“If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.” – Albert Einstein.
If the Cook County Court orders, you must contribute to your children’s college expenses after a divorce. The Illinois Marriage and Dissolution of Marriage Act 750 ILCS 513 says that either or both of the parents can be ordered to pay “educational expenses for any child” incurred no later than the child’s 23rd birthday, and
Mediation is a great idea for any divorce. Mediation can help eliminate some or all disagreements and thereby eliminate the need for most of a divorce lawyers work. But often the parties to a divorce are in such disagreement that mediation is impossible. When is mediation required in an Illinois divorce? Mediation In Illinois If
For years, the answer to Chicago divorce pet custody questions has been, “There is no custody for animals. Pets are treated as property and divided as such. In theory, if you don’t agree as to who gets the animal, the court could order you to sell the animal and split the proceeds.” This king Solomon
Child support is designed to provide additional funds to the “residential parent” from the “non-residential parent.” That is, child support is for the extra food, shelter and clothing the resident parent is spending on the child. But what happens when the child no longer lives with the residential parent after a Chicago, Illinois divorce? Is
Many people believe they can get some kind of leverage in a divorce case by recording their conversations with their spouses or exes. What’s more, recording a phone call is now extremely easy due to the record functionality being available on virtually all smartphones. In Illinois, recording a phone conversation is illegal. 720 ILCS 5/14-2
You can sue the person who seduced your husband or wife…or at least you used to be able to in Illinois. It’s called “Alienation of Affection.” Alientation of affection is the wrongful act of one person that interferes with the affection one spouse has for the other. This could be when a husband or wife