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PRACTICE AREAS

CREATIVE SOLUTIONS TO YOUR MOST CRITICAL PROBLEMS

Our team of committed attorneys understands the importance of your case. With decades of experience at the nation’s largest family law firm, Jackson Buckley & Pfanenstiel, LLP will handle your legal issues with vigor, compassion, and professionalism.

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DIVORCE

Jackson Buckley Pfanenstiel, LLP has experience handling the most difficult family law issues, and counsel clients on issues related to:


  • Business Valuation

  • Business Litigation and Shareholder Disputes

  • Forensic accounting and tracing of assets and income

  • Matters concerning closely held and family businesses

  • Stock options, restricted stock, and equity awards

  • Executive compensation matters

  • Non-marital claims

  • Trust matters

  • Determination of income and compensation

  • Treatment of retained earnings

  • Child custody matters including custody evaluations

  • Relocation

  • Bifurcation

  • Tax matters and planning

  • Interstate and international discovery 

  • Petitions for Annulment

  • Motions to Vacate Judgments

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CHILD CUSTODY AND PARENTAL RESPONSIBILITIES

Our partners have experience handling the most difficult child-related issues, and counsel clients on issues including:


  • Allocation of parenting time

  • Allocation of decision making

  • Relocation

  • Issues related to supervised parenting time

  • Matters involving substance abuse impacting minor children

  • Custody evaluations

  • Cases concerning parental alienation syndrome

  • Multi-jurisdictional disputes

  • UCCJEA matters

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CHILD SUPPORT

Our firm counsels clients on all issues related to child support, including:


  • Income identification

  • Lifestyle analyses 

  • Matters concerning closely held and family businesses

  • Treatment of retained hearings

  • Stock options, restricted stock, and equity awards

  • Executive compensation matters

  • Income imputation 

  • Child support modifications

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MAINTENANCE

We represent clients on all issues related to maintenance, including:

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  • Income identification

  • Lifestyle analyses

  • Income imputation

  • Matters concerning closely held and family businesses

  • Stock options, restricted stock, and equity awards

  • Executive compensation matters

  • Maintenance buyouts

  • Vocational assessments

  • Maintenance modifications and terminations

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PRE- AND POST-NUPTIAL AGREEMENTS

Premarital and Postmarital Agreement

We provide advice to clients related to:

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  • Premarital agreement drafting

  • Postnuptial agreement drafting

  • Litigation regarding prenuptial and postnuptial agreements

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RELOCATION

Our partners work with clients seeking to relocate or to challenge a proposed relocation, including:


  • Multi-jurisdictional disputes

  • UCCJEA matters

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COLLEGE EXPENSES AND UNEMANCIPATED ADULTS

Our partners counsel clients on the following issues:


  • Allocation of responsibility for college expenses

  • Modifications of college expense obligations

  • Petitions to support unemancipated adults

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ORDERS OF PROTECTION

We represent clients in the following matters:

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  • Orders of Protection 

  • Actions under the Illinois Domestic Violence Act

  • Temporary restraining orders

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CIVIL LITIGATION

We help clients resolve civil litigation issues including:

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  • Temporary restraining orders

  • Subpoena defense

  • Deposition defense

  • Protective orders

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