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Section ProspectusThe mission of ISBA Family Law Section

  • to encourage and support a high level of professional and ethical commitment and expertise among those who practice family law in all its substantive branches;
  • to remain sensitive to the changing needs and mores of families and individual family members in our society; and
  • to respond, through reasoned efforts directed toward the appropriate branch of government, and bar and/or the public;
  • to accomplish understanding of the law as it exists and is applied, or change of that law, where it is needed.

Recent Related Cases

Illinois Appellate Court / Civil

Maintenance  |  3d Dist.

In re Marriage of Walther, 2018 IL App (3d) 170289 (April 3, 2018) Will Co. (HOLDRIDGE) Reversed and remanded with directions.

Illinois Appellate Court / Civil

Maintenance  |  2d Dist.

In re Marriage of Carstens, 2018 IL App (2d) 170183 (March 30, 2018) Lake Co. (HUDSON) Affirmed in part and reversed in part; remanded with directions.

Illinois Appellate Court / Civil

Orders of Protection  |  1st Dist.

In re Marriage of Sanchez, 2018 IL App (1st) 171075 (March 23, 2018) Cook Co., 1st Div. (ROCHFORD) Affirmed in part and dismissed in part.

Illinois Appellate Court / Civil

Visitation  |  5th Dist.

In re Marriage of Whitehead, 2018 IL App (5th) 170380 (March 8, 2018) Johnson Co. (GOLDENHERSH) Affirmed.

Illinois Appellate Court / Civil

Child Support  |  2d Dist.

In re Marriage of Benink, 2018 IL App (2d) 170175 (February 3, 2018) Winnebago Co. (SCHOSTOK) Affirmed as modified in part and reversed in part; remanded with directions.

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