The Trial Court entered a judgment of dissolution. It awarded permanent maintenance to the wife. The wife had spent several years raising their daughter rather than pursuing a career. The Trial Court ordered the husband to pay half of the daughter's private high school tuition. The husband argued that he should pay less than half [...]
Ex-husband filed a petition to terminate maintenance. He alleged that his former spouse of 17 years was cohabitating with her boyfriend. The Court denied his petition. It stated that his ex-wife was not in a resident, continuing conjugal relationship. She was in an intimate dating relationship. It did not have the permanence of a de [...]
The Trial Court initially awarded the wife $6,000 per month for maintenance. And $6,000 per month for child support for a single minor child. Husband earned $550,000 annually. The Trial Court then reconsidered the awards. It then ordered $15,000 maintenance and no child support. Should the maintenance terminate while the child remains unemancipated, then [...]
The Trial Court denied ex-husband's petition to modify or terminate maintenance. It granted ex-wife's motion to modify maintenance. It calculated maintenance to wife based on the amended guidelines. The parties’ divorce had taken place before the new guidelines were in effect. The Trial Court increased ex-husband's obligation based on its calculation of his income. Husband [...]
The Trial Court entered an order extending husband's maintenance obligation. Husband appealed. The original divorce order had provided that wife was to receive maintenance for a period of two years. She was authorized to seek an extension of maintenance before the two-year period expired. The Appellate Court agreed with the Trial Court. It said that [...]
Wife was not entitled to rehabilitative maintenance. She had been cohabiting with another man on a continuing, conjugal basis. There had been no subsequent reconciliation with her husband. “Unless otherwise agreed by the parties in a written agreement set forth in the judgment or otherwise approved by the court, the obligation to pay future maintenance [...]
The term bigamy is defined as getting married to one person while legally married to another person. In Illinois, committing bigamy is a Class 4 felony. If a person is found guilty of this crime, he or she can be sentenced to up to three years in prison. That takes care of the criminal part. [...]
The parties returned to court 61 months after the divorce. Wife had received maintenance for five years. The court needed to conduct a general review of maintenance. This had been provided for in the divorce decree. The Court reduced the unallocated maintenance. This is a combined payment of child support and maintenance. But, wife's standard [...]
A public school teacher filed for dissolution of marriage. Her husband was a disabled pharmacist. They had been married for 37 years. The trial court divided the property of the parties between them. It awarded each party a one-half interest in wife’s pension from the Teachers’ Retirement System (TRS). It denied wife maintenance. Wife appealed. [...]
The new maintenance statute came into effect in Illinois January 1, 2016. The parties divorced a number of years earlier. They went back to court after their divorce. The issue was modification of maintenance. Husband claimed that he was losing his job. He intended to retire. He argued that there was a substantial change of [...]