Past Cases
Restricted Visitation - My client's ex-husband had abused her child, Adele, from a first marrige continuously throughout their marriage. It was one of the prime reasons for the divorce. At the time of the divorce, my client, Barbara Mandell and her ex-husband, David Duke Mandrell, had two children who were ages 3 and 4 at the time of the divorce. Mr. Mandrell would be transferred by his employer from time to time but always when he worked in the State of Illinois he ended up stalking Barbara. She had to obtain 3 Orders of Protection against him to keep him away from herself. Eight years later, Barbara remarried and is now known as Barbara Mandell Antonio Lopez de la Santa Ana. >>Read More...
Contested Custody Cases - I had a contested custody case recently that concluded after a six (6) day trial. This case arose out of my defense of Richard C. Clark in a case involving an Emergency Order of Protection. It was alleged that Mr. Clark had improperly fondled his 5-year old child while giving her a shower during visitation. The ex-wife, Candace Clark, had apparently decided to use an Order of Protection, to ostensibly, keep her child safe from her father. >>Read More...
New Mexico On My Mind - I recently had a case where my client, who was married and had a small child, retained me in early December for the purpose of divorcing his wife. His wife was pregnant with another man’s child. He also sought to prevent his wife from removing the child to the State of New Mexico where his wife was planning to move to join his mother-in-law who had recently moved there. Unfortunately, my client’s wife was able to leave the State prior to being served with the summons and attempted to initiate a divorce proceeding in the State of New Mexico. >>Read More...
Anatomy of a Contested Case - My client was the mother of four, living in her Arlington Heights, IL home with her husband of 16 years. The husband was in the construction business and was verbally abusive to my client and the children and was a classic bully constantly berating the children and making idle threats towards my client and the children. My client had made and cancelled two previous appointments. She always had second thoughts when she thought of her four children growing up without a father. >> Read More...
We don’t have much, but we can fight about what little we do have - I also had a case involving a young couple in Schaumburg who were a typical dual income/no children couple. They owned a condominium in Schaumburg and had limited financial assets. However, this did not stop these people from generating a tremendous amount of attorney’s fees due to the fact that they could not agree upon the disposition of the marital property including the condominium in Schaumburg. >>Read More...
The Millionaire Next Door - This case involves a couple in their late sixties who had been married for 42 years. These people had lived in Mount Prospect for over 35 years. They had three children who, at the time of the commencement of the divorce were 40, 38 and 36. The couple had seven grandchildren ranging in ages from 4 years old to 17 years old. The husband had decided, after retiring from his job as a mid level manager with a large Fortune 500 company to become employed at the local Home Depot. It was at this Home Depot that he had fallen in love with a younger female co-worker. >>Read More...
