Normalizing Financials Following COVID-19

Just when you learned what Snapchat was, you started to hear crazy phrases like TikTok, Twitter Spaces, and Caffeine. Review social media platforms, new and old, and how to get content from these sites into evidence. Explore the relevancy of posts (whether posted by the parties, the parties' children, or third parties) in dissolution matters.

The Illinois Child Support Guidelines provide that the court may “deviate” from the presumptive award “if the application would be inequitable, unjust, or inappropriate.” Review how the guidelines were developed, what are they based on and what “other factors” have courts considered that should not be overlooked. Focus will be on how to argue for deviations including in a high-income case, how to argue for private school and extracurricular activities, and medical and childcare expenses.

Focus on various executive employee benefits and how those should be thought about in divorce proceedings. The focus is on how equity benefits, deferred compensation, and perquisites work, and how they should be thought about in terms of maintenance and child support.