“If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.” – Albert Einstein.
So, you’ve been served with divorce papers in Illinois. The first page of those papers should have the word “Summons” on top and then the following instructions, “YOU ARE SUMMONED and required to file your WRITTEN APPEARANCE AND RESPONSE…No Later than 30 days after service of this summons.” How do you prepare this written appearance
Getting a divorce in Illinois sounds like a long and arduous process. Illinois is not known for having an efficient legal bureaucracy. So, getting a quick divorce in Illinois sounds impossible…but it doesn’t have to be. There are many ways to get a quick divorce in Illinois and avoid the rigors of a long drawn
Many divorce lawyers and family attorneys offer flat fee pricing for their services. Most divorce lawyers in Chicago stick to the billable hour method to calculate their fees. In this article, I will discuss the pros and the cons of using a flat fee billing method versus a billable hour method from both the attorney
There are over 100,000 Indian-Americans in the Chicagoland area. There are a smaller number of Pakistani and Bangladeshi-Americans in the Chicagoland area but all three groups are an expanding, vibrant and successful demographic. Unfortunately, even South Asian-Americans get divorced or have family law problems that require a Chicago, Illinois family law attorney. Divorce for Indian-Americans
Big changes in life can often be a trigger for a divorce. There are fewer bigger changes than sustaining a significant personal injury and then receiving a subsequent settlement or award for that personal injury. Often, this change in physical and financial circumstances can make a marriage unsustainable and, thus, subject to divorce. What is
Legal separation is a good scenario for conflict: not quite married, not quite divorced. Not surprisingly, people are always getting legally separated on television because it adds conflict to a storyline. This leads the American public to believe that legal separation is common. Legal separation is not common in Illinois, however. In the Illinois statute,
Most people don’t know much about divorce before entering the divorce process. They hear from friends and relatives’ bits and pieces, almost always scandalous and dispiriting. Then the rest they pick up from television and movies such as the ability to disqualify a divorce lawyer from talking to your spouse by merely consulting with the
Children are expensive. Children need to be fed, clothed and cared for when they’re babies. Then when children get into school, they inevitably get into activities that require some kind of financial contribution from the parents. When the parents of the children are divorced, there must be some kind of arrangement made to pay for
The whole point of going to court in a divorce is to get a ruling from the court. If you and your spouse cannot agree on an issue in your divorce, either of you may ask the court to make the decision based on the facts of your divorce case as applied to Illinois law.
This past week, I spent 8 days in Houston, Texas, at the annual National Family Law Trial Institute‘s Regular Program. This was not a conference where you attend a few lectures and then spend the rest of the day at happy hour. This conference was 9 to 10 hours a day of lectures and exercises