Category: Jeffery Leving

Dad won in court vs. relatives to recover his children and brought them home

July 19, 2024July 19, 2024 Ray Hanania No Comments

Dad won in court vs. relatives to recover his children and brought them home By Laura Reichel A loving father whose relatives turned against him needed legal help to prevent his children from being taken away from him. Chicago matrimonial attorney Jeffery M. Leving will discuss this complex court victory on the Dads’ Rights Legal…

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Leving Firm Matrimonial Law Seminar: Parental Responsibilities for Non-Parents

July 17, 2024July 17, 2024 Ray Hanania No Comments

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…

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Leving team rescued Dad’s little girls, saving them from a toxic home

July 12, 2024July 12, 2024 Ray Hanania No Comments

Leving team rescued Dad’s little girls, saving them from a toxic home By Laura Reichel A father’s greatest joy is brought by his children and his greatest fear is losing them. This is the fear a desperate father experienced after discovering his ex-wife was planning on taking his children away from him and exposing them…

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Court terminated critically injured man’s maintenance payments to ex-wife

July 5, 2024July 5, 2024 Ray Hanania No Comments

Court terminated critically injured man’s maintenance payments to ex-wife By Laura Reichel Divorce, even if it is an amicable one, is a difficult and emotionally complex life event. In many cases, the parties involved often seek to protect themselves financially or seek financial compensation from their soon-to-be ex. In a divorce, one spouse can be…

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Dad keeps sons at home with him, gains child support

June 21, 2024June 24, 2024 Ray Hanania No Comments

Dad keeps sons at home with him, gains child support By Laura Reichel A father who was raising his two boys, ages 15 and 13, alone suddenly found himself at risk of losing them. The mother was never much involved in the boys’ lives. According to court records, she moved from place to place and…

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Leving Firm Matrimonial Law Seminar: Comparing administrative child support proceedings to judicial proceedings

June 18, 2024June 19, 2024 Ray Hanania No Comments

Leving Firm Matrimonial Law Seminar: Comparing administrative child support proceedings to judicial proceedings 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 June 20th at 6:30 p.m. CDT at 19 S. LaSalle St. in Chicago. The keynote CLE speaker, matrimonial…

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Father with troubled past gains full parenting time

June 14, 2024June 14, 2024 Ray Hanania No Comments

Father with troubled past gains full parenting time By Laura Reichel A Chicago father with a problematic past, was being kept from his son. He drank a little too much back in the day, and he had a criminal record. When he and his wife separated, he initially had limited contact with his grade school-age son,…

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Court orders divorced mother to allow son to visit dad’s critically injured relative

June 7, 2024June 7, 2024 Ray Hanania No Comments

Court orders divorced mother to allow son to visit dad’s critically injured relative By: Laura Reichel A caring father of a 6-year-old boy shared custody of his child with his ex-wife. One day, Dad received news that a close family member had been hospitalized after a serious accident and was hanging on for his very life….

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Dad fears losing son after ex-wife accuses him of child endangerment

June 1, 2024June 1, 2024 News Editor No Comments

Dad fears losing son after ex-wife accuses him of child endangerment By Laura Reichel A loving dad was in the middle of a long and bitter divorce over his four-year-old son. His ex-wife had made numerous claims against him. Despite these attacks, Dad has fought to remain connected with his son. Out of the blue,…

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Dad reunited with young daughter after ex-wife obtained baseless Order of Protection against him

May 24, 2024May 24, 2024 Guest Columnist No Comments

Dad reunited with young daughter after ex-wife obtained baseless Order of Protection against him By Kate Davis A Chicago dad had a great relationship with his 5-year-old daughter. Even after he and his wife split up, they shared parenting time, and were very amicable – that was until his co-parenting relationship with his ex-wife crumbled…

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Local law enforcement agencies should tap into state witness protection fund to help bring victim families closure

May 18, 2024May 18, 2024 Ray Hanania No Comments

Local law enforcement agencies should tap into state witness protection fund to help bring victim families closure By Jeffery M. Leving SM With a reported homicide closure rate of about 20% in Chicago, far too many families are waiting for justice for their loved ones and closure for their families. While there are several reasons…

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Leving team frees duped dad from paying child support for another man’s child

April 26, 2024April 26, 2024 Ray Hanania 1 Comment

Leving team frees duped dad from paying child support for another man’s child The Leving legal team won an important case for a man who was ordered to pay child support for a little girl who was not even his biological child. The client and the mother were never married. The mother misled the client…

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Leving team court victory achieves justice for struggling father and his little girl

April 19, 2024April 19, 2024 Ray Hanania 2 Comments

Leving team court victory achieves justice for struggling father and his little girl A desperate father contacted the Leving legal team for help after the mother of his little girl abandoned her. Attorney Jeffery Leving, founder and president of the Law Offices of Jeffery M. Leving, Ltd. in Chicago will talk about this father’s child…

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Federal lawsuit aims to protect kids from Social media

April 5, 2024April 5, 2024 Ray Hanania No Comments

Federal lawsuit aims to protect kids from Social media By Jeffery M. Leving SM Despite several attempts at passing legislation to protect kids on social media, I fear lawmakers have not been able to get much of anything passed. Now, 33 states have banded together with the same objective — protecting kids — and are…

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New study shines light on need for gun storage laws

April 3, 2024April 3, 2024 Ray Hanania 5 Comments

New study shines light on need for gun storage laws By Jeffery M. Leving SM A new study from the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions analyzing 2021 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data indicates what many have feared, that America’s gun violence epidemic has gotten worse. In total, 4,752 young lives were…

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Leving court victory keeps Dad from losing son

March 29, 2024March 29, 2024 Ray Hanania No Comments

Leving court victory keeps Dad from losing son CHICAGO- Dad feared he was at risk for losing his 11-year-old son. Despite his difficult divorce, he has remained an attentive and dedicated father to his child. However, Dad was shocked and horrified to discover that his ex planned to cut him out of his son’s life….

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Leving Firm fights to keep father and children together

March 22, 2024March 22, 2024 Ray Hanania No Comments

Leving Firm fights to keep father and children together Dad’s two children, a 12-year-old boy and a 9-year-old girl, had been kept from him following the death of their mother. Reportedly, Dad and the mother were never married, but they had an informal agreement where Dad would have his children on alternate weekends, and he…

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Leving Firm Matrimonial Law Seminar: Strategies in settling difficult, contested cases

March 20, 2024March 22, 2024 Ray Hanania No Comments

Leving Firm Matrimonial Law Seminar: Strategies in settling difficult, contested 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, March 20 at 6:30 p.m. CDT at 19 S. LaSalle St. in Chicago. The keynote CLE speaker will…

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