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Leving team gained court-ordered parenting time for dad who had none By Laura Reichel A dad and his girlfriend were together for many years, and had two children, a boy and a girl, who are now both adolescents. After the relationship between dad and the mother ended, the children stayed with their father. Afterwards, the…
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Dad and children reunited for the holidays By Laura Reichel A father’s greatest joy is brought by his children, and his greatest fear is losing them. This is the same fear a terrified father experienced when, despite being granted an Order of Protection by the courts against his ex, his two children were left with…
Leving team helped Dad defeat an order of protection, reuniting him with his children By: Laura Reichel A caring father faced his worst nightmare when, after an acrimonious break up, he suddenly found himself banned from seeing his own children. Desperate, he reached out to the Law Offices of Jeffery M. Leving, Ltd. for help. They…
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Dad wins more parenting time in court, protecting his daughters and their future By: Laura Reichel A father’s presence can have a profound impact on his children’s lives. The time between a father and his children is crucial and necessary to strengthening and protecting their bonds with each other. However, there are times when the…
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Leving legal team reunites father and son after rescuing boy By Laura Reichel A distressed father in dire need turned to the Law Offices of Jeffery M. Leving, Ltd. for emergency help, after discovering that his ex had disappeared with his son. Dad had a twelve-year-old son with his child’s mother,…
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Leving team wins in court for dad and his daughters By Laura Reichel The time a father spends with his children is both precious and important. It gives fathers the opportunity to bond with their children, show how much they care about them, create lifelong memories, and more importantly, protect them as only a father…
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Radio Show: Dad fought for his daughters and won By: Laura Reichel A good father’s instinct is to protect his children and act in their best interests. This victory celebrates a father who took these responsibilities seriously when his two daughters, ages twelve and eight, were taken from him and his home to an unknown…
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Children rescued from abusive home, safe with dad By Laura Reichel A father’s worst nightmare became reality after the mother of his two boys took his children from him to Oklahoma, where they were reportedly abused and neglected. The Law Offices of Jeffery M. Leving Ltd.’s legal team found them, brought them back home to…
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Judge grants struggling father relief from ‘unconscionable’ pre-nuptial agreement By: Laura Reichel Prenuptial agreements are meant to lay out how individuals entering a marriage will divide their assets in case of divorce. While the main goal is to protect an individual’s assets in case of divorce, there are times when they are used to take…
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Ex-wife used daughter’s therapy to cut dad’s court ordered parenting time By Laura Reichel The time a father spends with his child can be incredibly important to maintaining a strong relationship between father and child. However, in the case of a Chicago father, he feared his relationship with his young daughter was at risk. Chicago…
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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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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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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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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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Daughter threatened saved by father in legal fight, Leving says A loving father who feared his daughter was being threatened physically turned to me for help — and we delivered for him. This is the case I’ll be talking about on my weekly radio show, the Dads’ Rights Legal Hour, 9-10 a.m. CDT Saturday, September…
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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…