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Chicago and other cities should launch initiatives to help fathers The Law Offices of Jeffery M. Leving Ltd. is calling on the City of Chicago and cities all over America to create programs that are similar to Milwaukee’s Fatherhood Initiative. Attorney Jeffery Leving, founder and president of the Law Offices of Jeffery M. Leving Ltd….
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Systems can create parental alienation, and add barriers to healthy families and father inclusion. These systems created for protection, should not become systems of harm. This is what I’ll be talking about on my weekly Chicagoland radio broadcast, the Dads’ Rights Legal Hour, 9-10 a.m. CDT Saturday, October 21 on Power 92.3 FM. I represented…
Court orders wife to stop selling marital assets The father of a 7-year-old girl was rightfully upset when the child’s mother sold a very rare and expensive antique car that the couple acquired while married without his knowledge or consent and without sharing the proceeds. Attorney Jeffery Leving, founder and president of the Law Offices…
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CLE at Leving firm to focus on conflicts of interest in family law cases 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 Wednesday, Sept. 20 at 6:30 p.m. CDT at 19 S. LaSalle St. in Chicago. Distinguished attorney…
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Dads’ Rights Victory: In battle of aunts, our client gains time with orphaned niece By Jeffery M. Leving A 3-year-old girl tragically became an orphan when both of her parents died. She has aunts who are still living – and we had to fight for one of them to see her own niece. I’ll talk…
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Fathers’ Rights Court victory: After hard-fought trial, judge gives custody of children to dad In a case that involved the heartbreak of a mother’s illness and death, we fought and won in court to bring grief-stricken children back to their father. I’ll talk about this case on my weekly Chicago radio show, the Dads’ Rights…
Therapy under way to reunite dad and son Fathers’ Rights attorney Jeffery M. Leving will speak on his weekly radio show about a case in which his law firm secured a long-sought victory. “We reunited a loving father with his young son,” Leving says. “It was a fierce battle, but we won. Failure was not…
Using rules of evidence to achieve court victories to be topic of CLE seminar at Leving firm 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 Tuesday, Aug. 15 at 6:30 p.m. CDT at 19 S. LaSalle St. in…
Dad wins in court vs. relatives to recover his children and bring them home By Kate Davis A loving father whose relatives turned against him needed legal help to prevent his children from being taken away from him. Renowned Fathers’ Rights attorney Jeffery M. Leving, whose firm won in court on behalf of this father,…
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New alimony reforms in Florida should be an example for other states By Jeffery M. Leving The reasons couples get divorced are usually complex and have a lot of nuance, yet too many states have a simple, one-size-fits all mentality when it comes to alimony. However, the State of Florida just signed into law an…
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Fathers’ Rights: Innocent dad in jeopardy of arrest wins in court, keeping him out of jail and with his kids A desperate father, who is raising and supporting two children by himself, discovered recently that he was the subject of a “body attachment.” That’s a court order that means he could be picked up and…
Proposed bipartisan Senate bill to keep kids under 13 off social media should be passed By Jeffery M. Leving Recently there have been a few lawsuits filed by some states against social media companies in order to protect the mental health of youths. There have also been calls for government regulation, movement from the social…
While science grapples with the cause of the life expectancy gap between sexes, men need to make better health choices By Jeffery M. Leving While it’s well known that women live longer than men, in the age of modern medicine it is shocking that the gap has grown instead of closed. The reason is debatable,…
Children taken out of state returned to father by Dads’ Rights attorney A father whose three school-aged children were taken from him to a different state by the biological mother had them returned by court order, said Fathers’ Rights Attorney Jeffery M. Leving. The father has three children with his girlfriend, with whom he’s had…
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Incarcerated dad wins court order banning mother from relocating daughter to Georgia A father who’s in prison in Illinois has a 9-year-old daughter, whom he raised with the girl’s mother until he was locked up. He recently learned that his daughter’s mother planned to move, with the girl, to Georgia. This was jarring news to…
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Boy rescued from ‘toxic’ home, reunited with dad Renowned matrimonial attorney Jeffery M. Leving and his legal team won a case that took extensive, persistent work, along with patience and strength from their client and his son. Leving will speak about this hard-fought victory on his weekly radio show, the Dads’ Rights Legal Hour, 9-10…
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Leving: Father wins case to raise his daughters The Law Offices of Jeffery M. Leving Ltd. won a case for a father who was happily and successfully raising his two teenage daughters – until the girls’ mother reappeared and abruptly took the girls away. Jeffery Leving will talk about the case on his weekly radio…
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Help for fathers now available at Little Free Libraries Three books providing practical information and encouragement for single and divorced fathers are now turning up in Little Free Library locations around Chicago. Attorney Jeffery M. Leving, a trailblazer in helping fathers stay involved with their children after a divorce or breakup with the mother, is…
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