Interstate and International cases under the Hague Convention)
- Domestic Abuse Proceedings
- Pre-Marital and Post-Marital Agreements
- Change of Name
- Paternity
- Adoption
- International Matrimonial Issues

Judy S Engel
Fredrikson & Byron PA
200 S 6th St #4000
Minneapolis MN 55402
Tel: 612 492-7118
Fax: 612 492-7077
E-mail: jengel@fredlaw.com

Practice Areas
- Family Law
- Property Tax Appeals, Co-Chair
- Litigation
- Real Estate Litigation

Judy Engel is a shareholder in both the Property Tax Appeals and Family Law Groups.

In her property tax appeals practice, Judy is experienced in the negotiation and trial of cases involving commercial property valuation, equalization, and exemption issues with a focus on restaurants, office buildings, department stores, shopping centers, and apartment buildings.

In her family law practice, Judy works on legal separations, divorces, and paternity cases involving a variety of issues including child custody and visitation, child support, spousal maintenance, property and debt division, and domestic abuse. The work she does in her property tax practice also provides her with unique and valuable skills in dealing with issues of property valuation and division in her family law practice.

Judy also practices in appellate advocacy and she has handled numerous appeals to both the Minnesota Court of Appeals and the Minnesota Supreme Court.