If you share a child with your partner, it is very important to establish paternity in Illinois. This applies to men who have a child born out of wedlock.  Under...

Technically, temporary custody orders expire when the judge enters a final order. However, Will County family law judges typically don’t start from scratch. Instead, an old idiom, possession is nine-tenths...

Division Of Debt When people think about divorce, they often only consider the division of marital assets–who gets what property. But it is equally important to consider the division of...

Even though the child custody and parenting time laws are under the Illinois Marriage and Dissolution of Marriage Act, in the Prairie State, unmarried parents have the same rights and...

Debt Division Like most other jurisdictions, in terms of divorce property settlements, Illinois is an equitable division state. The marital estate, which includes both assets and debts, must be divided...

In recent years, student loan debt has become a serious issue in the United States. According to a recent report cited by CNBC, 44 million Americans currently owe student loan...

Under Illinois law, paternity is presumed when the mother is married — meaning no action is required to make her husband the legal father of the child. For unmarried couples,...

Following the end of a marriage, the spouse who has greater financial means may be ordered to pay support (alimony) to their former partner. In Illinois, alimony is most often...

Way back in the day, emotional abuse, which was then called mental cruelty, was basically the only way to obtain a divorce. Then, in 1969, incoming California Governor Ronald Reagan...

A generation ago, most children grew up in “traditional” families. They lived with a married father and mother who had never been married to anyone else, along with their pure...