Many couples hold off on divorcing until their children are grown and out of house in an attempt to protect them or limit the disruption and stress that a divorce may add to their children’s life. However, there have been several stress identifiers with parents divorcing in their children’s college years as well. · The
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I often hear from clients that “justice must prevail” in their dissolution of marriage cases. They have been wronged, and they feel that they should be vindicated. Unfortunately, dissolution proceedings take place in civil court in Illinois. That means that the Judge is not there to punish the parties, as they are in criminal court.
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Many parties attempt to amicably resolve their divorce with as little interference from attorneys as possible. Parties who are amicable are in the unique position of being able to sit down together to discuss their assets and liabilities and to try and formulate a plan for how they will divide everything up, by agreement. This
Continue Reading »Dissipation is defined as the misuse of marital sources by one party towards non-marital expenses. The big question in dissipation cases, however, is how far back one can go in their dissipation claim. According to the 2013 amendments, a party could not ask for more than 2 years prior to the time the marriage began
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Over the past two years there has been a major over-haul of the laws and court docket system affecting the domestic relations practice area in Cook County. In 2016 numerous laws were amended and in 2017 the domestic relations and parentage courts were consolidated so that Judges hearing pre and post decree divorce cases are
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Retroactive support is support that goes “backwards” in time. This support serves as a reimbursement for past months when support was not yet ordered or paid. Retroactive support is mandatory in certain situations, and discretionary in other situations. Retroactive support can apply to child support, maintenance, out of pocket medical expenses, daycare expenses, and more.
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