Thomas Tuft

Thomas Tuft, a native of the East Side of Saint Paul, is a shareholder at Tuft, Lach, Jerabek & O'Connell, PLLC practicing in all areas of family law, including complex divorce, child support, paternity, and child custody. He is a Rule 114 Qualified Neutral, a Social Early Neutral Evaluator (SENE) and a Financial Early Neutral Evaluator (FENE). He has been named among the list of Minnesota SuperLawyers® since 2002 and has been named one of the Top 40 Family Law SuperLawyers in Minnesota since 2004. He has been named to the list of Top 100 Superlawyers in Minnesota each year since 2006 and named to the list of Best Lawyers in America®. He is rated AV (the highest possible rating in both ethics and legal skills) by Martindale-Hubbell®, one of the nation’s oldest and most respected attorney listings. He is a member of the American Bar Association, Minnesota State Bar Association, and Ramsey County Bar Association. Mr. Tuft is a Fellow and Vice President of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers — Minnesota Chapter, and is a past chair of the Second District Ethics Committee. He frequently lectures on various family law matters, including divorce, custody, child support, as well as legal ethics and law practice management and law office technology.

University of Minnesota - Twin Cities

B.A.

Honors: Summa Cum Laude

University of Minnesota Law School

J.D. (1993)

1993

Activities: Phi Beta Kappa

Fellow- Vice President of Minnesota Chapter

AAML

Current

Member, Past Officer

Collaborative Law Institute

Current

Chair

Second District Ethics Committee

2003 - 2005

Minnesota Child Custody and Support Deskbook, "Interstate and International Jurisdiction and Custody Issues,"

Minnesota State Bar Association, , co-author Valerie Arnold.

September, 2006

International Parental Child Abduction

Bench & Bar,

December, 2004

Preventing Parental Kidnapping

State Bar Association Family Law Forum

2002

How to File for Divorce in Minnesota

Sphinx Publishing

2001

Determining Child Custody Across Jurisdictions

Bench & Bar

December, 1999

SuperLawyer

Minnesota Law & Politics

2002

Rising Star

AAML

2001

Minnesota State Bar

Member

Current

American Bar Association

Member

Current

Activities: Ramsey County District Court Pro Se Clinic 2005-2009 Chrysalis (1994 to present) Southern Minnesota Regional Legal Services (1994 to present)

Minnesota

Minnesota Supreme Court

Since 1993

U.S. Supreme Court

Since 2002

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