“If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.” – Albert Einstein.
When one spouse controls all the money in a marriage, the other spouse is left completely vulnerable. It costs money to live! If your spouse has all the money, how can you live? Does withholding money amount to financial abuse in an Illinois divorce? Financial Abuse Is Abuse In Illinois In Illinois, abuse is resolved
Drugs and alcohol make people do crazy things. When someone is intoxicated their actions can threaten or hurt others…even the people they claim to love. Behavior when a person is intoxicated can be abusive. Abusive behavior requires the court to issue an order of protection. “If the court finds that petitioner has been abused by
Orders of protection are scary in multiple ways. The people asking for protection from their romantic partner usually also rely on that romantic partner for financial support. One of the purposes of the Illinois Domestic Violence Act is to “address any related issues of child custody and economic support, so that victims are not trapped
Illinois courts are happy to grant orders of protection. Orders of protection prevent possible tragedies with little harm to the parties who are subject to the order of protection. Orders of protection simply prevent a party from doing something that may lead to some kind of future abuse of another party. “An order of protection
The internet is full of chatter about divorce. The latest buzzword in the internet divorce community is the “silver bullet divorce” A silver bullet divorce is a divorce that starts with an emergency order of protection. Emergency petitions for order of protection are almost always heard “ex parte” (without the accused even being present.) The
Petitions For Orders of Protection in Illinois are all the same. They are all on the same state-wide Petition For Order Of Protection form which has multiple lines stating on line 7 “An Order of Protection is needed because Respondent did these things: Date: Time: What happened:” The instructions for this line say “In 7,
Orders of protection are not for everyone. Specifically, orders of protection are for people who had an intimate bond with their abuser. The protections afforded under the Illinois Domestic Violence Act are so powerful because it protects against abusers who know their victims so well. The Illinois Domestic Violence Act protects persons from “physical abuse,
Nobody is perfect…even teachers. Teachers have relationships. Teachers have arguments with people they are in relationships with. Teachers say things or do things which can cause the person they are in a relationship with to file a petition for order of protection. An order of protection has no criminal penalties in itself (unless that order
When two kids fight, the perpetrator kid will often claim that they had to abuse the other kid because of something the other kid did. As adults, scold the child by saying, “two wrongs don’t make a right” and appropriately punish the more recent wrongdoer. Punishing both children usually feels off-balance when one child has
When people who are married (or just lived together) fight, one party usually moves out of the home they shared. Sometimes a party will move to another county in Illinois. At this point, there’s a question of where the parties can file a petition for dissolution of marriage or a petition for an order of