ABM’s Managing Partner earns first-time recognition on the industry’s leading peer-review list Anderson Boback & Marshall (ABM) is proud to share that Jessica C. Marshall, Managing Partner, has been included in the 2026 edition of The Best Lawyers in America®. This marks Jessica’s first year of recognition. What this honor means Best Lawyers® is a long-standing, independent recognition program
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Usually, if you have another party that has violated a Court Order, the other party can seek what are known as 508b fees from them. The decision to grant those fees are always within the sound discretion of the court (with the exception of a contempt finding). However, what if there was no order? What
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Pre-marital agreements (formerly called “pre-nuptial” agreements) are contracts that parties enter into upon marriage which dictate how they would like to divide their assets should they decide to dissolve their marriage. When parties decide to obtain a dissolution of their marriage and they have a pre-marital agreement, they often wonder how the pre-marital agreement will
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Adding to last weeks blog, we continue to discuss the income that is considered when calculating child support. What about if you have a capital account where your employer distributes shares of your company’s performance to you as a benefit of your employment?. In In re Marriage of Winne, 239 Ill.App.3d 273, 606 N.E.2d 777,
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It is surprising to many parties that they can be ordered to contribute to their children’s college tuition and expenses upon a divorce, or a parentage order goes into effect, when there isn’t a legal requirement to contribute to same otherwise. However, whether or not parties will be contributing to their children’s college education depends
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As part of the court’s determination of net income for purposes of setting an award for child support, the court, under 750 ILCS 5/505(a)(3), considers unemployment compensation as well as workers’ compensation awards within the scope of the statutory definition of “net income.” In In re Marriage of Dodds, 222 Ill.App.3d 99, 583 N.E.2d 608,
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