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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 Kuper, 2019 IL App (3d) 180094 (April 17, 2019) LaSalle Co. (O'BRIEN) Affirmed in part and reversed in part; remanded.

Illinois Appellate Court / Civil

Dissolution of Marriage  |  2d Dist.

In re Marriage of Peck, 2019 IL App (2d) 180598 (April 16, 2019) McHenry Co. (BURKE) Affirmed.

Illinois Appellate Court / Civil

Contempt  |  1st Dist.

In re Marriage of Pavlovich, 2019 IL App (1st) 172859 (April 16, 2019) Cook Co., 2d Div, (PUCINSKI) Affirmed (No. 1-17-2859); reversed (No. 1-18-0185).

Illinois Appellate Court / Civil

Dissolution of Marriage  |  3d Dist.

Davis v. Davis, 2019 IL App (3d) 170744 (April 11, 2019) Tazewell Co. (O'BRIEN) Affirmed in part and reversed in part; remanded.

Illinois Appellate Court / Civil

Visitation  |  5th Dist.

Sharpe v. Westmoreland, 2019 IL App (5th) 170321 (April 11, 2019) Madison Co. (CATES) Reversed and remanded.

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