“If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.” – Albert Einstein.
Alcoholic parents make divorce and parenting time extremely challenging. 30% of American adults don’t drink at all. Another 30% have less than one drink a week. The top 10% of drinking Americans drink an average of 73.85 drinks a week. The second decile of drinkers (20% to 10%) drink 15.3 drinks a week which can
Divorces can take years and there is always the possibility that a party in a divorce case may die during the divorce. If a spouse dies during the divorce, the divorce will not be finalized and then the marital estate remains unsettled and undistributed. What Happens When A Spouse Dies During An Illinois Divorce? In
***Update for the corona virus*** People keep visiting this article to find out if their divorce is on hold in Chicago. Well, as of March 17, 2020 all Chicago domestic relations cases will be on hold until April 15th as the court house will be closed. Only emergency matters will be considered by an actual
Yes. In Illinois, if your spouse has 1) not yet divorced you, 2) you have no health care power of attorney, and 3) you are not conscious then your spouse can make medical decisions on your behalf. Understandably, this is disturbing at best and terrifying at worst. There are steps you have to take to
In Illinois, there’s no actual law regarding health insurance and divorce. As long as you are married, you have the right to stay on the policy of your insured spouse. Conversely, as long as you are married, you must maintain health insurance for your spouse if you had been covering your spouse on your insurance
As you might infer from the question, there is never a time your divorce case can truly be considered “over” or “finished”. Before we go onto why, let’s talk about divorce procedures briefly. Illinois law governs divorces in a section of the statute called the Illinois Marriage and Dissolution of Marriage Act, Section 750 ILCS
The ability to of a parent to claim children on their taxes is as good as money itself. While this is usually an afterthought, should not simply abandon the right to declare their children to the other parent simply because the other parent has the children most of the time or pays more in taxes.
Illinois divorce law relies on both parties disclosing all of their assets and income to the other party in order to settle their divorce. But what happens if one party lies about their assets or income in a Chicago, Illinois divorce? Before we jump into this topic known as “discovery“, it all starts with the financial
Taking your children outside of the country after a Chicago, Illinois divorce is a big step. When you travel abroad with your children, you are taking your children outside of the jurisdiction of the court that entered your divorce decree, Cook County, Illinois. In Illinois, throughout the divorce or parentage process the parties are required
Starting from January 1, 2016, Illinois joined a majority of states in the USA in eliminating all the fault-based grounds for divorce. This was done through Public Act 99-90 that removed all fault-based grounds for divorce and the only ground remaining that a party can allege is known as irreconcilable differences. Prior to January 1,
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