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List of Forms by Chapter - Chapter 1 — Practical and Ethical Considerations
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I. Introduction - II. Interviewing the Client
- Method
- [1.5] Schedule Appointment
- [1.6] Interview Checklist of Lawyer
- [1.7] Checklist for Lawyer’s Evaluation
- [1.8] Advice to Client
- [1.9] In General
- [1.10] Parental Responsibilities and Parenting Time; Can the Child Be Relocated from the Hometown of the Parties
- [1.11] Support and Maintenance
- [1.12] Temporary Maintenance and Attorneys’ Fees
- [1.13] Indefinite Maintenance
- III. [1.14] Discharge and Substitution of Attorneys
- IV. Attorney Representation
- [1.15] Limited Representation
- [1.16] Dual Representation and Conflict of Interest
- [1.17] Rules of Professional Conduct
- [1.18] When Spouse Will Not Hire Lawyer
- [1.19] Unrepresented Spouse — Procedure and Formal Agreement
- [1.20] Contacting Other Spouse Initially
- [1.21] Procedure
- [1.22] First Interview with Opponent or Attorney
- V. [1.23] Practical Considerations Regarding Agreements — Factors in Negotiation
- VI. Attorney’s Duties After Judgment
- [1.27] Judgment — Recording and Service
- Advice and Assistance to Client
- [1.28] Eligibility To Remarry
- [1.29] Client’s Will, Retirement Accounts and Life Insurance After Judgment for Dissolution or Declaration of Invalidity of Marriage
- [1.30] Income Tax Return After Judgment
- [1.31] Enforcement of Judgment for Dissolution
- [1.32] Police Protection if Client Fears Violence
- VII. [1.33] What To Avoid in Domestic Relations Cases
- VIII. [1.34] Bounds of Advocacy — Standards of Conduct
- Chapter 2 — Attorneys’ Fees
- I. Attorney-Client Relationship
- Forming Relationship
- [2.1] Engagement Agreements
- [2.2] Maintaining Time Records
- [2.3] Who Should Maintain Time Records
- [2.4] Details of Writing Time Records
- [2.5] Specificity of time records
- [2.6] Explicit description of conferences
- [2.7] Scrutiny of “revising documents”
- [2.8] Scrutiny of “reviewing documents”
- [2.9] Fees pertaining to cocounsel or substitute counsel
- [2.10] Routine and administrative matters
- [2.11] Duplicative time
- [2.12] Contemporaneous Time Records
- [2.13] Respecting Fiduciary Duty to Client
- [2.14] Burden of Proof as to Financial Matters
- [2.15] Consequences of Breach of Fiduciary Duty
- [2.16] Obtaining Security for Fees
- Termination of Relationship
- [2.17] Client’s Right To Discharge Attorney
- [2.18] Attorney’s Right To Withdraw from Case
- II. Trial Court’s Jurisdiction To Award Fees
- Expiration and Termination of Trial Court’s Jurisdiction
- [2.19] Normal Expiration of Jurisdiction
- [2.20] Deadline for Filing Petition for Award of Fees from Client
- [2.21] Deadline for Filing Petition for Contribution from Client’s Spouse
- Exceptions to Normal Expiration of Jurisdiction
- [2.22] Trial court may retain its jurisdiction by “reserving jurisdiction”
- [2.23] Trial court may regain its jurisdiction if party waives right to object to court’s jurisdiction
- [2.24] Trial court retains jurisdiction to award interim fees for appeal if notice of appeal is filed
- Termination of Jurisdiction by Acts of Parties
- [2.25] Dismissal
- [2.26] Voluntary Dismissal
- [2.27] Death of Party
- [2.28] Remarriage
- [2.29] Waiver
- [2.30] Limited Reacquisition of Jurisdiction After Appeal
- III. [2.31] Seeking 750 ILCS 5/508(b) Sanctions Against Client’s Spouse for Violation of Court Order
- IV. [2.38] Seeking Interim or Final Award of Contribution in Dissolution Case
- [2.39] In General
- [2.40] Who Has Standing
- [2.41] Time for Filing Petition for Attorneys’ Fees and Costs
- [2.42] Petition for Interim Fees and Costs During Dissolution Proceedings
- [2.43] Summary of 750 ILCS 5/501(c-1)
- [2.44] For Prospective Attorneys’ Fees and Costs
- For Incurred Attorneys’ Fees and Costs
- [2.45] In General
- [2.46] For Attorneys Who Have Withdrawn or Been Discharged
- [2.47] Components of Petition for Interim Fees and Costs
- [2.48] Responsive Pleadings
- [2.49] Hearing on Petition for Interim Fees and Costs
- [2.50] Decision by Court
- [2.51] Effect of Interim Fee Award
- Petition for Final Fees and Costs in Dissolution Proceedings
- [2.52] Court’s Authority To Award Fees and Costs
- [2.53] Summary of 750 ILCS 5/503(j)
- [2.54] Time for Filing Petition for Fees and Costs
- [2.55] No Existing Agreement Between Parties
- Filing of Required Documents
- [2.56] Written Petition for Fees
- [2.57] Affidavits
- [2.58] Necessary Components of Fee Petition
- [2.59] Allege statutory authority
- [2.60] Establish qualifications of attorneys and expert witnesses
- [2.61] Set forth amount requested
- [2.62] Set forth hourly rates
- [2.63] Itemize services performed and costs incurred
- [2.64] Allege reasonable necessity of services and reasonableness of fees
- [2.65] Allege client’s obligation to pay fees
- [2.66] Allege petitioning party’s inability and responding party’s ability to pay (or failure to comply with court order)
- [2.67] Verify petition
- [2.68] No Waiver of Attorney-Client Privilege
- [2.69] Responding Party’s Response and Hearing Request
- Trial on Final Fee Petition
- [2.70] Time for Trial
- [2.71] Possibility of Full Evidentiary Hearing
- [2.72] Order of Proof
- [2.73] Proving Entitlement to Contribution
- [2.74] Proving element of financial justification
- [2.75] Types of evidence that may be used
- Who qualifies for award of contribution
- [2.76] In general
- [2.77] Factors pertaining to petitioning party’s entitlement to contribution
- Income
- [2.78] Current income
- [2.79] Employment (earning capacity)
- [2.80] Age and health
- [2.81] Effect of payment of fees on client’s means of support and economic stability
- [2.82] Prospective income
- [2.83] Parties’ net worth
- [2.84] Either party’s payment of own legal fees
- [2.85] Noneconomic factors courts consider
- Establishing that responding party should be required to pay petitioning party’s fees
- [2.86] In general
- [2.87] Evidentiary considerations
- [2.88] Factors in Determining Amount of Fees To Be Awarded
- [2.89] Time required to perform legal services
- Evidentiary considerations
- [2.90] Burden of proof
- [2.91] Submitting engagement agreement into evidence
- Proving time spent
- [2.92] Detailed time records
- [2.93] Contemporaneous time records
- [2.94] Attorney-client privilege
- [2.95] Refreshing recollection
- [2.96] Best-evidence rule
- [2.97] Questioning by judge
- [2.98] Opinion of attorney
- [2.99] Judge’s knowledge and experience
- [2.100] Reliance on pleadings and affidavits on file
- [2.101] Quality of services provided
- Results obtained or value of services
- [2.102] In general
- [2.103] Evidentiary considerations
- [2.104] Novelty of issues
- [2.105] Importance of subject matter
- [2.106] Difficulty/complexity of issues
- [2.107] Preclusion of attorney’s other employment
- [2.108] Comparison of fees requested with usual and customary charges
- [2.109] Locality
- [2.110] Rates for court time and non-court time
- [2.111] Comparison of fees requested with amount at stake (value of case)
- [2.112] Attorney’s experience, reputation, and ability
- [2.113] Degree of professionalism
- [2.114] Effect on attorney’s welfare and nerves
- [2.115] Other factors
- [2.116] Need for Expert Witness
- [2.117] Reasonableness of fees
- [2.118] Other issues
- [2.119] Choice of expert witness
- [2.120] Disclosure of expert witness
- V. Opposing Petition for Final Award of Contribution in Dissolution Case
- VI. Decision by Court on Petition for Final Award of Contribution in Dissolution Case
- [2.123] Trial Court’s Broad Discretion
- [2.124] Court’s Discretion as to Financial Justification Element
- [2.125] Court’s Discretion as to Amount of Fees
- [2.126] Abuse of Trial Court’s Discretion
- [2.127] Petitioning Party Establishing Inability To Pay Own Fees and Ability of Responding Party To Pay Some or All of Them
- [2.128] Petitioning Party Failing To Establish Inability To Pay Own Fees
- [2.129] Specific Findings Not Required by Trial Court
- Res Judicata
- [2.130] Definition
- [2.131] Application of Doctrine
- [2.132] Collateral Estoppel
- VII. [2.133] Seeking Interim or Final Award of Contribution in Postjudgment Matters
- VIII. [2.139] Seeking Fees from Other Parent in Paternity Cases
- IX. [2.144] Seeking Interim or Final Award of Contribution for Appeals
- For Prospective Fees and Costs
- [2.145] Prospective Fees and Costs To Defend Appeal
- [2.146] Jurisdiction of Trial Court To Make Award
- [2.147] Effect of Cross-Appeal
- Procedure for Obtaining Prospective Fees
- [2.148] Filing of petition
- [2.149] Hearing on petition
- [2.150] Proving factors
- [2.151] Financial justification for award
- [2.152] Proving reasonable necessity of services and reasonableness of fees
- [2.153] Decision by court
- [2.154] Prospective Fees and Costs To Prosecute Appeal
- For Final Fees and Costs After Completion of Appeal
- Final Fees and Costs for Defending Appeal
- [2.155] In General
- [2.156] Proving Factors
- Final Fees and Costs for Prosecuting Appeal
- [2.157] In General
- [2.158] Proving Factors
- X. [2.159] Seeking Award of Fees Against Your Own Client
- [2.160] Consent Judgments Under 750 ILCS 5/508(d)
- [2.161] Petitions for Interim Fees Under 750 ILCS 5/508(a)
- [2.162] Petitions for Final Fees Under 750 ILCS 5/508(c)
- [2.163] Summary of 750 ILCS 5/508(c)
- [2.164] Time for Filing Petition
- [2.165] Procedure for Petitioning Party
- [2.166] Procedure for Responding Party
- [2.167] Hearing and Decision
- [2.168] Burden of Proof
- [2.169] No Collateral Estoppel
- [2.170] Waiver of Attorney-Client Privilege
- [2.171] Measure of “Damages”
- [2.172] Filing Independent Lawsuit
- [2.173] Summary of 750 ILCS 5/508(e)
- [2.174] Right of Responding Party To Implead Spouse
- [2.175] Other Considerations
- Actions in Quasi-Contract
- [2.176] Quantum Meruit
- [2.177] Burden of proof in quantum meruit cases
- [2.178] Measure of fees
- [2.179] Account Stated
- XI. Defending Against Petition or Independent Lawsuit Filed by Client
- XII. Appellate Review of Fee Awards
- [2.182] Only Final Orders Appealable
- [2.183] Time To File Appeal
- [2.184] Appellant’s Responsibilities
- [2.185] Abuse of Discretion Standard
- [2.186] What Constitutes Abuse of Discretion
- Examples of Abuse of Discretion
- [2.187] Financial Justification Element
- [2.188] Amount of Fees Awarded
- [2.189] 750 ILCS 5/508(b) Petition for Fees Incurred To Enforce Court Order
- [2.190] Waiver of Issues Prior to Appeal
- Chapter 3 — Pleadings Under the Illinois Marriage and Dissolution of Marriage Act
- I. Scope of Chapter
- II. Planning the Pleadings
- III. Pre-Pleading Strategy
- [3.10] Strategic Factors
- Fact/Notice Pleading
- [3.11] Degree of Detail
- [3.12] Inconsistent Pleading
- [3.13] Constraints
- [3.14] Type of Action
- Venue
- [3.15] Dissolution
- [3.16] Forum Shopping
- [3.17] Objections to Venue
- [3.18] Separation
- Parties
- [3.19] Traditional Parties
- [3.20] Additional Parties
- [3.21] Competency
- [3.22] Other Party-Related Issues and Death of a Party
- [3.23] Grounds
- Counterpetition
- [3.24] Defendant’s Posture
- [3.25] Plaintiff’s Posture
- Degree of Detail
- [3.26] Property
- [3.27] Effect on Admissions
- [3.28] Amending Pleadings
- [3.29] Other Strategy Issues
- [3.30] Language and Style
- [3.31] Form
- [3.32] Careful Reading and Adaptation
- [3.33] Factors Affecting Timing
- [3.34] Residence
- [3.35] Age/Health
- [3.36] Allocation of Parental Responsibilities
- [3.37] Property
- [3.38] Timing of Petition for Invalidity
- IV. Filing Issues
- V. [3.41] Actual Drafting
- [3.42] Dissolution Action Stay
- [3.43] Praecipe for Summons
- [3.44] Summons
- [3.45] Preparation of the Summons
- [3.46] Service of the Summons
- [3.47] Voluntary Acceptance
- [3.48] Counter Service
- [3.49] Special Process Server
- [3.50] Sheriff’s Service
- [3.51] Publication
- [3.52] Long-Arm Service
- Pleadings for Special Process Server
- [3.53] Legal Basis
- [3.54] Sample Motion for Appointment of Special Process Server
- [3.55] Sample Order Appointing Special Process Server
- Petition for Dissolution of Marriage
- [3.56] Statutory Basis
- Examples of Petitions
- [3.57] Sample Petition for Dissolution of Marriage
- [3.58] Joint Petition for Simplified Dissolution of Marriage
- [3.59] Sample Certification and Verification
- [3.60] Discussion of Sample Petition and Alternative Allegations
- [3.61] Caption
- [3.62] Preamble
- [3.63] Individual Allegations
- [3.64] Allegation 1: personal jurisdiction
- [3.65] Allegations 2 – 4: subject-matter jurisdiction — marriage and grounds
- [3.66] Allegations 5 – 6: information about the parties
- [3.67] Allegation 7: information about the children
- [3.68] Allegation 8: allocation of parental responsibilities
- [3.69] Allegation 9: marital property
- [3.70] Filing creates vested property rights
- [3.71] Statutory definition of “marital property”
- [3.72] Alternative marital property allegations
- [3.73] Allegation 10: nonmarital property
- [3.74] Allegation 11: marital debts
- [3.75] Allegation 12: prior arrangements
- [3.76] Allegations 13 – 14: child support
- [3.77] Allegations 15 – 16: maintenance
- [3.78] Allegations 17 – 20: attorneys’ fees
- [3.79] Miscellaneous additional allegations
- [3.80] Appointment of an attorney, representative, or guardian ad litem for the children
- [3.81] Exclusive possession of the marital residence
- [3.82] Resuming a former name
- [3.83] Visitation by certain nonparents
- [3.84] Dissipation
- [3.85] Sample notice for affirmative claim of dissipation
- [3.86] Prayer or Request for Relief
- [3.87] Attorney Identification
- [3.88] Signature and Verification
- [3.89] Documents To File with the Petition
- [3.90] Certificate of Dissolution
- [3.91] Domestic Relations Cover Sheet
- [3.92] Application, Affidavit, and Order for Waiver of Court Fees
- [3.93] Sample Motion Seeking Waiver of Requirement To Disclose Address
- [3.94] Sample Affidavit with Respect to Disclosure of Address
- [3.95] Sample Order Waiving Disclosure of Address
- [3.96] Documents/Pleadings Responsive to Petition
- [3.97] Bill of Particulars
- [3.98] Sample Demand for Bill of Particulars
- [3.99] Sample Bill of Particulars
- [3.100] Legal Basis
- [3.101] Timing
- [3.102] Comparable Relief by Motion
- Response
- [3.103] Sample Response to Petition for Dissolution of Marriage
- [3.104] Admissions/Denials
- [3.105] Affirmative Allegations
- [3.106] Request for Relief
- [3.107] Reply
- Appearance
- [3.108] General Appearance
- [3.109] District Transfer Form
- [3.110] Objections to Jurisdiction over the Person
- [3.111] No Appearance
- Counterpetition
- [3.112] Sample Counterpetition for Dissolution of Marriage
- [3.113] Discussion of Counterpetition
- [3.114] Sample Motion for Leave To File Counterpetition
- [3.115] Service
- Judgment of Dissolution of Marriage
- [3.116] Sample Judgment of Dissolution of Marriage
- Discussion of Judgment of Dissolution
- [3.117] In General
- [3.118] Finding 7: Maintenance
- [3.119] Finding 8: Child Support
- [3.120] Finding 9: Allocation of Parental Responsibilities
- [3.121] Finding 10: Agreement of the Parties
- [3.122] Finding 11: Not Unconscionable
- [3.123] Relief Granted
- Legal Separation
- [3.124] Sample Petition for Legal Separation
- Discussion of Petition for Legal Separation
- [3.125] In General
- [3.126] Legal Basis
- [3.127] Difference Between Dissolution and Separation
- [3.128] Relief
- [3.129] Response to Legal Separation
- [3.130] Counterpetition to Legal Separation
- [3.131] Sample Judgment for Legal Separation
- [3.132] Discussion of Judgment for Legal Separation
- Chapter 4 — Declaration of Invalidity of Marriage
- I. Introduction
- [4.1] Scope of Chapter
- Distinctions
- [4.2] Between Declaration of Invalidity of Marriage and Dissolution of Marriage
- Between Prohibited and Voidable Marriages
- [4.3] Prohibited Marriages
- [4.4] Voidable Marriages
- [4.5] Importance of Distinction Between Prohibited (Void) and Voidable Marriages
- Choosing Between Declaration of Invalidity of Marriage and Dissolution of Marriage When Either Is Possible
- Advantages — Legal and Practical
- [4.6] Dissolution
- [4.7] Declaration of Invalidity
- Disadvantages — Legal and Practical
- [4.8] Dissolution
- [4.9] Declaration of Invalidity
- [4.10] Income Tax Consequences of Declaration of Invalidity
- [4.11] Legitimacy of Children
- II. Basic Considerations
- [4.12] Jurisdiction, Venue, and Service of Process
- [4.13] Effect of Judgment
- Defenses
- [4.14] Prohibited (Void) Marriages
- [4.15] Voidable Marriages
- [4.16] Nature of Defenses
- [4.17] Denying and Disproving Facts
- [4.18] Ratification, Estoppel, and Laches
- [4.19] In Pari Delicto
- [4.20] Unclean Hands
- [4.21] Rules on Court Hearing
- [4.22] Contested Cases
- [4.23] Uncontested Cases
- [4.24] Burden of Proof
- III. Petition for Declaration of Invalidity of Marriage
- [4.25] In General
- [4.26] Title of Court
- [4.27] Title of Document
- [4.28] Title of Cause and Introduction
- Allegation: Status of Petitioner Who Is Not a Party to Marriage
- [4.29] If Petitioner Is a Minor
- [4.30] If Petitioner Is Incompetent
- [4.31] If Party Who Should Be Petitioner Is Deceased
- Date and Place of Marriage
- [4.32] If Marriage Is Voidable
- [4.33] If Marriage Is Prohibited
- Grounds
- [4.34] Allegation: Consanguinity of the Parties
- [4.35] Allegation: Former Spouse Living (Bigamous Marriage)
- [4.36] Allegation: Under Age of Legal Consent
- [4.37] Allegation: Unsound Mind — Influence of Intoxicant or Narcotic
- [4.38] Allegation: Fraud
- [4.39] Allegation: Force and Duress
- [4.40] Allegation: Physical Incapacity
- [4.41] Allegation: Intoxication
- [4.42] Allegation: Denial of Ratification
- [4.43] Allegation: Children
- [4.44] Allegation: Allocation of Parental Responsibilities
- [4.45] Allegation: Child Support
- [4.46] Allegation: Marital Property
- [4.47] Allegation: Restoration of Former Name
- Prayer
- [4.48] Introduction
- [4.49] Prayer: Declaration of Invalidity of Marriage
- [4.50] Prayer: Allocation of Parental Responsibilities
- [4.51] Prayer: Child Support
- [4.52] Prayer: Distribution of Marital Property
- [4.53] Prayer: Restoration of Name
- [4.54] Prayer: General Relief
- [4.55] Date, Signature, and Verification
- IV. Judgment
- Chapter 5 — Divorce Against the Absent Spouse
- I. Jurisdiction
- [5.1] In Personam vs. In Rem Jurisdiction
- [5.2] Prerequisites for Jurisdiction To Grant a Judgment
- [5.3] Residency
- [5.4] Grounds
- [5.5] Proper Service of Summons
- [5.6] Personal Service
- [5.7] Constructive/Substituted Service
- [5.8] Service by Special Order of the Court
- [5.9] Service by Publication
- [5.10] Statutory requirements
- [5.11] In rem jurisdiction
- [5.12] Due inquiry
- [5.13] Due Process and the Illinois Long-Arm Statute — Limits on the Exercise of the Courts’ Jurisdiction
- [5.14] Objections to Jurisdiction over the Person
- Effect of Jurisdiction on Various Issues
- [5.15] Obtaining and Modifying Maintenance Awards and Decrees
- [5.16] Property Distribution
- Child Support
- [5.17] In General
- Specific Illinois and Federal Statutes
- Illinois statutes
- [5.18] Illinois Marriage and Dissolution of Marriage Act
- [5.19] Uniform Interstate Family Support Act
- [5.20] Other Illinois statutes
- [5.21] Federal statutes
- [5.22] Full Faith and Credit for Child Support Orders Act
- [5.23] Other federal statutes
- [5.24] Awards of Attorneys’ Fees
- [5.25] Awards of Educational Expenses
- [5.26] Child Custody
- [5.27] Foreign Country Orders vs. Illinois Orders on Custody
- [5.28] Partition
- II. [5.29] Limitations on the Jurisdiction of the Courts To Proceed
- [5.30] Default Judgments
- [5.31] Parental Kidnaping Prevention Act and Uniform Child-Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act
- [5.32] Servicemembers Civil Relief Act of 2003
- [5.33] Purpose
- [5.34] Definitions
- [5.35] Territorial Application
- [5.36] Special Provisions
- [5.37] Default Judgments Against Military Servicemembers
- Stays in Proceedings Involving Service Personnel
- [5.38] In General
- [5.39] Considerations in Granting a Stay
- [5.40] Duration of the Stay
- III. [5.41] Administrative and Legal Proceedings Against Persons in the Armed Forces Pertaining to Support, Maintenance, Paternity, Custody, and Visitation
- [5.42] Army
- Responsibilities
- [5.43] Army Commanders
- [5.44] Army Personnel
- [5.45] Release of Information; Privacy
- [5.46] Family Support Obligations
- [5.47] Support Arrearages
- [5.48] Garnishment
- [5.49] Involuntary Allotments
- [5.50] Custody
- [5.51] Paternity
- [5.52] Basic Allowance for Housing
- [5.53] Medical, Hospital, and Prescription Coverages
- [5.54] Navy and Marines
- Responsibilities
- [5.55] Naval and Marine Commanders
- [5.56] Naval and Marine Personnel
- [5.57] Support Guidelines
- [5.58] Garnishment
- [5.59] Paternity
- [5.60] Basic Allowance for Housing
- [5.61] Air Force
- [5.62] Responsibilities
- [5.63] Garnishment
- [5.64] Allotments
- [5.65] Paternity
- [5.66] Coast Guard
- IV. [5.67] Federal Legislation Relative to Collection of Child Support and Maintenance
- V. [5.74] Services Provided to Private Counsel and Their Clients by the State of Illinois
- Chapter 6 — Discovery
- I. Introduction
- II. [6.6] Financial Affidavits
- III. Interrogatories
- IV. [6.11] Requests for Production of Documents and Other Tangible Things
- V. [6.14] Mental and Physical Examinations of Parties
- VI. Depositions
- VII. Requests for Admission
- VIII. [6.24] Objections to Discovery
- IX. [6.28] Enforcing Discovery Requests and Obtaining Sanctions — Supreme Court Rule 219
- X. Appendix
- Chapter 7 — Client Management and Education
- I. [7.1] Introduction
- II. Initial Client Conference
- III. [7.14] Initial Pleadings
- IV. Discovery and the Client
- V. [7.23] Temporary Hearings
- VI. [7.24] Alternative Dispute Resolution
- VII. [7.29] Confidential Court-Ordered Counseling for a Child
- VIII. [7.30] Parental Responsibilities Evaluations
- IX. [7.31] Guardian ad Litem/Attorney for the Child/Child Representative
- X. [7.32] Parenting Coordinators
- XI. [7.33] Negotiations
- XII. Trial
- XIII. [7.37] Conclusion
Authors
- David C. Ainley
David C. Ainley
David C. Ainley is a Partner at Katz & Stefani, LLC, in Chicago, where he concentrates his practice in family law. Ainley is a Fellow in the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers and a diplomate of the American College of Family Trial Lawyers. He earned his B.S. from Purdue and his J.D. from the University of Illinois Chicago School of Law.
- Samantha Bell Sugarman
Samantha Bell Sugarman
Samantha Bell Sugarman is a Partner at GMR Family Law LLP, in Chicago, where she concentrates her practice on family law. She was Chair of the Chicago Bar Association’s Domestic Relations Committee (2017 – 2018) and has been named an Illinois Rising Star in the area of family law. She earned her B.A. summa cum laude from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and her J.D. magna cum laude from the University of Illinois College of Law. She is also a graduate from the National Family Law Trial Institute.
- Derek J. Bradford
Derek J. Bradford
Derek J. Bradford is a Founding Partner at Bradford & Gordon, LLC, in Chicago, where he concentrates his practice on family law and domestic relations. Bradford is a member of Collaborative Divorce Illinois and the DuPage County Bar Association. He earned his B.A. from Washington State University and his J.D. from Loyola University Chicago School of Law.
- Marcus Dominguez
Marcus Dominguez
Marcus Dominguez is an associate at Beermann LLP, in Chicago, and focuses his practice on family law. Dominguez has been named a Best Lawyers One to Watch and a Super Lawyers 2023 Rising Star. Dominguez received his B.A. from Kansas State University and his J.D. from Loyola University School of Law.
- Abigail S. Ellis
Abigail S. Ellis
Abigail S. Ellis is a law clerk at Berger Schatz, in Chicago, and works in family law. She graduated summa cum laude from DePaul University and she is a 2024 J.D. candidate at Chicago-Kent College of Law.
- Katya C. Fuentes
Katya C. Fuentes
Katya C. Fuentes is a Partner at Berger Schatz, in Chicago, and focuses on family law. Fuentes is a Member of the American Inns of Court. She received her J.D. from Chicago-Kent College of Law.
- Jessica Bank Interlandi
Jessica Bank Interlandi
Jessica Bank Interlandi is a Partner at Schiller DuCanto & Fleck LLP, in Chicago, Lake Forest, and Wheaton, and focuses on family Law. She was a Best Lawyers Lawyer of the Year for Chicago family law in 2024 and has been named a Super Lawyer. She received her B.A. from Georgetown University and her J.D. for Chicago-Kent College of Law.
- Meredith C. Janes
Meredith C. Janes
Meredith C. Janes is an associate at Berger Schatz, in Chicago, and concentrates her practice on family law. Janes was selected as a 2023 Super Lawyers Illinois Rising Start. She graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and received her J.D. from Chicago-Kent College of Law.
- Karen Pinkert-Lieb
Karen Pinkert-Lieb
Karen Pinkert-Lieb is a Senior Partner with Schiller DuCanto & Fleck LLP, in Chicago, where she focuses on family law. Pinkert-Lieb has been named Family Law Lawyer of the Year by Best Lawyers in America, as well as the number one Female Divorce Attorney in Illinois by Leading Lawyers Network. She is also named annually in Best Lawyers of America and Illinois Super Lawyers. Pinkert-Lieb earned her B.A. from the University of Texas and her J.D. cum laude from IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law.
- James M. Quigley
James M. Quigley
James M. Quigley is a Partner at Beermann LLP, in Chicago, focuses on family law. Quigley is a member of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers and the American College of Family Trial Lawyers. He has been chosen as an Illinois Super Lawyers. Quigley earned his B.A. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and his J.D. from DePaul University.
- Ameena Syed
Ameena Syed
Ameena Syed is an associate at Katz & Stefani, LLC, in Chicago, where she focuses on family law. Syed is a member of the South Asian Bar Association. She received her J.D. from DePaul University College of Law and her B.A. from Loyola University of Chicago.
- Jennifer S. Tier
Jennifer S. Tier
Jennifer S. Tier is a Partner at Davis Friedman, LLP, in Chicago and Northbrook, and concentrates her practice on domestic relations. Tier has received CALI Awards in Advanced Litigation Strategies in Domestic Relations and Trial Advocacy and has been listed as a Leading Lawyers Emerging Lawyer and Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in America. She received her B.A. magna cum laude from New York University and her J.D. from Chicago-Kent College of Law with a Certificate in Litigation and Alternative Dispute Resolution.
- William A. Trabaris
William A. Trabaris
William A. Trabaris is an associate at GMR Family Law LLP, in Chicago, where he focuses his practice on family law. Trabaris is a member of the National Lawyers Guild and the Illinois State and Chicago Bar Associations. He received his J.D. and advocacy certificate from Loyola School of Law and his B.A. from New York University. While in law school, he was a student guardian ad litem and a child representative with Civitas Childlaw Clinic and a Merit Scholar.
Family Law: Preliminary Considerations in Dissolution Actions 2023 Edition
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