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Leving Firm Matrimonial Law Seminar: Enhancing Attorney-Client Relationships in High Conflict Litigation to Win 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 August 21st at 6:30 p.m. CDT at 19 S. LaSalle St. in Chicago. The keynote CLE…
Leving team’s victory in court keeps boy close to his dad By: Laura Reichel When a father gets divorced, it’s usually great if his children live nearby so they don’t lose each other – and that was the situation for a dad and his 10-year-old son. However, according to court documents, the mother suddenly decided…
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Leving team stopped mother from taking dad’s kids out of the country and disappearing By: Laura Reichel After the mother of his children told a Chicago dad that he would never see his kids again, the distraught father turned to the Law Offices of Jeffery M. Leving Ltd. The Leving team went to court to…
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Divorced dad recovered thousands in back child support By Laura Reichel A struggling Chicago dad survived a divorce several years ago. However, after the divorce, his ex refused to pay child support he badly needed to the point where she owed a sizeable chunk of money – many thousands of dollars. Chicago matrimonial attorney Jeffery…
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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 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 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 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 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 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…
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 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 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 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…
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…
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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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 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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