Divorce

Your best alternative to a negotiated agreement (BATNA) in a divorce is the likely outcome of a trial. If you don’t have a realistic sense of what a judge might decide, you’re negotiating without a baseline for comparison. That makes it harder to evaluate settlement...

One of my favorite judicial moments occurred during a hearing where a couple had continued living together for many months while their divorce was pending. When the judge learned they were still sharing the same home, he simply paused, raised an eyebrow, and said,...

For couples with young children, arguments about custody tend to be the biggest issue when they divorce. For those who do not have young children in the family home, property division is usually the issue that will be the biggest concern in an Illinois divorce. Those...

While navigating the divorce process, the couple must work through numerous negotiations and arrive at several compromises before moving forward to their exciting, new futures. Divorcing parents must devote a significant amount of time to developing the parenting...