Minnesota’s divorce professionals, verified.
Real attorneys, mediators, CDFAs and therapists — credentials checked against Minnesota’s own official directories, not paid placement.
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Every professional below is currently at the Listed tier: credentials independently verified from an official Minnesota source, automatically included whether they’ve opted into The Cusp or not — the same way a bar association directory works. Nobody here has paid for placement, and none of them have published pricing or been reviewed yet.
What “verified” means on this page
Not every check is the same check, and most directories hide that. Every listing below says which kind it was, and the date we did it — because a license check is a photograph, not a guarantee. Somebody confirmed in August can be suspended in September.
- State registerChecked against the state’s own licensing, court or bar record.
- Issuing bodyChecked against the organization that grants this credential — authoritative for the credential, but it is their own list.
- Membership listingA membership directory. Joining is voluntary, and this is not a license check.
- Self-reportedTaken from this person’s own website. Nobody independent confirmed it, and we are re-checking these against an official register.
- Source linkedChecked against the source linked, which is not a state register.
Nobody paid to be listed here, and nobody can. Listings are not for sale, and no professional on this page has paid us anything to appear on it or to appear higher on it. If we are ever paid in connection with anyone listed here, it will say so on this page, next to that listing. Most of these were confirmed against a state register. A small number were not, and rather than quietly presenting those as equivalent, they are marked and we are re-checking them.
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- Family law & divorce attorneys
- Certified mediators — Verified via an official court-connected or state-recognized mediator roster.
- Certified Divorce Financial Analysts (CDFAs)
- Therapists & counselors, divorce/family focus — License verified active against the state's official license-lookup tool.
- What these professionals typically cost in Minnesota — See the main directory page for the full regional cost breakdown across all four professional types.
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Family law & divorce attorneys
Verified via the state’s official bar / attorney licensing source, filtered to family law practice and active status.
Certified mediators
Verified via an official court-connected or state-recognized mediator roster.
Certified Divorce Financial Analysts (CDFAs)
Pulled from the Institute for Divorce Financial Analysts’ own public directory of credentialed CDFA professionals.
Therapists & counselors, divorce/family focus
License verified active against the state’s official license-lookup tool.
Not included yet. Attorneys: Each attorney was matched by name, city and ZIP against the Lawyer Registration Office’s own official published list of Minnesota lawyers, current as of the verified date. That list confirms current registration but does not itself carry an active/inactive status field, and the per-attorney detail page is reCAPTCHA-gated, which we don’t bypass. Every attorney here is also independently on the Rule 114 Family Neutrals Roster for Dissolution/Divorce.
Not included yet. Therapists: Minnesota’s counselor, social work and marriage-and-family-therapy boards all serve a bot-check with an hCaptcha challenge instead of their lookup, so no LPCC, LICSW or LMFT license could be board-verified. The four clinicians here are instead verified as Licensed Psychologists through Minnesota’s official state license search operated for the MN Board of Psychology — a different board, but a genuine official one. One additional divorce-focused psychologist was deliberately excluded because her board record carries a disciplinary action.
Not included yet. CDFAs: Three CDFAs, two of them in Hennepin County. IDFA’s search is reCAPTCHA-gated, so only individually-indexed profiles could be reached; no greater-Minnesota CDFA profile could be confirmed.
What these professionals typically cost in Minnesota
Minnesota falls in the Midwest region on The Cusp’s cost model — illustrative, member-reported ranges, not an official fee survey or a quote.
| Item | Reported range |
|---|---|
| Attorney, uncontested | $900–$3,000 |
| Attorney, contested | $4,000–$18,000+ |
| Mediator, full case | $90–$280/hr |
See the main directory page for the full regional cost breakdown across all four professional types.
Know someone in Minnesota who needs this?
Sending one person a straight answer about money is more useful than most advice. Nothing here asks for their real name, and nobody finds out they looked.
Doing your own Minnesota filing instead?
The Minnesota Divorce Kit has the exact forms, deadlines, and rejection traps for your county.
The rest of what we have written about Minnesota. Every figure is quoted from Minnesota’s own statute or its courts’ own published schedule, and carries the date we last checked it.
Everybody on this page charges for their time. If money is the constraint — and for most people reading this it is — these two come first, and we earn nothing from either.
- LawHelpMN.org — free civil legal help for people who qualify on income.
- Minnesota Judicial Branch — Statewide Self-Help Center — the court’s own self-help material, free to everybody regardless of income.
Divorce coaches are not in this directory, and here is why
Everyone above holds a license a state regulator can take away. “Divorce coach” is not a protected title — in Minnesota or anywhere else — so there is no license to check and no regulator to check it with.
We read each certifying body’s own website looking for one thing: a published route by which a coach can lose the credential. Of the three divorce-specific credentials we examined, not one publishes a disciplinary process a client could actually use.
That is not a reason never to hire one. A coach is cheaper than a lawyer for the things that are not legal problems, and a great deal of what costs people money in a divorce is not a legal problem. It is a reason to know what the credential does and does not mean before you pay anybody.
What the credential actually means · What to ask before you pay · How this directory is ordered
Every agent we introduce in Minnesota is divorce-trained and vetted
Most agents are competent and most have never handled a divorce sale — two clients who may not be speaking, a court order neither was told about, a closing date somebody else controls. So we do not list agents. We introduce one, and only after they have cleared four things:
- a license we checked ourselves with the regulator, with no unresolved discipline;
- six closed sales in the last two years, from their own MLS records;
- 4.7 or better across every site they are reviewed on, at least ten reviews;
- our divorce real estate training and its twenty-question assessment.
Then we check on you, not on them — at seven days and again at six months.
Ask for an introduction* · The standards in full · Four questions to ask any agent · Agents: get certified
* Hyleri, who writes this site, is a licensed agent with Compass and may receive a referral fee from the introduced agent’s commission if a sale completes — never added to what you pay. How we make money.