Posts By: MICHAEL C CRAVEN

Three Things to do During Your Divorce – Advice from A Chicago Divorce Lawyer

Tips for Divorce 1. Take Care of Yourself Divorce brings a lot of hurt feelings, anger, resentment, stress, and depression.  It is important to remember that you need to take care of yourself while you are going through all these feelings.  Find a support group, talk to your divorce lawyer, work out, stay in contact with positive people, and eat right.  All these actions may seem little in comparison to what you are going through, but they will help you cope with the divorce proc...   Read more ...  

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Is Divorce Looming? – Three Tips from a Divorce Lawyer

Tips for Divorce 1. Talk to a Divorce Attorney It is incredibly important you know your legal rights. Every situation is different, and you will need an experienced divorce lawyer to advise you how the law affects your particular circumstances. The law varies from state to state and is even applied differently throughout a state. If your case is in the Chicago land area it is preferable to seek out a Chicago divorce lawyer versus one from downstate and vice versa. There are many decisions to be...   Read more ...  

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Texting and Parenting: Are We Ignoring Our Kids?

Texting and Parenting Practicing Family Law in Chicago, and being a parent to teenagers myself, means that I am always on the look out for news stories on parents and their children. Not all my stories deal with divorce! The last few weeks I’ve stumbled across a few articles on the same topic: texting and parenting. However, it’s not what you think. Kids often get the bad rap for being attached to their phone, unable to make eye contact with their parents or look up at the dinner ta...   Read more ...  

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Grandparent’s Visitation Rights in Illinois

Grandparent Visitation Rights in Illinois Grandparent’s rights vary from state to state. In Illinois, the law attempts to balance the traditional deference to a parent’s right to make decisions regarding their children with the reality that in many family settings grandparents are taking on a more active role in rearing grandchildren, often out of necessity, many times due to divorce or death. While most relationships between grandparents and grandchildren are loving and supported by the p...   Read more ...  

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Grandparents Raising Grandchildren: View from a Chicago Divorce Lawyer

Grandparents Raising Grandchildren It used to be commonplace for multi-generational families to live together with all adults having a hands-on role in the rearing of children. Divorce was uncommon. In those idyllic days grandparents played a special, part-time role. Nowadays many grandparents have more involved roles and it’s usually because of a sad story, including divorce, which left no other choice. According to AARP, 31% of adults are grandparents.  8% of those grandparents are regular...   Read more ...  

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Life Insurance and Divorce in Chicago

Life Insurance and Divorce Today Brent Novoselsky , Financial Planner in Chicago, gives us his personal thoughts on life insurance during and after divorce:   As a financial planner in Chicago, I often have clients that ask about what happens to life insurance when you’re about to divorce? How do you deal fairly with a soon to-be ex-spouse, yet still make sure you have coverage for the future? Is there a way to provide for adult children of a previous marriage without going broke, es...   Read more ...  

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