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Leving Firm Matrimonial Law Seminar: Parental Responsibilities for Non-Parents
The Law Offices of Jeffery M. Leving Ltd. will host the next presentation of the Arthur S. Kallow Continuing Legal Education (CLE) Seminar Series on July 17th at 6:30 p.m. CDT at 19 S. LaSalle St. in Chicago.
The keynote CLE speaker, matrimonial and family law attorney Michael Ochoa, who has been awarded the Best International Custody Lawyer Award, will be presenting on parental responsibilities for non-parents.
As Mr. Ochoa, a brilliant and seasoned attorney will explain, Illinois law allows non-parents an allocation of parental responsibilities in the same capacity as parents in certain specific circumstances.
Under the law, provided that certain requirements are met,any person – including stepparents, grandparents, aunts, uncles and other long-term caretakers of children – can get majority parenting time and sole decision-making authority of any child, whether that person is related to the child or not, if it is in the best interests of the child.
The presentation will be followed by a question-and-answer session.
Inquiries about this seminar should be made by emailing [email protected]
The Arthur S. Kallow CLE Seminar Series
The Kallow CLE Seminar Series, which began in 2014, provides legal education to family law attorneys and other professionals looking to expand their legal knowledge. CLE credit will be awarded. The series was created in the relentless pursuit of excellence to maintain dominance in the firm’s practice area with court successes.
The Law Offices of Jeffery M. Leving Ltd.
Matrimonial attorney Jeffery M. Leving is the recipient of President Biden’s Presidential Lifetime Achievement Award. In addition, the Illinois House of Representatives has honored Leving “for his work in safeguarding the rights of fathers and protecting the welfare of children and families in this State,” and the Illinois Senate has issued a proclamation recognizing his efforts on behalf of fathers.
Leving, who has dedicated his career to safeguarding children and reuniting them with their fathers, has written three acclaimed books: Fathers’ Rights, Divorce Wars and How to be a Good Divorced Dad, the latter of which was praised by President Obama and by the late Cardinal Francis E. George, then the archbishop of Chicago.
To learn more about law and fatherhood, follow the Law Offices of Jeffery M. Leving Ltd. on Facebook and X@DadsRights.
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Hanania also writes about Middle East issues for the Arab News, and The Arab Daily News criticizing government policies in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Hanania was named "Best Ethnic American Columnist" by the New America Media in November 2007, and is the 2009 recipient of the SPJ National Sigma Delta Chi Award for column writing.
Email Ray Hanania at [email protected].
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