Illinois Divorce and Family Law
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Learn about divorce and family law in Illinois. Questions about child custody, division of property, or the divorce process? Find useful information here.
Looking for Illinois’s rules on marriage, divorce, child custody, and child support? Want to find Illinois’s state court forms and instructions and local court websites? Here’s where to start.
Illinois has requirements in terms of how to complete a divorce that require a judge to review and approve the divorce settlement or, if the spouses can't agree to a settlement, decide how property will be divided and how parenting time will be shared.
Will parents share joint custody, or will one parent have sole custody and the other visitation? Will they share decision-making, or will one parent have the final say on things like medical treatment and education? What’s the best way to divide parenting time?
Illinois' child support guidelines are the starting point for every decision about who will pay child support and how much.
Alimony is designed to help a lower-earning spouse--or a spouse who's been out of the workforce entirely while raising children or taking care of the household--to get through the divorce process and transition into being self-supporting.
If you're going through a divorce, you have to make decisions about how to divide the property and the debts.