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Mar 29, 2023

IICLE Family Law Flash Points - March 2023

Posted By: Donald Schiller
In In re J.M., 2023 IL App (4th) 220537, a factually complex case, a same-sex female couple used the sperm of …
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Mar 15, 2023

During the past few years, family law practitioners have noticed significant shifts in matrimonial, divorce, and parenta…
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Mar 6, 2023

Donald Schiller Retires From Frontline Of Divorce Practice

Donald C. Schiller, co-founder of Schiller DuCanto & Fleck LLP, retired from “active practice” effecti…
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Feb 28, 2023

IICLE Family Law Flash Points - February 2023

Posted By: Donald Schiller
The trial court granted the husband’s motion to bar the wife from presenting evidence pertaining to her alleged m…
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Jan 30, 2023

IICLE Family Law Flash Points - January 2023

Posted By: Donald Schiller
In In re Marriage of Patel, 2022 IL App (1st) 211650, the husband appealed the trial court’s order escr…
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Dec 29, 2022

Top Ten Family Law Flash Points of 2022

Posted By: Donald Schiller
In In re Marriage of Dynako, 2021 IL 126835, 186 N.E.3d 393, 452 Ill.Dec. 669, the husband appealed the trial …
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Dec 5, 2022

All In The Family

Posted By: Michele Jochner
No area of the law was untouched by the pandemic, but perhaps none was affected more—for better or worse—b…
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Nov 28, 2022

IICLE Family Law Flash Points - November 2022

Posted By: Donald Schiller
In Sadler v. Pulliam, 2022 IL App (5th) 220213, the father filed a petition to establish parentage and for par…
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Oct 24, 2022

The Write Stuff

Posted By: Michele M. Jochner
A series of pointers for making your legal writing clear, concise and—crucially—persuasive.
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Oct 3, 2022

Meighan Harmon Featured In "Power Women" Issue Of Sheridan Road Magazine

Meighan A. Harmon is the Managing Partner of Schiller DuCanto & Fleck, LLP, an Illinois firm with a nationally recog…
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Aug 24, 2022

Schiller DuCanto & Fleck Featured in Forbes and Fortune

Chicago's most successful people turn to Schiller DuCanto & Fleck to navigate the challenges of divorce and other fa…
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Aug 15, 2022

IICLE Family Law Flash Points - August 2022

Posted By: Donald Schiller
In McNulty v. McNulty, 2022 IL App (1st) 201239, a son with power of attorney over his elderly father filed an…
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Jul 18, 2022

IICLE Family Law Flash Points - July 2022

Posted By: Donald Schiller
In In re Marriage of Trapkus, 2022 IL App (3d) 190631, a postjudgment matter, the father requested a modificat…
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Jun 15, 2022

Here, There, And Everywhere

"The art of acting," said the great Sir Ralph Richardson, "consists in keeping people from coughing." Wh…
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