If you have been charged with a criminal offense, the Sixth Amendment of the United States Constitution provides that you are entitled to the assistance of counsel for your defense. If you can’t afford a private atto...
Divorce is way up on the list of life’s greatest stressors, and every divorce is unique. Financial situations, personal property and circumstances differ, and children may be involved. Some couples can come to an agree...
If you’ve been arrested on a drunk driving charge and failed a standardized field sobriety test, all is not lost. The standardized battery of field sobriety tests which aim to effectively spot possible DUI violators in...
Local police make most drug arrests, but all drug offenses are considered both a state and a federal crime. Therefore, anyone arrested for a drug offense can wind up in the federal system. Federal penalties are usual...
Human trafficking is a form of modern slavery. It involves recruiting, harboring, moving or obtaining a person, by force, fraud or coercion, for the purposes of involuntary servitude, debt bondage or sexual exploitatio...
What’s in a name? When it comes to child custody, terminology can make a vast difference in how a parent is viewed by the child, the spouse, and society at large. When the courts say that one parent has “custody”...
Child custody disputes are devastating for divorcing spouses and their children. If you are fighting and having trouble coming to an agreement with your divorcing spouse, the courts may appoint a “guardian ad litem...
No Illinois couple gets married with the expectation that they may someday get divorced. Because it is difficult to consider the possibility of a divorce before the wedding has even occurred, many couples fail to consid...
One of the hardest adjustments for children after divorce is learning to live with one parent instead of both parents at the same time. Children are resilient, but they also feel these changes deeply, and Illinois paren...
Divorce brings about significant changes for every member of the family, particularly the children. Even when Illinois parents work very hard to establish a parenting plan that suits the needs of the family and best int...