Karen L Schreiber

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Family Law

Lindquist & Vennum's Family Law practice group has established a reputation for excellence in family-related legal services by providing client-centered counsel for over 40 years. Our group recognizes that legal proceedings involving families create unique and emotional situations, and we strive to maintain respect for and preserve the dignity of our clients and their families.

Our attorneys use a team approach to help minimize clients’ costs, while offering creative and common-sense approaches to resolving issues. We strive to settle family-related legal matters cooperatively and collaboratively, although we are well prepared to employ litigation when necessary.

Our core strength is resolving disputes that involve the intricacies of substantial incomes, assets and financial holdings; however, we handle a variety of other family-related issues as well. Our attorneys offer clients solid experience and knowledge in:
- Marriage dissolution
- Division of complex estates and business interests
- Analysis of nonmarital interests
- Spousal maintenance
- Child custody and parenting time
- Child support
- Post-decree and modification proceedings
- Paternity
- Third-party custody
- Appellate proceedings
- Mediation and collaborative law
- Financial early neutral evaluation
- Prenuptial and postnuptial agreements
- Cohabitation agreements
- Relationship and domestic-partner termination
- Agency and stepparent adoption

In addition to benefiting from the diverse and extensive background of the family law group, our clients are able to draw on the knowledge and expertise of many other attorneys in the firm who focus their practices on related issues, such as business interests and the potential tax implications of various options. To best ensure favorable outcomes, the attorneys in the family law group routinely consult with colleagues in other practice groups.

With decades of experience, Lindquist & Vennum’s family law group is ready to assist you in the resolution of myriad family-related legal issues.

Karen L Schreiber
Lindquist & Vennum PLLP
IDS Center #4200
80 S 8th St
Minneapolis MN 55402
Tel: 612 371-2495
Fax: 612 371-3207
E-mail: kschreiber@lindquist.com

Karen chairs Lindquist & Vennum’s Family Law practice group. She has devoted her practice exclusively to family law for 22 years, assisting clients with adoptions, prenuptial and postnuptial agreements, marriage dissolutions, child custody, parenting time (visitation) matters, paternity matters, and post-decree matters. Karen has extensive experience with marriage dissolutions involving closely held businesses; valuation and division of executive compensation; complex property settlements; child support; and spousal maintenance.

A primary benefit of Karen’s experience is the practical, common-sense approach she takes to family-related legal matters. Although she is a well-prepared and determined litigator when the situation demands it, she prefers to promote accord among family members and resolve issues early on, if possible. Her respect for and collaboration with all parties involved—from custody evaluators and accountants to judges and opposing counsel—has led psychologists, accountants, clergy and attorneys throughout Minnesota to regularly refer clients to her.

Karen’s knowledge, capabilities and approach have made her an attorney of choice for clients with complicated finances—involving, for example, tax issues, trusts, complex forms of compensation and multiple business interests. She helps clients work through such situations by performing continuing cost-benefit analyses and providing clients with the information they need to make informed decisions at each step in the process.

Karen is one of a limited number of attorneys in the Twin Cities who have met the criteria and passed the rigorous admissions process to be admitted as a fellow in the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, where she serves on the board of managers. She is also a member of the family law sections of the Minnesota and American bar associations; a former chair of the Hennepin County Bar Association’s Family Law Section; and a Rule 114 qualified mediator. In addition, she serves on the panel of qualified Hennepin County Financial Early Neutral Evaluators.