Illinois Paternity Judgement Checklist
This checklist outlines important steps to take after the Court has entered the final Judgment in your paternity case. Completing these items helps ensure compliance with the court orders and secures your rights and responsibilities.
How Parent and Child Relationships are Established
Society is constantly changing, and family structures are changing as well. Hence, our law has had to adapt over time to establish exactly what the parent-child relationship is under the law, and how paternity can be determined. The paternity process can be a complex one, but there are some basic presumptions that are in play […]
Using the Putative Father Registry to Protect Parental Rights
Family law is complicated. This is particularly true when it comes to deciding who will have the rights and responsibilities associated with caring for children. Whether the issue is child custody after a divorce, determining paternity where a marriage never existed, or adoption, disputes over children can be extremely emotional and complicated. Here we explain […]
Paternity Time Limits
Questions of paternity are some of the most emotionally complicated questions handled by our judicial system. Paternity cases can involve mistrust, betrayal and heartbreak. It can be particularly difficult where a parent learns, after years of parenting, that he is not a child’s genetic parent. We understand that these cases can be very delicate and […]
Why it is Important to Establish Paternity
Most people are familiar with the concept of paternity, partly because at some point in time they have been channel surfing on television and have been lucky enough to catch an enthralling episode of the Jerry Springer show, on which the outcome of a paternity test is dramatically revealed. Although finding out the identity of […]
