More than two years after filing for divorce, the battle between Denise Richards and Charlie Sheen has only become more bitter. Richards, 37, and Sheen, 42, have been fighting over the custody of their daughters, Lola, 2, and Sam, 3, since April 2006. Sometimes they praise each other’s parenting to the press. Other times they [...]

The image of fathers and fatherhood has taken a beating over the past several decades, and the media has been part of the problem. While there has been some improvement in the past few years, fathers are still frequently unfairly stereotyped. For example, in April the Council on Contemporary Families issued a report on [...]

Divorce can be very frustrating, especially for a child. Both parties, the husband and wife, will really fight for the properties and also the custody for their child. They want to be able to get the proper compensation after the divorce. However, the most important thing when settling a divorce is not always the money [...]

Do you remember the famous line about divorce from the popular advice columnist Ann Landers? She advised that the benchmark for getting a divorce or not was answering the question “Am I better off with our without this person?” You could also interpret that as….would I be happier if I was divorced?  [...]

For this, if you are getting a divorce, you need a divorce lawyer to properly present your case to the family court. You need to show the court that you have done nothing in your relationship that caused both of you to divorce and also, when getting the child’s custody, you need to be able [...]

The state’s chief public defender is asking judges to order the state Finance and Administration Cabinet to pay for private lawyers for some poor criminal defendants because his agency can no longer afford to represent them. In a letter to judges released Wednesday, public advocate Ernie Lewis warned that public defenders will begin refusing [...]

Now attorney Jeffery Luckett faces possible disbarment for allegedly overbilling Cook County for defending poor people in juvenile and child protection cases. Luckett said he worked more than 20 hours a day on 88 separate dates, according to a complaint filed by the Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission. He claimed he worked a total [...]

Jon Theophile Jr. divorced his wife last year and has been paying child support since the separation. “I want to help take care of my children and have done so very consistently in the past,” he said in a letter to the court requesting his monthly support be reduced because he was let go [...]

A deputy sheriff who pulled his handgun instead of his Taser cannot be sued by the man he shot, a federal judge has ruled. Given the minimal training Deputy Robert Purnell received, there was nothing to indicate that his mistake “was anything other than an honest one,” Judge J. Frederick Motz wrote. Since Purnell’s actions were [...]

If you are going to cash in, pay up. That’s the message Superior Court Presiding Justice Joseph F. Rodgers Jr. is conveying to those who owe child support but want to cash in future payments due from the settlement of personal-injury lawsuits. Rodgers began handling all of the so-called structured settlement cases earlier this [...]