Our Illinois family law attorneys have extensive experience in Collaborative Divorce, Cooperative Divorce, mediation, and traditional divorce. Collaborative Divorce and Cooperative Divorce have the potential to prevent in-court litigation of the issues that must be resolved during a divorce including asset division, maintenance awards, allocation of parenting time and responsibility, and child support payments.  If successful, this will make your divorce significantly more cost-effective.  It will prevent the stress that can arise from contentious litigation.  

Read the entire article by our Illinois family law attorneys on Collaborative and Cooperative Divorce

Our Illinois Cooperative divorce attorneys understand that your divorce may require you to bring spouses together and plan for your futures through family mediation.

Mediation is an undervalued tool to help solve family law related issues outside of court settings which allows parties to attempt to come to agreements on family related issues. This prevents the parties from having to litigate these issues in court and saves money on legal fees. In a family mediation, the parties to a divorce resolve  issues with the help of a professional mediator. As long as both sides are willing, this option is a preferred method that allows our Illinois family law attorneys the chance to save our clients money and time.

Family mediation can be used to resolve any of the following family law issues:

• Parental Time & Responsibility
• Child Support & Custody
• Spousal Maintenance

Start planning out your family mediation by reading the following article by our Illinois family law attorneys.

In this article, our Illinois family law attorneys discuss different factors that Illinois courts weigh in deciding whether to award spousal maintenance to another party in a divorce. Some of these factors include:

• Length of Marriage
• Sacrifices one spouse made for another
• Income of each spouse

These as well as other factors discussed by our Illinois divorce attorneys are a good resource to have at your disposal when trying to gain an understanding of the process courts use to determine time, duration, and amount of alimony or maintenance may be involved if a court were to decide the issue of maintenance, rather than the issue being decided through a collaborative divorce settlement.

Read the entire article on spousal maintenance by our Illinois divorce attorneys