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Overview In In re Marriage of Ballinger , 2026 IL App (5th) 250139-U, the Fifth District affirmed a Shelby County judgment awarding the wife $2,053.17 per month in maintenance for 38 years, a near-equ...
Overview In re Marriage of Wilson , 2026 IL App (4th) 260124-U, reversed a trial court's refusal to hold a father in indirect civil contempt for failing to pay his 60% share of expenses for purchasing...
Overview The Third District reversed in part the circuit court's postdissolution allocation of marital home sale proceeds in In re Marriage of Amaya , 2026 IL App (3d) 250429-U. The court held that th...
Overview The First District affirmed a trial court order granting father temporary relocation of the parties' minor child to Washington State, where mother repeatedly violated court orders prohibiting...
Overview The Second District affirmed the trial court's order voiding a 1986 prenuptial agreement, the award of $4,410/month in indefinite maintenance to the wife, and the classification of certain pr...
Overview In re Marriage of Tate , 2026 IL App (5th) 260228-U, affirmed the circuit court's allocation of majority parenting time to the mother over two minor children. The appellate court conducted a ...
Overview The Third District affirmed the dismissal of respondent Amy Itoku's motion to modify maintenance, holding that she failed to plead facts constituting a substantial change in circumstances und...
Overview Pro se appellant Christina B., the maternal grandmother and legal guardian of minor Cali F., appealed the circuit court's denial of her petition for rule to show cause against the child's fat...
Overview In In re Marriage of Raine , 2026 IL App (3d) 250121 , the Third District affirmed a turnover order requiring funds held in the respondent's Jackson National Life variable annuity to be trans...
Overview The Second District affirmed the Lake County circuit court's denial of a mother's motions for forum non conveniens transfer to Colombia and her petition to enroll a Colombian custody order. T...
Overview In In re Marriage of Thomas, 2026 IL App (1st) 242491 , the First District modified the trial court's equal division of marital property (a CTA pension and home equity) to a two-thirds/one-th...
Overview The Fourth District affirmed the trial court's equal (50/50) division of marital property in an 18-year marriage where the wife had multiple sclerosis, received only $463/month in SSDI, and a...
Overview The Second District affirmed the Lake County circuit court's denial of a mother's motions to transfer custody proceedings to Colombia on forum non conveniens grounds and her petition to enrol...
Overview This consolidated appeal in In re Parentage of A.L.G., 2026 IL App (3d) 250124 , involves three appeals arising from a protracted parentage dispute in Du Page County. The Third District rever...
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...
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