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Learning More About Unpaid Child Support By M. Scott Gordon When we talk about child support, we often focus on ways of ensuring that non-custodial spouses make the child support payments that a court has required of them. We focus less often, it seems, on the striking amount of child support that goes unpaid in […]

Spousal Maintenance in Illinois for High Net Worth Couples By M. Scott Gordon Many Chicago area residents have heard about the new guidelines in Illinois when it comes to spousal maintenance (or alimony) payments. As an article from the Illinois State Bar Association explains, the new law P.A. 98-0961 resulted in changes to the Illinois […]

Child Support Collections and the Legal Consequences of Failing to Pay By: M. Scott Gordon Continued Problems with County Child Support Collections Funding in Illinois Child support collections are currently a hot topic in the Chicago area and, indeed, throughout the state of Illinois. For example, a recent report from WGN TV News emphasized that […]

Entering Into a Civil Union to Avoid the Marriage Tax Penalty By: M. Scott Gordon Prior to the legalization of same-sex marriage in Chicago and across Illinois and the country, civil unions provided same-sex couples with the ability to have many of the legal rights and obligations associated with marriage. Indeed, under the Illinois Religious […]