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What is Considered Marital Property in Illinois?
The marital property rule in the Prairie State, which is found in Section 503 of the Marriage and Dissolution of Marriage Act, is relatively straightforward. With a few exceptions, assets or debts acquired during the marriage are marital property. Everything else is
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Understanding How Assets are Divided in a High Asset Divorce
Many people do not know that the parties themselves have almost exclusive control over issues like property division in a high-asset divorce. Roughly 95% of divorce cases settle out of court. Judges usually encourage these settlements for various reasons. So, they usually
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Can Your Divorce be Denied in Illinois?
In ye olden days, divorce petitioners had to prove cruelty, abandonment, adultery, or another kind of marital misconduct by a preponderance of the evidence, or more likely than not. So, if a petitioner had insufficient evidence, the judge could easily deny the
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What You Might Expect When You Meet with a Divorce Lawyer
If you are moving toward a divorce, you might have plenty of worries, but meeting with your divorce attorney for the first time shouldn’t be one of them. In fact, there are certain things that you can expect at this meeting, and
