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 Supreme Court / Civil

    Civil Unions  |  5th Dist.
    Sharpe v. Westmoreland, 2020 IL 124863 (September 24, 2020) Madison Co. (GARMAN) Certified questions answered; reversed and remanded.

  • Illinois Appellate Court / Civil

    Maintenance  |  1st Dist.
    In re Marriage of Dea, 2020 IL App (1st) 190234 (September 18, 2020) Cook Co., 5th Div. (CUNNINGHAM) Affirmed.

  • Illinois Appellate Court / Civil

    Appellate Jurisdiction  |  1st Dist.
    In re Marriage of Gabriel, 2020 IL App (1st) 191840 (August 20, 2020) Cook Co., 4th Div. (LAMPKIN) Appeal dismissed.

  • Illinois Appellate Court / Civil

    Child Support  |  2d Dist.
    In re Marriage of Solecki, 2020 IL App (2d) 190381 (August 13, 2020) Du Page Co. (BIRKETT) Affirmed as modified.

  • Illinois Appellate Court / Civil

    Maintenance  |  3d Dist.
    In re Marriage of Burdess, 2020 IL App (3d) 190342 (July 8, 2020) Peoria Co. (O'BRIEN) Affirmed.

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