Family Law

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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

    Child Custody  |  2d Dist.
    In re Marriage of Levites, 2021 IL App (2d) 200552 (March 3, 2021) Lake Co. (BIRKETT) Affirmed.

  • Illinois Appellate Court / Civil

    Attorney-Client Privilege  |  3d Dist.
    In re Marriage of Stinauer, 2021 IL App (3d) 190692 (February 16, 2021) Fulton Co. (LYTTON) Reversed and remanded.

  • Illinois Appellate Court / Civil

    Dissolution of Marriage  |  1st Dist.
    In re Marriage of Potenza, 2020 IL App (1st) 192454 (December 31, 2020) Cook Co., 1st Div. (WALKER) Affirmed in part, vacated in part, and reversed in part; remanded.

  • Illinois Appellate Court / Civil

    Maintenance  |  2d Dist.
    In re Marriage of Wig, 2020 IL App (2d) 190929 (December 29, 2020) Du Page Co. (SCHOSTOK) Affirmed.

  • Illinois Appellate Court / Civil

    Maintenance  |  1st Dist.
    In re Marriage of Dynako, 2020 IL App (1st) 192116 (December 3, 2020) Cook Co., 4th Div. (GORDON) Affirmed.

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