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The holidays are here, and with the season, a certain amount of family stress is expected.

This writer only wishes he could wear the mantle of constitutional scholar. The best he can do is claim the appellation: constitutional observer.

When you're a parent, whether that's a biological parent, legal guardian, adoptive parent, step-parent, or anything in between, you can make decisions for your child.

If you haven't already created a holiday parenting schedule with your ex, you should contact them right away to work out the details.

In In re Parentage of D.F., 2024 IL App (1st) 231784, the petitioner, a woman who was in a long-term relationship with another woman who gave birth to two children (birth mother)...

Under §501 of the Illinois Marriage and Dissolution of Marriage Act, 750 ILCS 5/101, et seq., the trial court may grant temporary relief, including ordering the purchase or sale of assets.

In Sadler v. Pulliam, 2022 IL App (5th) 220213, the father filed a petition to establish parentage and for parental responsibility. After an extensive trial, ...

Kittie started dating her daughter's boyfriend Butch when he was 17 years old. They apparently dated for over twenty years, during which time Kittie purchased him a house to "use."

It isn’t just the accountants who suffer in April. Not that they garner much sympathy but lawyers who do divorce work are also afflicted by a tsunami of telephone calls that begin a couple days before April 15.

Some lawyers adopt an aggressive stance as a deliberate strategy, believing it will secure better outcomes for their clients. Others may be combative by nature.

In some cases, marriages end soon after they begin, prompting individuals to consider annulment as an alternative to divorce. In Washington State, a Petition for Invalidity of Marriage serves as the legal equivalent...

In this most recent U.S. Supreme Court term, the Court has heard two cases involving the domestic relations of a state.

Four months from now, we will all be enjoying sunshine, warm weather, our beautiful beaches and of course, the Chicago Cubs.

The new Tax Cuts and Jobs Act repeals the deduction for alimony payments after 2018.

In the Matter of MJM v. MM, an interesting new decision released earlier last week from the New York Supreme Court in Suffolk County, the trial judge held that a paternal grandmother petitioning for visitation with her grandchildren lacked standing to seek such relief.

B.M. – that is before the Minkowitz decision that we previously blogged on (which lead to a second post on arbitration best practices), it was common practice at the start of an arbitration, just like it is common practice before the start of a trial, to take one last crack at trying a case.

November has been declared National Adoption Month!