Palatine Family Law Attorney

Family law is a broad area of the law that addresses those important legal concerns that affect families. Because these concerns typically affect your parental and/or your financial rights, you’re well advised to have an experienced Palatine family law attorney in your corner. 

Common Family Law Concerns

Some of the most common concerns that are addressed by family law include:

• Divorce concerns
• Alimony and spousal maintenance
• Child custody and parenting time issues, including mothers’ rights, fathers’ rights, parental choices and child custody, and relocation for career opportunities
• Child support
• Contempt of court and enforcement
• Family law mediation
• Paternity
• Post-decree modifications, including child support modifications and spousal maintenance modifications

If your concern involves your rights as a parent and/or your post-divorce financials, it is an important matter that a dedicated family law attorney can help you with. These rights are too important to leave to chance. 

Your Parental Rights

Family law addresses your parental rights directly. In Illinois, the basics include that child custody is divided into legal custody, which is called parental responsibilities and revolves around who will be making important decisions on behalf of your children, and physical custody, which revolves around how you and your ex will divide your time with the children. Either can be sole or joint, but it is very rare for a parent to be denied at least some form of visitation with his or her children (barring a compelling reason to rule otherwise). When the court addresses matters that relate to children, it always makes decisions that are based on what it deems are the best interests of those children. 

Your Financial Rights

Matters related to your finances, such as the division of your marital property, child support payments, and alimony are also addressed by family law. Consider the following:

• In Illinois, that property that you acquire over the course of your marriage is considered marital property, which must be divided fairly in relation to the circumstances involved in the event of a divorce. That property that you bring into the marriage with you and are able to keep separate throughout will remain your own private property. 
• Child support is calculated in accordance with state guidelines, and it is the state’s mechanism for helping to ensure that both parents uphold their financial responsibility to support their children.
• Alimony is a payment system that is implemented in those situations in which one spouse experiences a financial setback upon divorce and the other has the financial means to help right it. Alimony is generally intended to help the financially disadvantaged spouse find better financial footing through further education, work experience, and/or the acquisition of job skills. 

Don’t Wait to Consult with an Experienced Palatine Family Law Attorney

If you have a family law concern, the trusted Palatine family law attorneys at SAM LAW OFFICE, LLC, have the legal skill, impressive experience, and drive to help. We’re on your side, so please do not hesitate to contact us today.