Next Steps – Petition, Answer and Other Common Pleadings in Family Law (Includes Sample Forms!)

Discovery is key to effective representation in divorce cases. Learn about the document production required at the initial stages of a divorce case and the evidentiary value of recorded conversations, text messages, Facebook messages, emails and other communications.

Learn how to calculate child support under the income shares model and how to successfully argue for and against deviations.

This presentation provides a nuts-and-bolts discussion of the Illinois Firearms Restraining Order Act that went into effect January 1, 2019, including a comparison of processes and procedures for obtaining such orders to the processes and procedures used for Orders of Protection and Stalking No Contact Orders. This program also includes an overview of due process protections set forth in the Act and possible areas for improvement and clarification of the Act.