If you have children and are considering divorce, you may have concerns regarding child custody and visitation arrangements (aka parenting time) if your spouse has a history of substance abuse issues. If your soon to be ex-spouse is abusing drugs or alcohol, you may feel strongly that he or she cannot provide adequate supervision or… Read More »
Illinois Child Custody Dispute
Divorce does not have to mean losing custody of your children. An experienced family law attorney can help you negotiate a plan that gives each parent a roughly equal amount of parenting time and responsibility so the children can benefit from a relationship with both parents. Shared parenting time means that the parents have joint… Read More »
Can I Block My Ex Spouse From Contacting the Kids? | Illinois Child Custody Lawyer
Today many tweens and teens have cell phones along with a number of social media apps to stay in touch with friends and family. When parents divorce this ready access to your children can sometimes pose a problem. In a contentious divorce, it may be that the non-custodial parent is contacting the children via text,… Read More »
Dissipation of Marital Property
The decision to divorce usually comes after a period where marital relations break down over time, which might be months or years in the making. In fact, sometimes couples end up leading separate lives long before they initiate a divorce even if on the surface things appear to be copacetic. When couples make the decision… Read More »
Illinois Legal Separation Agreement Lawyer
Many who are considering divorce wonder if a trial physical separation will provide the needed space to decide whether the marriage is salvageable or not before moving forward. It is sometimes hard to imagine what life will be like after divorcing a spouse, so a trial separation may help provide needed clarity. If you are… Read More »
Does Child Support Go Down if I Have Another Child?
If you have a child with a new spouse, the income available to pay child support for a child from a previous marriage may be reduced. You may want to seek a modification to the original child support obligation to reflect the change in your circumstances. Typically, this will require you to file a petition… Read More »
Covering Child Care, Education and Extracurricular Expenses in a Divorce
Raising kids is expensive these days and many who are considering divorce worry about how they will cover miscellaneous expenses such as child care, health care and education for their child moving forward. So that a child may continue on an established path and have their needs taken care of, in addition to basic child… Read More »
Failure to Pay Illinois Child Support
A spouse who is not satisfied with the outcome of a divorce may ignore a provision in the final order regarding visitation arrangements or the payment of child and spousal support. Failure to Pay Illinois Child Support If your ex spouse is not holding up his or her end of the agreement by not letting… Read More »
Can My Child Decide Which Parent to Live With
As children of divorce enter their teen years, they may want to spend more time with one parent over another. They may express their wish to live with a non-custodial parent or refuse to go back and forth between the two households as part of a visitation arrangement. Parents often ask, can my child decide… Read More »
Changes to Illinois Child Support Coming July 1
A new law, taking effect July 1, will change the way child support is calculated in Illinois. Rather than base child support on existing percentages such as 20% for one child, 28% for two, 32% for three and 40% for four…the amendment to the Illinois Marriage and Dissolution of Marriage Act will base child support… Read More »
