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Overview In this post-dissolution dispute, petitioner Rebecca Crone sought turnover of photo albums and other personal property she claimed were allocated to her under the parties' marital settlement ...
Overview The Second District affirmed the trial court's dismissal of petitioner Hussain Salbi's section 2-1401 petitions to vacate a 2023 judgment of dissolution, finding he failed to plead due dilige...
Overview The Third District reversed and remanded the trial court's child support order in a dissolution case where a prenuptial agreement awarded the husband virtually the entire marital estate. The ...
Overview The Fifth District affirmed the circuit court's grant of a section 2-1401 petition vacating a 2012 judgment of dissolution that incorporated an MSA awarding the wife only 17.516% of an $11.3 ...
Overview In re Marriage of Jackson , 2026 IL App (1st) 250504-U (consolidated with 1-25-0506), is a Rule 23 order affirming a dissolution judgment in its entirety. The First District found that the pr...
Overview In re Marriage of Tyler W. v. Sarah W. (Janai P.) , 2026 IL App (4th) 251315-U, is a Rule 23 order in which the Fourth District affirmed the trial court's allocation of majority parenting tim...
Overview The Second District affirmed the trial court's declaratory judgment finding that petitioner Jennifer Oberweis was cohabiting with her boyfriend in a de facto marriage , triggering a maintenan...
Overview The Fifth District reviewed a judgment of dissolution in a 39-year marriage, addressing maintenance, allocation of student-loan debt, and division of a law-firm partnership interest. The cour...
Overview The Second District affirmed in full the trial court's 69-page judgment dissolving the 25-year marriage of Justin and Sandra Seyl, involving a marital estate exceeding $13 million. The court ...
Overview The Fifth District affirmed the circuit court's allocation of majority parenting time to Mother but reversed the court's grant of Mother's petition to relocate with the child from the Metro E...
Overview The Second District affirmed the trial court's allocation judgment granting joint decision-making and roughly 50/50 parenting time between Jacob C. and Allyssa T. for their daughter M.G.T. Th...
Overview The Second District dismissed a mother's appeal of a trial court order reallocating guardian ad litem (GAL) fees entirely to her, finding it lacked jurisdiction because at least two postjudgm...
Overview The Fifth District affirmed the trial court's denial of Kenneth Brosh's petitions to terminate or modify maintenance and child support, and affirmed the grant of Donna Brosh's petition to ext...
Overview In this consolidated post-dissolution appeal, petitioner Alan Buchman challenged seven circuit court orders involving contempt, fee awards, a parking space reimbursement, denial of his motion...
Overview The Second District affirmed trial court orders establishing parentage and allocating parental responsibilities where the respondent-mother relocated the parties' two children to Russia witho...
Overview In this consolidated appeal from Tazewell County, the Fourth District affirmed the trial court's dissolution judgment and contempt finding. The court held that Running Central remained respon...
Overview The Fourth District reversed a trial court's declaratory judgment that had found a premarital agreement's waiver of interest in a spouse's "property" and "estate" constituted a valid waiver o...
Overview The Third District affirmed the LaSalle County circuit court's judgment dissolving the second marriage of Juanita and Jesus Rios, upholding three rulings: (1) Jesus's FFSB bank account was pr...
Overview In re Marriage of Reyes , 2026 IL App (2d) 250333-U, reversed the trial court's involuntary dismissal of a dissolution petition, holding that a genuine issue of material fact existed as to wh...
Overview The Third District affirmed the trial court's orders restricting father's parenting time to three supervised hours per week and awarding mother sole decision-making responsibility in all four...
Overview The Fifth District affirmed the Jasper County circuit court's denial of both Tami's petition for indirect civil contempt (alleging Ryan failed to pay tuition, an accountant bill, and medical ...
Overview The Third District reversed in part a Du Page County circuit court's award of $4,000 in attorney fees under section 508(b) of the IMDMA , finding the court abused its discretion by reducing t...
Overview In re Marriage of Wong , 2026 IL App (3d) 250661-U, affirms the trial court's order granting the mother's petition to relocate two children (ages 10 and 14) from Illinois to Colorado and modi...
Overview In re Marriage of Luallen , 2026 IL App (3d) 250116-U, involves a dispute over health insurance reimbursement payments made pursuant to an agreed custody modification order. The Third Distric...
Overview The Second District affirmed the trial court's dismissal of a pro se mother's amended motion seeking modification of child support, child-related expenses, and indirect civil contempt, holdin...
Overview In re Marriage of Opas , 2026 IL App (1st) 242168-U (consolidated with 1-24-2526), is a Rule 23 order affirming the trial court's modification of parenting time and allocation of decision-mak...
Overview The First District affirmed the trial court's allocation of parenting time (majority to father) and sole decision-making authority to the father, finding no abuse of discretion. However, the ...
Overview In re Marriage of Field , 2026 IL App (5th) 240405-U, involves consolidated appeals from multiple postdissolution orders addressing attorney fees, sanctions, and child support true-up calcula...
Overview The Fifth District affirmed the Montgomery County circuit court's order granting primary parenting time of the parties' biological child (L.E.) to the father and awarding step-parent visitati...
Overview In re Marriage of Wolak , 2026 IL App (3d) 250263-U, affirmed a finding of indirect civil contempt against respondent Tom Dawidowski for failing to pay child support, medical insurance premiu...
Overview The Fourth District affirmed the trial court's modification of both maintenance and child support in a post-dissolution proceeding. The court held that the parties' MSA lacked sufficiently cl...
Overview The Second District affirmed a directed finding in favor of respondent-father on petitioner-mother's petition for contribution to their two daughters' postsecondary educational expenses under...
Overview The Fifth District affirmed the Madison County circuit court's order restricting a father's in-person parenting time under 750 ILCS 5/603.10 , finding the trial court's serious endangerment d...
Overview In this third appeal involving post-dissolution maintenance, the Second District affirmed the trial court's denial of respondent Jerry Bernay's petition to terminate $3,600/month permanent ma...
Overview In re Parentage of Am. P. and Au. P. , 2026 IL App (1st) 251607-U, affirmed the trial court's grant of a mother's petition to relocate with two minor children from Illinois to Florida. The ap...
Overview In this dissolution proceeding, respondent Miriam Noelle Jackson appealed pro se from orders finding her in indirect civil contempt for failing to pay her allocated share of guardian ad litem...
Overview The Illinois Appellate Court, First District, dismissed two consolidated appeals filed by respondent Brian Sexton in a dissolution proceeding. Appeal No. 1-24-1337 was dismissed for lack of a...
Overview This case involves a mother's appeal from the circuit court's denial of her petitions to restrict and modify the father's parenting time following a contentious post-decree history including ...
Overview The First District affirmed the trial court's judgment of dissolution, rejecting the husband's challenges to the imputation of $100,000 annual income and the distribution of marital assets. T...
Overview This Rule 23 order affirms the Du Page County circuit court's allocation of parenting time and decision-making authority in a dissolution proceeding. The appellate court upheld findings that ...
Overview This case addresses the classification of growth in a premarital profit sharing plan during marriage. The Second District affirmed the trial court's decision to characterize all growth in the...
Overview The Fifth District affirmed the trial court's denial of respondent Ryan Rensing's motion to vacate a default order entered against him in a post-dissolution proceeding concerning division of ...
Overview This Rule 23 order affirms a plenary order of protection entered in favor of the wife against the husband in a dissolution proceeding. The First District held that the trial court's finding o...
Overview This Rule 23 order from the Third District addresses property classification, dissipation, retroactive temporary support, and retirement account division in a dissolution proceeding. The appe...
Overview This Rule 23 order addresses multiple issues arising from a 27-year marriage dissolution. The Fifth District reversed the trial court's findings on property classification (Crawford Lane tran...
Overview The First District dismissed Margaret LaPorte's appeal from the denial of her section 2-1401 motion to vacate orders for lack of personal jurisdiction. The court found her appellate brief so ...
Overview This Rule 23 order affirms the trial court's judgment of dissolution following a 24-year marriage. The appellate court upheld the trial court's application of the parties' 1997 premarital agr...
Overview This Rule 23 order affirms the circuit court's denial of respondent Raizel Weiss's motion to compel arbitration in a dissolution proceeding. The appellate court found that Raizel waived her c...
Overview This Rule 23 order affirms the dismissal of both parties' dissolution petitions for lack of subject matter jurisdiction under 750 ILCS 5/401(a) . The court held that neither spouse satisfied ...
Overview This Illinois Supreme Court case addresses whether a 1992 marital settlement agreement requiring a veteran to pay his ex-wife a portion of his VA disability benefits is enforceable despite fe...
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In re Marriage of Eckert establishes that a substantial change in circumstances affecting the child's best interests is required to modify custody. The change must be significant enough to warrant revisiting the allocation of parental responsibilities.
Illinois courts treat cryptocurrency as marital property subject to equitable distribution under 750 ILCS 5/503. Valuation typically occurs at or near the date of distribution. Forensic analysis may be required to trace and value digital assets, especially if one spouse suspects hidden wallets.
Under 750 ILCS 5/504, maintenance is calculated as 33.33% of the payor's net income minus 25% of the payee's net income, capped so the payee receives no more than 40% of combined net income. Duration depends on the length of the marriage.
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