Have you recently made the decision to get a divorce? Are you confused about how to proceed with your divorce? A Shelbyville divorce mediator explains 5 reasons why you may want to mediate your divorce. When it comes to divorce, you have two options: option one is to litigate your divorce and go to court, and option two is to …
How to Handle Make-up Time and Communication Issues During COVID Quarantine
Co-parenting after divorce is complicated at the best of times. With COVID quarantine problems over the last year, co-parenting has been become even more challenging. With so many people being sick and others doing everything they can to avoid spreading the contagion, regular parental visitation has become extremely difficult. This leads to communication issues between former spouses as well as …
Illinois Family Law: Termination of Spousal Support with Cohabitation
In Illinois, spousal maintenance obligations ends either: (1) automatically based on a date specified in the court order; (2) automatically upon remarriage; (3) when the recipient spouse begins cohabitating with a significant other, which requires the payor-spouse to ask the court; (4) automatically upon death unless a life insurance policy is to be paid to the recipient ex-spouse when the …