The parties’ Marital Settlement Agreement (MSA) capped child support from Husband. He was to pay 28% of his net income up to $300,000. They agreed he would have no obligation to pay child support on income he received above $300,000. Wife later filed a Petition to Modify and Increase the Child Support. Husband filed a [...]
Court allowed the wife permission to move from Illinois to North Carolina with the parties' two minor children. Husband appealed the reduction of his visitation. He had wanted even more visitation with the children than he was now given. When the parties had divorced, the court awarded joint custody to the parties. Wife was the [...]
Husband was to pay financial support to wife for sixty months. It was to support both the wife and the parties' then-minor child. Payments were made for sixty months. Then wife asked the court to extend husband's maintenance obligation. After trial, the court ordered husband to pay permanent maintenance. And to pay retroactive maintenance dating [...]
The parties are in court for a hearing for a two year order of protection. The mother testified to two specific fact patterns that did not appear in her underlying petition. (1) that the father had pushed their son into a wall. And, (2) that the father hit their son in thehead with a cell [...]
There were allegations of abuse by their father, Jaime D. A 5-year-old boy, J.D., and his 2 sisters were placed in temporary custody of DCFS. A DNA test then showed that Jaime D. was not the boy’s father. Mother testified that a different man, Alejandro A., was the boy's father. Jaime D. had signed a [...]
The trial court held a hearing on the status of the discovery of this case. Plaintiffs stated that as of that date, the defendant had still not produced all of the requested documents. Defendant's counsel stated that his client was in good-faith compliance with the spirit of discovery. He complained that most of the documents [...]