by admin | Mar 13, 2024 | Conscientious Counsel, Family Law, Insights
Divorce is tough. No way around it. Even the most amicable of cases are filled with emotion and hardship. The reason is actually quite simple and obvious: No one enters a marriage thinking that it will end in divorce. As a divorce lawyer and mediator, I deal with...
by admin | Nov 8, 2022 | Family Law, Insights
The issue of whether a certain type of business profit should be considered personal income for support purposes has always been a difficult one. A recent Illinois Appellate Court decision may have clarified the issue. Since a sub-S corporation is a pass-through...
by admin | Nov 8, 2022 | Family Law, Insights
Divorce can be daunting and mystifying. No matter how someone comes to the process, questions are likely to abound from how one actually initiates a divorce to what an utlimate settlement may look like. There are also several common misperceptions people have about...
by admin | Nov 8, 2022 | Family Law, Insights
Twenty years ago the internet’s full potential could not even be imagined. Email was emerging as a primary method of communication, but the Blackberry wasn’t being fully utilized until around 2003 and the Iphone wasn’t released until 2007. In other words, whether it...
by admin | Nov 8, 2022 | Conflict Resolution, Family Law, Insights, Negotiation
Family law cases are a highly complex mixture of finances, emotions, and parenting dynamics combined with the application of a set of laws that can be both flexible and rigid at the same time. Each family presents their own specific set of facts unique to them. While...
by admin | Nov 8, 2022 | Conflict Resolution, Family Law, Insights, Negotiation
In family law, there is no substitute for experience. The battle scars of experience help guide strategy and negotiations in difficult cases, and it is important to have an attorney who has some battle scars leading a complex case. Battle scars also provide an...
