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May 01, 2016
IICLE Family Law Flash Points - May 2016
1. Attorneys’ fees are not equivalent to “lost wages” for a pro se litigant under 508(b). ...
Feb 01, 2016
IICLE Family Law Flash Points - February 2016
1. Earned retainer fees of $60,000 disgorged under the leveling of the playing field ...
Nov 01, 2015
IICLE Family Law Flash Points - November 2015
1. Despite a relationship for seven years, a biological mother’s former same sex partner ...
Aug 01, 2015
IICLE Family Law Flash Points - August 2015
1. New Illinois Marriage and Dissolution of Marriage Act and Parentage Act to take effect ...
May 01, 2015
IICLE Family Law Flash Points - May 2015
1. Appeal dismissed for lack of jurisdiction due to failure to notarize certificate of ...
Apr 01, 2016
IICLE Family Law Flash Points - April 2016
1. Bank statements and tax returns properly admitted into evidence as admission of ...
Jan 01, 2016
IICLE Family Law Flash Points - January 2016
1. Ex-wife entitled to enforce provision in judgment dividing ex-husband’s pension after ...
Oct 01, 2015
IICLE Family Law Flash Points - October 2015
1. Child support calculation which did not give credit for Social Security dependent ...
Jul 01, 2015
IICLE Family Law Flash Points - July 2015
1. United States Supreme Court legalizes same-sex marriages nationwide. In a 5-4 ...
Apr 01, 2015
IICLE Family Law Flash Points - April 2015
1. Supreme Court holds that equitable adoption doctrine does not apply to child custody ...
Mar 01, 2016
IICLE Family Law Flash Points - March 2016
1. Trial court’s $196,250 valuation of a family business that managed investment accounts ...
Dec 01, 2015
Top Ten Family Law Flash Points of 2015
1. New Illinois Marriage and Dissolution of Marriage Act and Parentage Act to take effect ...
Sep 01, 2015
IICLE Family Law Flash Points - September 2015
1. Although judgment for dissolution of marriage modified the parties’ marital settlement ...
Jun 01, 2015
IICLE Family Law Flash Points - June 2015
1. Trial court reversed for imputing new spouse’s income to mother when allocating ...
Mar 01, 2015
IICLE Family Law Flash Points - March 2015
1. Supreme Court finds issue of whether an interim parenting order was an injunction ...