Charging orders are one of the more confusing areas of judgment enforcement law. Ordinarily, a judgment creditor would serve a citation to discover assets an...

When answering a plaintiff's complaint in litigation, the Illinois Code of Civil Procedure gives a defendant three options. He can either admit a factual all...

Aurora maintains a list of "known habitual drunkards." Their names and photos are hung in bars and liquor stores and the city's liquor ordinance prohibits an...

Let's assume that you are a bartender. A woman walks into the bar who is obviously pregnant and orders a double vodka on the rocks. Can you refuse to serve h...

A Rockford, Illinois man was murdered in his driveway. A guy named Lorenzo Kent was arrested for the murder. At trial, the State introduced a screenshot of a...

Barbara Bagley was the common law wife of Bradley Vom Baur. (Common law marriages are recognized in Utah, but not in Illinois.) In December 2011, Ms. Bagley ...

The Illinois Criminal Code was recently amended to include a new crime called "financial exploitation of an elderly person or a person with a disability." Th...