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Parenting Time Plans and Summer Vacation By: M. Scott Gordon For many Chicago families, the end of the academic school year is right around the corner. As such, children and teens will be on summer break, which can be a complicated time for divorced parents. You might recall that, under the revised Illinois Marriage and […]

When we look at the types and number of people getting divorced in Chicago today, are those trends the same as they were twenty or thirty years ago? According to a recent article in The Washington Post, many of us have heard the “myth” that “about half of all marriages end in divorces,” but that […]

For a long time, there was a general presumption in society that mothers tend to be awarded physical custody of their children because they tend to be the ones who stayed at home to raise the kids during the marriage. However, times have changed, and it is important to think about how issues of child […]

Spousal Maintenance and Your Taxes By: M. Scott Gordon If you pay spousal maintenance (also commonly known as alimony), how does this affect your taxes? Under new Illinois divorce statute (effective January 1, 2016) (Public Act 09-0961), courts in Chicago and throughout Illinois now follow a formula for determining spousal maintenance if a couple’s combined […]