Child Custody in Illinois: A Complete Guide for Parents
This guide covers the basics of child custody in Illinois, including how to file, enforcing and modifying agreements, and grandparents’ rights.
Understanding Paternity Testing: What It Accomplishes and Its Limitations
The Legal and Financial Significance of Paternity Testing “Mother’s baby, father’s maybe” is a phrase often referred to at the beginning of many parentage cases. Paternity testing plays a crucial role in determining the biological father of a child, carrying significant legal and financial implications. Establishing paternity legally obligates the father to provide financial support, […]
De-Establishing Paternity in Illinois
In most cases, biological parents are ordered to pay child support to help provide for expenses related to raising their children. There is, however, a strange and little known about law regarding child custody and support that could enforce a man to pay child support for a child that is not biologically his. That law, along with […]
Defining Parental Alienation After Divorce
With technology infiltrating every aspect of modern society and a tendency for people to choose screens over traditional interaction, the idea of social alienation is one oft-discussed by sociologists and psychologist alike. Yet one of the oldest—and arguably most effecting—types of alienation is one perpetuated not by societal trends, but the oldest relationship in history: […]
Advice for Divorced Dads
Being a divorced parent can be a difficult role for any adult. Not only does he or she have to deal with the fallout of the failure of marriage and partnership, divorced parents who are the non-custodial parent may also deal with the loss of regular contact with children. Illinois awards custody to whomever the court deems as the […]