Cooperative and Collaborative Divorce processes are a potential alternative to reduce costs and in-court litigation on issues that must be settled in a divorce proceeding. If successful, these processes can make a divorce less stressful and more cost-effective. In this article, our Sangamon County Cooperative Divorce attorneys look at both types of these divorce processes and weigh the benefits and disadvantages of each.

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Mediation is an often undervalued method that can potentially solve issues related to family law outside of the court. In this article, our Sangamon County Cooperative divorce attorneys discuss typical family mediation practices and explain the Illinois mediation process. We discuss how mediation can help parties save time and money by having them come to a formal agreement on family related issues outside of the court.

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There are three factors that Sangamon County courts use to help determine whether to award spousal maintenance to a party in a divorce. Those include:

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

In this article by our Sangamon County Cooperative divorce attorneys, we explain how these are factored into the decision process for spousal maintenance.

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