http://www.chicago-child-visitation-lawyer.com/blog Chicago Child Visitation Lawyers and Attourneys Sat, 12 Jan 2008 16:56:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Even if a court meets jurisdictional criteria, it may decline to exercise its jurisdiction, and it must in some cases if it finds that it is an inconvenient forum for making such determinations under the circumstances of the case and that a court of another state is a more appropriate ... http://www.chicago-child-visitation-lawyer.com/blog/?p=89                                                   Atty. No.   IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS  MUNICIPAL DEPARTMENT - SECOND DISTRICT                                                        Z AN ILLINOIS                   CORPORATION,                                      Plaintiff,       v.                                 No.  2002  TAMMY    Defendant.         AFFIDAVIT REGARDING ATTORNEY'S FEES I, Attorney of Record, being duly sworn on oath, having personal knowledge of the relevant herein, and if called as a witness would competently testify as follows: 1. That Affiants are attorneys, ... http://www.chicago-child-visitation-lawyer.com/blog/?p=88 Gift  The circuit court’s conclusion that the bracelet given to petitioner by respondent’s mother, who carried insurance on it, belonged to the petitioner was contrary to the manifest weight of the evidence; therefore, bracelet was not included in marital property.  In re Simmons  The trial court erred in awarding gold cross to ... http://www.chicago-child-visitation-lawyer.com/blog/?p=87  The court abused its discretion in dividing military pension by failing to comply with § 401(b) of the Marriage Act (750 ILCS 5/401(b)) to preserve jurisdiction for the distribution of military pension benefits.  In re Burkhart  Military pensions may be treated as marital property under Illinois law and are subject to ... http://www.chicago-child-visitation-lawyer.com/blog/?p=86 Purpose of Requests for Admission  Under Supreme Court Rule 216, a party can serve on any other party a written request for the admission of the truth of any fact or the genuineness of any document.  While the scope of a request is limited only by the imagination of the trial ... http://www.chicago-child-visitation-lawyer.com/blog/?p=85 The tiral court did not abuse its discretion by requiring father to pay the medical expenses of children to the extent those expenses were covered by his insurance. Imes v. Imes.  The trial court did not abuse its discretion by setting the child support payments of father at $25 per week ... http://www.chicago-child-visitation-lawyer.com/blog/?p=84  Where there was no support in the record for the belief that the trial court’s decision on child support payments should be affected by defendant’s foster children, as he had no financial responsibility for them because they were provided for by the state, defendant’s foster children should not have been ... http://www.chicago-child-visitation-lawyer.com/blog/?p=83  Money loaned by the wife to her husband’s corporation was a gift rather than a loan since the wife testified that she considered that transfer of funds a loan, but there was conflicting testimony as to whether she had ever discussed with the husband the matter of repayment, and she ... http://www.chicago-child-visitation-lawyer.com/blog/?p=82  Because the parties stood in a relation of trust and confidence, appellant had the burden of showing the justness and fairness of his dealings with wife’s stocks.  Wesselhoeft v. Wesselhoeft  Despite husband’s denial of donative intent and his continued control of property he purchased, he failed to rebut the presumption that ... http://www.chicago-child-visitation-lawyer.com/blog/?p=81 Lack of Personal Jurisdiction  Wife could bring an action under a prior similar provision for the determination of equities in property and of alimony and attorney fees where the marital status had been determined by a valid ex parte foreign decree, but such latter court was without personal jurisdiction to determine ... http://www.chicago-child-visitation-lawyer.com/blog/?p=80