Divorce matters are serious concerns that can significantly affect your parental rights, your financial rights, and your post-divorce future. Although divorce is a stressful transition, it is important to put the time and effort necessary into obtaining terms that protect your rights and support you and your children’s best interests. One of the most important steps you can take if you are facing a divorce is consulting with an experienced divorce lawyer in Elmhurst today.
If your divorce involves shared children, one of the primary terms you’ll need to negotiate is parenting matters, which include:
The court decisions about parenting time and parental responsibility are always guided by what it considers to be in the children’s best interests.
In the State of Illinois, marital property refers to the assets collected over the course of the marriage, which are to be divided equitably – or fairly – in the event of a divorce. Those assets that either of you brought into your marriage with you (and kept separate) remain separate property, but the separate nature of assets can easily blur over years of marriage. Further, determining what is a fair division of marital property – given the specifics of your marriage and divorce – can be exceptionally complicated.
Spousal maintenance (or alimony) is generally ordered when one spouse will experience a financial deficit post-divorce and the other spouse has the funds available to help mitigate this deficit. Maintenance doesn’t play a role in every divorce, but when deemed appropriate, it can serve an important purpose. Wide-ranging factors go into the determination of maintenance, including the length of the marriage and each spouse’s earning potential.
Both parents remain responsible for supporting their children post-divorce, and child support is the state’s way of ensuring this responsibility is balanced between both parents. Because this balance is relative to each parent’s ability to pay, the higher earner typically pays child support to the other parent (even if both parents’ parenting time schedules are fairly even). Child support is calculated in accordance with state guidelines.
If you find yourself considering divorce – or preparing for divorce – Cameron H. Goodman at Goodman Law Firm in Elmhurst is a practiced divorce lawyer who is proud to provide skilled legal representation to clients like you. For more information about how we can help you, please don’t wait to contact us today.
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