http://www.divorce-lawyers-phoenix.com/blog Phoenix Divorce Lawyers & Attorneys Fri, 19 Mar 2010 21:01:15 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Satisfy Your Credit Counseling Requirement Before Filing Bankruptcy 1 Before Filing http://www.divorce-lawyers-phoenix.com/blog/?p=46 2-Hour Personal Financial Management Instructional Course 1 After Filing http://www.divorce-lawyers-phoenix.com/blog/?p=45 In determining the propriety or impropriety of divorce decree ordering conveyance of property under former section 17 of the Divorce Act, the authority of the court was based upon powers conferred by statute rather than upon general equity powers. http://www.divorce-lawyers-phoenix.com/blog/?p=44 The trial court was not barred by res judicata from considering facts that were new since the last hearing in relation to the propriety of the maintenance award. Res judicata and collateral estoppel did not bar husband’s action for arrearage in wife’s contributions to children’s educational expenses.  Wife’s action seeking an ... http://www.divorce-lawyers-phoenix.com/blog/?p=43 Denial of the husband’s motion to reduce the child support order was reversed because the trial court committed impermissible “double counting” of the husband’s workers’ compensation settlement proceeds when it awarded half of the settlement to wife and children but did not adjust the husband’s child support obligation. Where an order ... http://www.divorce-lawyers-phoenix.com/blog/?p=42 Reduction of income was the type of substantial change in circumstances contemplated by subsection (a) and thus it was error for the trial court to decline to modify the maintenance award. Because the terms of the judgment did not incorporate the terms of a settlement agreement pursuant to 75 ILCS 5/502(f), ... http://www.divorce-lawyers-phoenix.com/blog/?p=41 Outstanding obligations incurred during the marriage previous to the entry of the decree placed financial demands upon defendant; however, this was out a change in circumstances during the relevant period because the change in circumstances must have occurred after the date of the decree. http://www.divorce-lawyers-phoenix.com/blog/?p=40 Where petitioner claimed that the focus of the court should have been the change in his income and not his net worth because the parties did not contemplate that petitioner would have to liquidate assets to meet his maintenance and child support obligations’ under the separation agreement, then the court ... http://www.divorce-lawyers-phoenix.com/blog/?p=39 The trial court did not err in refusing to make the child support award retroactive to September, the date when petitioner’s maintenance payments ceased, as there was no indication in the record that notice of hearing on petitioner’s petition for modification was served in September. http://www.divorce-lawyers-phoenix.com/blog/?p=38 Where husband had additional income each year, in excess of his own living expenses and the maintenance payment he must make, trial court’s order of husband’s financial responsibility for wife’s attorney fees was not an abuse of discretion as her ability to pay was limited. http://www.divorce-lawyers-phoenix.com/blog/?p=37