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Tag Archives: Lake Forest Divorce Attorney
Tips on How to Reconnect with an Estranged Child
Some parents have estranged relationships with their children. Whether the estrangement was caused by bad decisions, alienation by the other parent, geographical constraints, service in the military and separation from the child for a long period of time, or other … Continue reading
A Practical Guide to Navigating Visitation Disputes
All too often, litigants work tirelessly to finalize a comprehensive parenting order only to have disputes over parenting time after the order is entered. The purpose of this article is to provide a few practical tips to deal with these … Continue reading
Don’t Delay Seeking College Contribution from Your Ex-Spouse
One of the issues typically reserved in contested divorce cases is who will pay the children’s college after they graduate high school. Typically, most Marital Settlement Agreements will reserve this issue for determination at a later date, primarily because it … Continue reading
Am I Frozen Out of My Spouse’s Frozen Pension Plan?
Many traditional defined benefit pension plans that provide a monthly annuity payment to the employee at retirement have been frozen over the past decade. There are a number of reasons why corporations are freezing their pension plans, mostly economic. What … Continue reading
Posted in Divorce, Retirement Benefits
Tagged Chicago Divorce Attorneys, Divorce, DuPage Divorce Attorney, Frozen Pension, Illinois Family Law, Illinois Pension, Illinois QDRO, Lake Forest Divorce Attorney, Pension, Pension and Divorce, QDRO, Qualified Domestic Relations Order, Retirement Benefits, Schiller DuCanto & Fleck, Wheaton Divorce Attorney
Protecting Your Lifestyle During and After Divorce
Divorce can be an emotionally stressful and challenging time. Unfortunately, the divorce process can be made even more difficult when one spouse acts punitively to hurt their former partner by engaging in tactics that manipulate one party’s financial resources in … Continue reading
Confidentiality of Custody Evaluations
Cases involving the custody of children are undoubtedly the most difficult cases for family law judges. Instead of dealing with objective numbers—calculating the value of a marital or non-marital estate by reviewing bank and brokerage account records, tax returns, applications … Continue reading
Posted in Child Custody & Visitation, Divorce, Recent Cases & Law
Tagged Appellate Decision, Chicago Divorce, Chicago Divorce Attorney, Child Custody, Children, Custody Evaluator, Divorce, DuPage Divorce Attorney, Family Law Psychologist, Illinois Divorce, Illinois Family Law, Illinois Supreme Court, Lake Forest Divorce Attorney, Schiller DuCanto & Fleck, Wheaton Divorce Attorney
Retaining Your Non Marital Property After Divorce
Most people contemplating or going through a divorce are looking to retain as much of their property as possible. That property is divided into two classifications: marital and non-marital property. Marital property in Illinois generally consists of property acquired during … Continue reading
Flash Point: Mandatory Interest on Unpaid Child Support Payments Effective May 1, 1987
The Illinois Supreme Court recently held that mandatory interest on child support payments became effective as of May 1, 1987. The support obligor father had been largely delinquent in payments from 1992 through 2005. He conceded that mandatory interest accrued … Continue reading
Posted in Child Support, Divorce, Recent Cases & Law
Tagged Back Child Support, Chicago Divorce, Chicago Divorce Attorney, Child Support, DuPage Divorce Attorney, IICLE Family Law Flash Points, Illinois Divorce, Illinois Family Law, Lake Forest Divorce Attorney, Unpaid Child Support, Wheaton Divorce Attorney
Tax Filing or Fooling: Review Your Spouse’s Tax Forms
Among the annual rites of spring is the filing of your income tax return. In the majority of households, that means one spouse will simply ask another to ”sign here,” and the other spouse never looks at any part of … Continue reading
Flash Point: Child’s Receipt of Dependent Social Security Benefits did not Entitle Father to a Setoff Against Medical Support Arrearage
A father who became permanently and completely disabled after a car accident challenged the trial court’s ruling that the child’s receipt of a lump sum payment of approximately $13,000 as retroactive social security dependant payment should offset $3,967 that he … Continue reading
Posted in Child Support, Health Benefits, Recent Cases & Law
Tagged Chicago Divorce, Chicago Divorce Attorney, Child Support, Divorce, IICLE Family Law Flash Points, Illinois Divorce, Illinois Family Law, Lake Forest Divorce Attorney, Schiller DuCanto & Fleck, Social Security Dependant Payment, Wheaton Divorce Attorney
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