In domestic relations cases, particularly in those that involve domestic violence and/or children, parties will want to obtain copies of police reports which don’t necessarily name them within them. For example, maybe there was a domestic violence incident at your child’s other parent’s home between the other parent and a third party. People often wonder
Continue Reading »During a divorce and/or child support proceeding, the parties often crunch (and re-crunch) numbers to try and predict what their support obligations could be or what they could be entitled to per law. The payor will take the net pay reflected in his/her paycheck and assume that that would be the only income that will
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To initiate a case that is not initiated by agreement, the other party has to be served notice of process. The service itself is simple; the sheriff goes out to the person’s residence or place of employment and hands them copies of what has been filed in the case, including a Summons. This person is
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In most situations, the Husband and Wife have lived together up until or very close to the date one of them files a Petition for Dissolution of Marriage. But what about those situations where the parties have been separated for 10 or 20 years prior to the filing of a Petition for Dissolution of Marriage?
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With new changes to the Illinois Marriage and Dissolution of Marriage Act (IMDMA), comes different ways of applying the law. One of those changes is a parent’s restriction on removing a child for more than 25 miles than their prior location without leave of court. While the restriction used to be based on state lines,
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Discovery is the process in which litigants obtain information from the other party to be used at hearings or trials. Typically, discovery is done in three different forms: depositions (oral discovery), interrogatories (written discovery) and production of documents and/or items, recordings and the like. In addition to these, parties in domestic relations cases in Illinois
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