Post- Divorce Modifications
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Post-Divorce Modifications
When a job is lost, a promotion is achieved, a serious illness requires specialized, expensive health care, and obligations under the divorce decree such as child support, maintenance or visitation may need to be revised.
If there have been significant changes in yours or your former spouse’s economic circumstances, attorney Roland P. Ernst of the Law Offices of Carr, O’Rourke & Ernst can help you make the changes you need to your divorce decree.
For more than 38 years, Roland P. Ernst has helped many family law clients in Cook County and Will County rebuild their lives when substantial changes in circumstances have made then unable to comply with obligations under their divorce agreement. When circumstances warrant, he has also assisted clients in obtaining more support than originally ordered. Call Roland P. Ernst to schedule an initial consultation to discuss your modification needs.
Adjustments in Support for Changes Occurring After Your Divorce
Once a support obligation has been established, it is not permanent. A modification of support may be possible in circumstances such as:
• Significant changes in income, such as promotions, pay cuts or loss of job,
• New employment,
• Illness or disability suffered by a parent or child,
• A growing child’s more demanding financial needs,
• A spouse receiving maintenance remarries or lives with a new boyfriend or girlfriend.
Adjustments in Custody and Parenting Time
Sometimes situation arise where the visitation schedule may be required to be changed. This may arise when there is a change in an employment schedule, a spouse moves or wants to remove the children from the State of Illinois. Sometimes because of significant changes it may be in the child’s best interest that custody be changed.
Discuss Your Changing Needs
Support, visitation and custody provisions of a divorce agreement are not set in stone. Too many things can change - employment, health, and increased needs of the children, just to name a few. Roland Ernst provides the quality representation and personal service that can help you with every transition.
When changing circumstances require revisions to your divorce decree, contact Roland Ernst at 708-949-8231 to arrange for an initial consultation to discuss your modification needs.
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