Divorce comes with plenty of financial questions – including questions about your children’s future education. If your children are young, however, you may not be paying careful attention to their upcoming college years. Nevertheless, it’s a good idea to take the question of who pays…
Those are probably four words you never thought you would see together in the same sentence of a legal blog. Yet the saga of Frank and Jamie McCourt, the former owners of the Los Angeles Dodgers, is one of the best lessons in the nuts…
Tense courtroom showdowns are a staple in many movies and TV shows. But the real world is different. Most divorce cases settle out of court. Divorce trials are expensive, both emotionally and financially. Additionally, the parties have almost no control over a trial’s outcome. So,…
Successful military campaigns require things like ample supplies, high morale, and effective leadership. The initiative, however, might be the most important thing of all. The side that moves aggressively, perhaps by taking the high ground, often prevails. Similarly, success in a family law case often…
Currently, out-of-wedlock births make up about 40% of all births in Cook County. This proportion is even higher in some communities. Raising a child is always challenging. Raising a child as a single parent is especially challenging. As outlined below, a paternity action makes this…
Once upon a time, only super-rich couples with substantial separate property bothered with premarital agreements. A web of complex laws governed these pacts. Furthermore, enforcement was uneven. Results might even vary among different judges in the same county. So, if the couple later divorced, a…
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