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In an Illinois divorce, you can lose a lot. You can lose your assets and you can lose time with your kids. In the end, you can make more money but you can’t get back time with your kids. For…
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***Updated in March 2021 to reflect the massive interest in cryptocurrencies*** Millions of people have purchased Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. Millions of people have also gotten divorced. Therefore, several Bitcoin owners got divorced and had to address the division of…
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Divorce is hard. The person you used to love is now willing to pay hundreds of dollars an hour to make your life miserable. Some divorce lawyers really embrace the role of the “zealous advocate” and eloquently (or not-so-eloquently) tell…
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One of the newest technological advances of the 21st century is the ability to communicate quickly and effectively with one another via text. Text messaging is commonplace and often is preferred to talking directly on the phone. However, sending a…
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In Illinois, there is not a specific “lock changing law” when it comes to divorce or any other domestic relations matter. But effectively, you are evicting your spouse from the marital home when you change the locks. If you and…
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Parenting children is not easy. Parenting children is even harder when you’re not parenting in the same household as the other parent. The shuttling back and forth of children to two different homes is hard on everyone involved. Children are…
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Sometimes you want to be apart from someone you’re married to, you don’t even want to have EVER been married to them. The common law term for declaring that you’ve never really been married is “annulment.” In Illinois, the statute…
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The family law and divorce system in Illinois was written and promulgated imagining reasonable, rational parties unwinding their lives in a logical manner. We all get emotional during a break up and the family law system is set up to…
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Every marriage has roles and responsibilities. Often, one party to a marriage ends up being the breadwinner or sole earner in the house while the other party takes care of the home and possibly the children. So much of an…
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Marriages end for all sorts of reasons. Some people drift apart…and some people really drift apart. So far apart that they don’t even keep in any kind of contact anymore. This ongoing separation can last for years and it becomes…
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