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Overview Former client Monica Ramos challenged a circuit court judgment entered on a matrimonial fee arbitration award in favor of her former counsel, Beck & Houlihan, P.C., arguing she was entitl...
Overview The Fourth District affirmed the denial of a father's motion to vacate a default two-year plenary order of protection entered when he failed to appear. The court held the denial was not an ab...
Overview Brandon Moore appealed pro se from an indirect civil contempt finding for nonpayment of child support and child-related expenses, which allowed him to purge by paying $1,000 by a set date, wi...
Overview In this Du Page County parentage case, the Third District affirmed the circuit court's allocation of joint significant decision-making and equal parenting time over the mother's objection, bu...
Overview Pro se father Paul S. appealed an order permitting the mother, Amber C., to relocate with the parties' five-year-old son from Norridge to McCullom Lake, to modify parenting time from a 50/50 ...
Overview The Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services sought child support from Daniel Badea on behalf of the child's mother, Shaina Matos. After Badea failed to appear at the support hea...
Overview The Fifth District affirmed a two-year plenary order of protection entered against respondent Briggette Hammonds protecting petitioner Jasmine McWherter and Hammonds's minor daughter, Raina B...
Overview In this second appeal, the Fifth District affirmed the circuit court's orders, entered on remand with supporting factual findings, denying the mother's petition to relocate with the parties' ...
Overview Petitioner sought to collect child support more than eleven years after a 2013 dissolution judgment ordered respondent to pay 28% of his net income. The circuit court denied the motion, citin...
Overview The Illinois Supreme Court resolved a district split over section 610.5 of the Illinois Marriage and Dissolution of Marriage Act, holding that a motion seeking to modify parenting time only i...
Overview In this pro se appeal from a Cook County dissolution case, the appellate court affirmed the circuit court's July 25, 2025 order vacating an emergency order of protection obtained by the wife,...
Overview In this expedited pro se appeal, the Fifth District affirmed a St. Clair County judgment granting the father a multi-family child support adjustment, an alternating-year tax exemption, and eq...
Overview In this parentage and child support action, the respondent father attempted—13 years after entry of a parentage judgment—to void all prior orders because the original summons was never served...
Overview In this second appeal from the same dissolution, the Fifth District held that the Union County circuit court failed to follow the mandate of In re Marriage of Grant , 2023 IL App (5th) 220291...
Overview The Second District held that withdrawals of principal from a self-funded IRA received as marital property are not "income" for support purposes—only the interest/appreciation component is—ex...
Overview On a second appeal, the Fifth District held that the circuit court failed to comply with the mandate in In re Marriage of Grant , 2023 IL App (5th) 220291-U, by again dividing the marital est...
Overview In In re Marriage of Barrientos De Vasquez v. Vasquez Argueta , 2026 IL App (1st) 251730-U, the First District affirmed the circuit court's dissolution and allocation judgments following a be...
Overview In In re Marriage of August , the Second District held that the trial court lost jurisdiction over a dissolution action 30 days after entering a 2022 judgment declaring the marriage invalid a...
Overview In In re Marriage of Saul , 2026 IL App (5th) 250503-U, the Fifth District affirmed the denial of a former husband's section 2-1401 petition seeking to vacate or terminate a maintenance in gr...
Overview The First District dismissed a self-represented husband's appeal for lack of appellate jurisdiction. His attempt to appeal the September 13, 2024 dissolution judgment came far outside the 30-...
Overview In In re Marriage of Howard , 2026 IL App (1st) 252439, the First District affirmed a default dissolution judgment entered after the husband was defaulted as a discovery sanction under Illino...
Overview In In re Marriage of Kenney , 2026 IL App (1st) 252578-U, the First District affirmed a Cook County order requiring the ex-husband to pay $24,183.51 in appellate attorney fees and costs incur...
Overview In this consolidated appeal, the Fourth District affirmed a McLean County judgment allocating the majority of parenting time and nearly all decision-making responsibilities to the father and ...
Overview In this Rule 23 order, the Fourth District affirmed a Peoria County property-division judgment awarding the husband only $8,771 — half the appreciation during the marriage — in a jointly titl...
Overview In In re Marriage of Hoffmeister and Procaccio , the Second District affirmed a Lake County order reducing the father's parenting time to supervised visits (one weeknight and alternating Satu...
Overview In In re Marriage of Jennings , 2026 IL App (5th) 250188-U, the Fifth District affirmed the circuit court's classification of real estate held by the husband's holding company as marital prop...
Overview In this Rule 23 order, the Fourth District affirmed a Rock Island County judgment reallocating parental responsibilities between divorced parents of two boys. The court held the reduction of ...
Overview In this parentage and allocation-of-parental-responsibilities case, the First District held that the trial court improperly denied petitioner's motion for substitution of judge as of right un...
Overview In In re Marriage of Nitsche , the Second District held that section 3 of the Illinois Uniform Premarital Agreement Act does not require a party to produce a fully executed original or copy b...
Overview In In re Marriage of Knerrer , the Fifth District affirmed a circuit court judgment awarding the father sole decision-making authority and the majority of parenting time, an unequal but equit...
Overview In In re Marriage of Aguilar , 2026 IL App (1st) 250495-U, the First District affirmed a Cook County order granting only $2,000 of a wife's $53,290.84 contribution petition under section 508 ...
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...
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