Successful Divorce Mediation
Divorce mediation, an alternative to traditional divorce proceedings, is a means to resolve the complex issues of a divorce. Mediation involves the services of a trained and neutral person who works...
View ArticleContracts with Minors are Voidable
In general, individuals must possess the requisite "legal capacity" to enter into a valid and binding contract. Contract law regards such legal capacity as the capability of understanding the nature...
View ArticleDivorced Parents' Rights in the Religious Upbringing of Their Children
Parents have a constitutionally protected fundamental right in the care, custody and control of their children. This constitutional guarantee includes the parents' right and freedom to expose their...
View ArticleAcquiring U.S. Citizenship at Birth When only One Unmarried Parent is a...
Children born out of wedlock outside the United States to one citizen parent and one noncitizen parent face different requirements for acquiring U.S. citizenship, depending on the gender of the citizen...
View ArticleAgency Adoption vs. Independent Adoption
Adoption is the process by which an adult becomes the legal parent of an individual who is not their biological child. A finalized adoption severs all legal ties between the child and the natural...
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About The Firm
Since 1974 Alan Pearlman, Ltd. has been helping the people of Chicagoland and Lake County with their family law problems. From that time to the present Mr. Pearlman has focused on Family Law matters....
View ArticleEstablishing Rights and Obligations of Unmarried Couples
The number of couples living together without choosing to get married has more than tripled in the past two decades. Unless the cohabiting couple lives in a state which recognizes common law...
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Chicago Family Law Blog Receives Honors
Chicago Family Law Blog today received honors as a Top Divorce/Family Law Blog. It is with great pleasure and humility that we are happy to have achieved this honor for the 2009-2010 year and hope that...
View ArticlePermitting Posthumously Conceived Children to Inherit From a Deceased Parent
Several states refer to children who are born or adopted after the execution of a parent's will and omitted from the provisions of the testamentary instrument as "omitted" or "pretermitted" children....
View ArticleTax Issues Associated with Division of Pension Benefits in a Divorce
An increasingly large portion of the assets of married couples consist of rights to payments and stock from pension plans. In many states such assets are subject to division during a divorce....
View ArticleSame-Sex Marriages and the Federal Defense of Marriage Act
The federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) was signed into law by President Clinton on September 21, 1996. DOMA defines "marriage" to consist exclusively as a heterosexual union of a man and a woman....
View ArticleQualified Domestic Relations Orders and Divorce Settlements
It has been estimated that more than one half of all first marriages end in divorce; the number of failed marriages is even higher for second marriages. One major issue in most divorces is the division...
View ArticleMarital Settlement Agreements and Life Insurance Policies
Many marital settlement agreements require one party to maintain a life insurance policy on his or her life naming the former spouse as the primary beneficiary. While this provides some financial...
View ArticleSevering the Parental Rights of Inmates and the Constitutionality of...
According to the Child Welfare League of America, an estimated 200,000 children have a mother in prison, and at least 1.6 million children have a father in prison. As such, many children have been...
View ArticleTax Issues Relating to Qualified Domestic Relations Orders and Divorce
An increasingly large portion of the assets of married couples consist of rights to payments and stock from pension plans. In many states such assets are subject to division during a divorce. Divorce...
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