Representative Cases

• Contract: resolution of suit by buyer of industrial machinery alleging breach of warranty of fitness for a particular purpose and remedies when a warranty fails of its essential purpose
• Contract: resolution of dispute over sale of automobile through a dual agent who failed to transmit full payment tendered by the buyer by reason of agent’s sudden death
• Custody and Allocation of Parental Rights: numerous cases concerning removal of children from the state and modification of parenting time based on relocation within the state
• Custody and Allocation of Parental Rights: numerous cases involving breakdown of parent-child relationship and efforts to reestablish relationship between parent and estranged children
• Dissolution of Marriage: allocation of royalties off patents obtained during marriage both as a division of assets and their relationship to child support
• Dissolution of Marriage: validity, interpretation and application of prenuptial agreement to post marital increases in retirement assets and alleged income earned but undistributed by non-marital business ventures
• Dissolution of Marriage: interpretation and application of a judgment of dissolution of marriage upon the parties’ subsequent remarriage and a second dissolution proceeding

• Dissolution of Marriage: determining the validity and application of a foreign divorce judgment to a dissolution of marriage proceeding pending in Illinois
• Dissolution of Marriage and Post Judgment Review of Maintenance: party seeking conversion of maintenance from reviewable to permanent based upon allegations of disability caused by traumatic brain injury supported by and challenged by expert testimony of a neuropsychiatrist and a neurologist
• Eminent Domain: proceeding seeking just compensation for the part taken, the remainder and temporary construction easements
• Employment: sexual harassment in employment and wrongful termination seeking both compensatory as well as punitive damages
  Employment: allegation of malicious interference with contract and liability under the Illinois Whistleblower Act
• Grandparent Custody and Visitation: maternal grandparent’s petition for custody after the death of mother; upon resolution of custody issue in favor of father, grandparent visitation monitored over an extended period of time resulting in a suspension of visitation
• Post Judgment Modification of Maintenance: deviation from guideline support sought by high income parent; treatment of non-cash tax benefits available to parent responsible for child support when benefits accrue by reason of new spouse’s investment portfolio
• Presided over numerous civil actions involving personal injury and property damage arising out of automobile collisions