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In an Illinois divorce or custody fight, parents often fight for more time with their children. The parents may want more time with their children
People move around a lot. It is not uncommon for a father and mother to enter into a child support order and then the parent with primary custody of the child move to another state.
There is probably no more byzantine and complex process in an Illinois divorce than valuing and dividing a business. The business operating spouse will always want to keep the business while claiming the business is
People who get divorced get in fights. It is not unusual for a fight between a married couple to result in one spouse filing a Petition For An Order of Protection against the other spouse.
An old saying goes, “It ain’t over ‘till it’s over.” In an Illinois divorce, it’s not even over when it’s over. Either party has the option to appeal the case and the decisions rendered by
Divorces are messy. Divorces with children are REALLY messy. Illinois divorce courts will often try to bypass the messiest part of an Illinois divorce by reserving the parenting time issues until a later date. Sometimes,
Your wedding vows probably included the words “until death do us part.” Even if you get divorced, your relationship with your ex-spouse may not truly end until one of you dies. What is the effect
Prenuptial agreements are generally drafted by the spouse who has the money. The spouse with the most assets and income will prepare a prenuptial agreement which will attempt to preserve as much of those assets
People get paid all sorts of ways. Employees get paystubs, benefits, and per diem accounts. Employees even get paid for NOT working when they are paid for their accumulated vacation and sick days. For an
Divorce is terrible. Divorce changes everything in both parties’ lives and in their children’s lives. However, the status quo of living in misery and distrust cannot remain either. There must be some kind of half-measure,
The cartoon character Scrooge McDuck would keep all his wealth in one place: a giant vault. Scrooge would then swim in the money he had amassed in order to count it. In real life, wealth
Traditionally, men ask women to marry them by buying them a diamond ring. The “rule” is that the diamond ring should be worth two months of the man’s salary. That is a lot of money.
Getting divorced is not pretty. Usually someone in a divorce has done something really stupid, cruel or embarrassing. Even if the embarrassing behavior is exclusively your spouse’s actions, your spouse (and their behavior) is still
Most divorces in Illinois are governed by one to three documents: a Judgment For Dissolution Of Marriage, A Marital Settlement Agreement and/or an Allocation of Parenting Time and Parental Responsibilities. 95% of these final divorce
After an Illinois divorce is over…it is not really over. Everything in a divorce order can be enforced later in the same Illinois divorce court. Additionally, virtually everything about a divorce order in Illinois can
Family law is fraught with emergencies: holiday trips that have been thwarted, medical procedures that need to be done, money frittered away with no hope of recoup. If you and your spouse, ex-spouse or ex-spouse-to-be,
In Illinois, there is only one grounds for divorce: irreconcilable differences. “The court shall enter a judgment of dissolution of marriage [upon] the making of the finding:…Irreconcilable differences have caused the irretrievable breakdown of the
Dividing marital assets in an Illinois divorce is not done with a pure 50/50 split analysis. Illinois courts divide marital assets in “just proportions.” “Just proportions does not mean strict equality but only an equitable
Illinois divorce law can be confusing. The most confusing element of the Illinois divorce process is probably the discovery process. Discovery is the “compulsory disclosure, at a party’s request, of information that relates to the
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