CHICAGO DIVORCE LAWYER ARTICLES
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"The rules of court we have promulgated are not aspirational. They are not suggestions. They have the force of law, and the presumption must be that they will be obeyed and enforced as written." Bright v. Dicke, 652 N.E.2d 275 (1995)
"[E]veryone is presumed to know the law and ignorance of the law excuses no one" Jones v. Board of Education of the City of Chicago, 2013 IL App (1st) 122437
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Child support in Illinois is determined based on number of factors. Both parents’ incomes are considered and then compared to a chart that the Illinois department of Health and Family Services produces and updates each year. “The Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services shall adopt rules establishing child support guidelines which include worksheets to aid in the calculation of the child support obligations and a schedule of basic child…
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Divorce attorney see their clients and their client’s spouse’s true finances. The truth is that most people have little in the way of assets outside of their marital home and their retirement accounts. When a divorcing couple’s assets are tied up in a home and retirement accounts, the divorcing the parties must pay for their new expenses: two households and two divorce lawyers (and possibly a Guardian Ad Litem) out…
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Maintenance (formerly known as alimony) is the direct payment of support from one spouse to another during and after an Illinois divorce. “[T]he court may grant a maintenance award for either spouse in amounts and for periods of time as the court deems just, without regard to marital misconduct, and the maintenance may be paid from the income or property of the other spouse.” 750 ILCS 5/504(a) An Illinois court…
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Parents are parents. It does not matter what gender either parent is. When same sex parents divorce those same sex parents use a system of laws originally designed for opposite sex couples. Because Illinois divorce laws are implicitly designed for opposite sex parents, either party can attempt to use those laws to try to shut a same sex parent out of a child’s life. If an adult is NOT deemed…
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When you get divorced two parties no longer have any obligations to each other that are not enshrined in their marital settlement agreement. There is no obligation to insure your spouse or your former spouse under the Illinois Marriage And Dissolution Of Marriage Act. But, in Illinois an insurance company cannot offer health insurance without also offering to insure a policy holder’s spouse and children. “No policy of…health insurance, nor…
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