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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 […]

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 […]