Divorce & Separation lawyers in Illinois Sarah Zigulich to Theresa Kulat

Firm: SDZ Law, LLC

77 W. Wacker Drive , Chicago , Illinois 60601

Practice Areas: Divorce & Separation

Sarah D. Zigulich is the Founding Member and Principal of SDZ Law, LLC. She restricts her practice exclusively to the area of family law, including traditional contested litigation, appeals, negotiation, mediation, alternative dispute resolution, and collaborative law.. Prior to founding the firm, Sarah established herself as an associate attorney at a large Chicago family law firm. She counsels clients in all areas of matrimonial and parentage law, including divorce, child custody (allocation of parental responsibilities and parenting time), spousal support (maintenance or alimony), child support, child relocation, debt and asset distribution, pension division, orders of protection, prenuptial, postnuptial and cohabitation agreements, and numerous other financial and emotional decisions surrounding family law litigation, negotiation, and mediation. Sarah has extensive experience guiding clients through high-conflict parenting relationships, while her unique background gives her a foundation of unparalleled knowledge in handling complicated financial issues related to high-net-worth individuals, including business valuations, preserving non-marital assets, tracing concealed accounts, and analyzing complex compensation benefits.. It is vital to Sarah that her clients have the tools and information to make impactful decisions during their litigation. She takes the time to specifically discuss the process, advantageous strategies, and potential outcomes with her clients. She has been consistently recognized by her peers in the field, including being selected as a 2019 Rising Star by Super Lawyers, a 2019 Emerging Lawyer by Leading Lawyers, receiving the award of the Top 40 Under 40 by The National Advocates in 2017, and being granted the “Clients’ Choice Award” by Avvo in 2015.. Sarah is the Co-Chair of the Chicago Bar Association’s Alliance for Women Committee and is a member of the Chicago Bar Association and Illinois Bar Association. She earned her law degree from The John Marshall Law School in Chicago, Illinois. While in law school, she was a member of The John Marshall Law Review and belonged to the Phi Delta Phi International Legal Honor Society. Sarah graduated cum laude from Loyola University Chicago with a Bachelor of Science in Psychology and a double minor in Sociology and Women’s Studies. Prior to practicing, Sarah was a legal extern to a judge presiding in the Domestic Relations Division of the Circuit Court of Cook County.. In addition to her legal training, Sarah obtained her Divorce Mediation Certificate from Northwestern University in 2013.

2445 Dean Street Suite E , Saint Charles , Illinois 60175

Practice Areas: Divorce & Separation

Steven N. Peskind is the principal of the Peskind Law Firm, a matrimonial and family law firm practicing in the Chicago area.  Mr. Peskind currently serves as a legislative appointee on the Illinois Family Law Study Committee, working to refine and improve Illinois’ family laws.  He is an elected member of the American Law Institute and a fellow of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers.  Mr. Peskind is active with the American Bar Association family law section where he chairs the practice management committee and serves on the publication board. Also, he is an editor of the Journal of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers. He blogs on family law matters at

Firm: Kollias & Giese, P.C.

400 S. Knoll Street, Ste B , Wheaton , Illinois 60187

Practice Areas: Divorce & Separation

Teresa M. Dettloff is a licensed attorney in Illinois concentrating in family matters and divorce, serving the counties of DuPage, Cook, Will, Kane, and other surrounding counties. Teresa has been appointed as a Guardian ad Litem in numerous cases in DuPage County and is passionate about family law matters.. Teresa graduated magna cum laude from Loyola University Chicago School of Law, where she served as a Lead Article Editor for the Loyola Univeristy Chicago Law Journal and with experience clerking for the Cook County State's Attorney's Office in the Gang Crimes Unit and Criminal Appeals. Teresa also worked for the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in the Office of the Prosecutor of the United Nations in the Netherlands.

Firm: The Witt Law Firm, P.C.

564 W RANDOLPH ST FL 2 , Chicago , Illinois 60661

Practice Areas: Divorce & Separation

Tanya Witt earned her law degree from Harvard Law School in 1994. Ms. Witt represents men and women in divorce and accepts cases in the counties of Cook, Kane, DuPage, and Lake. In addition to divorce, Ms. Witt handles child custody matters, prenuptial and post-nuptial agreements. She is a Certified Mediator and trained in Collaborative Practice.  A double Ivy League graduate, Ms. Witt attained her undergraduate degree magna cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. Ms. Witt is a member of the Illinois State Bar and its Family Law Section. Prior to founding her own practice, Tanya Witt practiced law in the Chicago office of Baker & McKenzie, one of the world's largest international law firms.

Firm: Tommalieh Law LLC

16061 South 94th Avenue , Orland Hills , Illinois 60487

Practice Areas: Divorce & Separation

Firm: Butler, Giraudo & Meister, P.C.

100 S Main St , Morton , Illinois 61550

Practice Areas: Divorce & Separation

I have handled and tried numerous contested cases, including allocation of parental responsibility, previously known as custody and visitation, interstate child removal cases and adoptions. I have also handled and tried numerous contested Orders of Protection. I have experience with complex divorce issues, including asset division, marital business valuations, child support, and spousal maintenance for both men and women. I focus on reasonable settlements of cases, but welcome the opportunity to fully litigate a matter if the parties require a judge's decision.

Firm: Susan Lampert & Associates

790 Estate Drive , Deerfield , Illinois 60015

Practice Areas: Divorce & Separation

Susan Lampert has concentrated her law practice on divorce and family law for over 25 years. She has successfully handled hundreds of complex family law matters, including maintenance, income determination issues, business valuations, dissipation claims, tracing of marital and non-marital assets, as well as child custody, visitation, child support, removal disputes, domestic violence orders of protection and pre-nuptial agreements. Ms. Lampert is a member of the Illinois Bar Association, Chicago Bar Association, Lake County Bar Association, North Shore Law and Exclusive Professional Women’s Networking Group. The attorneys of Susan Lampert & Associates are all experienced in all matrimonial and family law matters. We work as a team to provide quality legal representation at reasonable rates. Our clients are treated with professionalism, competence and courtesy.

Firm: Butler, Giraudo & Meister, P.C.

100 S. Main St. , Morton , Illinois 61550

Practice Areas: Divorce & Separation

I have substantial experience handling complex asset division, pension issues and spousal maintenance matters for both men and women. The majority of my cases involve complex asset division, pension and employment-related asset division, and related issues.  I have experience handling the division of farming interests in divorce.  My experience teaches me that the most successful outcomes are a product of impeccable preparation coupled with a genuine rapport between attorney and client.  I value the partnership I have with my clients as we work through each legal challenge the case may present.. In addition to my focus on property division cases, I also handle child custody, visitation and interstate child removal cases. I  have experience in dealing with mental health issues, professional evaluators, and emotional and physical abuse of children and spouses.. I have written appellate briefs and have argued cases before the Illinois Appellate Courts for both the Third and Fourth Districts while representing clients in the appellate process.

Firm: Steponate & Wasko, Ltd.

1440 Renaissance Drive , Park Ridge , Illinois 60068

Practice Areas: Divorce & Separation

Firm: Mevorah & Giglio Law Offices

900 East Roosevelt Road , Lombard , Illinois 60148

Practice Areas: Divorce & Separation

Steven H. Mevorah is the founder of the Illinois law firm Mevorah & Giglio Law Offices, with offices in Lombard, Bloomingdale, and Naperville (by appointment only).. With a legal career that began in 1979, Mr. Mevorah brings significant experience to bear in achieving positive results for his clients. He practices in the areas of Divorce, Family Law, Criminal Law, and Personal Injury.. Taking an aggressive yet down to earth approach, Mr. Mevorah will do everything possible to protect his clients' legal rights. His directness and honesty ensure that his clients can always expect to hear the truth about their case and understand that, as their attorney, Mr. Mevorah works for them.. Bar and Court Admissions. Education. Military Service. Bar and Court Admissions. Education. Military Service

Firm: Scott A Berndtson PC

2831 Dempster Street , Park Ridge , Illinois 60068

Practice Areas: Divorce & Separation

Scott A. Berndtson Scott graduated from the Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago-Kent College of Law (IIT Chicago-Kent) in 1987 receiving the Bar and Gavel Award for outstanding service to the college, community and the profession of law. His legal career began in the storied civil litigation department of Baker & McKenzie’s Chicago office assisting in the defense of physicians, hospitals and pharmaceutical companies.. After three years at Baker & McKenzie Scott joined Keck, Mahin & Cate defending the errors and omissions policy of Continental Bank officers after the historic collapse of US oil and gas futures market in the 1980’s. This collapse required the US government to bail out the bank despite a billion dollar excess coverage policy of insurance. Scott managed a staff of 30 and helped to develop a defense which ultimately proved successful in the case. The case was later made into a book entitled "Belly Up.". His legal career has included serving as a Lecturing Professor of Law at IIT Chicago-Kent where he taught Dispute Resolution, Mediation and Arbitration, serving as Interim Academic Dean of the Aerospace Institute of Chicago and as an Adjunct Professor of Business Law at the University of Wisconsin. Over 30 years of practice Scott has handled diverse matters in Illinois, Iowa and Wisconsin and multiple federal jurisdictions.. Scott has been lead counsel on successful cases in multiple state and federal jurisdictions and as lead attorney on matters in over a dozen Counties in Illinois. Never turning away from difficult cases, Scott relied on his philosophy of science undergraduate education from the University of Illinois at Chicago when he brought the first case in Illinois sounding in thermo-acoustic electric wave blast brain injury. Later he successfully employed the same theory on a matter in a Wisconsin case utilizing the same neuropsychological expert from Northwestern University and physicians from the University of Chicago to make his case on the reliability of the cutting edge science of electron microscopy that proved his theory of injury.. After practicing in Chicago for a number of years Scott moved to rural Galena, Illinois where he raised his family of four children. He became a named partner with a prominent local lawfirm before creating his own law firm in 1997. Scott moved back to Chicago in 2002. Over his career he has developed skills in a wide area of practices including, injury law (defense and plaintiff), probate law, trusts and estates, land use, employment law, family law, insurance law and commercial litigation. In 2009 he joined forces with Michael J. Morrisroe of Morrisroe & Associates, Ltd, a prominent transactional and commercial litigation boutique law firm in DuPage County, concentrating in commercial litigation in both state and federal courts; including copyright, trademark, trade secrets, unfair trade practices, and patents matters, as well as, injury, probate and family law. Recent successes included achieving the dismissal of all 10 counts in a complex litigation action brought against a brilliant inventor in a heated lawsuit entailing over 2 million documents in discovery. In another recent federal matter, Scott teamed with Mike Morrisroe and firm attorney, John Madden, to successfully try and win another complex federal jury trial.  Scott's  successes have achieved an enviable following of loyal clients.  Scott is an acknowledged community volunteer winning service awards for helping to create a multi-state system of shelters and counseling service for battered and abused women and children and was recently acknowledged as a Pro Bono Attorney of the Year by the DuPage County Bar Association. Scott served as the Five County 15th Judicial District Assembly Member (Legislative Branch) of the Illinois State Bar Association and has served as the Chairman of the Illinois State Bar Association’s Law Office Management Section Council. He is a former Director of the American Bar Association’s Legal Technology Advisory Council. Scott was born in Chicago, grew up in Barrington, Illinois and now lives in Park Ridge, Illinois with his wife, Samim Munshi, also a distinguished attorney and former DuPage County Assistant State's Attorney Civil Bureau Attorney of the Year.

Firm: Stephanie Rachael Lieberman, Attorney at Law

2835 N. Sheffield Ave. , Chicago , Illinois 60657

Practice Areas: Divorce & Separation

Firm: The Weller Law Firm

1 South Church Street , Belleville , Illinois 62220

Practice Areas: Divorce & Separation

Contact. Stan R. Weller is a practicing attorney in the Southern Illinois/Metro East St. Louis area. He established the Weller Law Firm in 2006 after a number of years in private firms, as well as a period with the Illinois Attorney General’s office working in the Sexually Violent Persons Unit. He received his Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1992 and his Juris Doctorate degree from the Southern Illinois University of Carbondale in 1998. He is a certified mediator, arbitrator, and former guardian ad litem, but concentrates his practice in the areas of family law and bankruptcy.. Mr. Weller was admitted and qualified as an attorney to practice before the Supreme Court of the United States on March 27, 2017 in Washington DC.. Mr. Weller is a member of BASIL (Bankruptcy Attorneys of Southern Illinois) and has been a featured speaker at the annual BASIL conference. He is also a member of numerous other legal and professional organizations.

Firm: Sotavia Muhammad, Attorney At Law

15255 S 94th Avenue , Orland Park , Illinois 60462

Practice Areas: Divorce & Separation

Firm: Thatch Law Group

208 S. Jefferson St. , Chicago , Illinois 60661

Practice Areas: Divorce & Separation

Firm: Law Office of Shawn McKenna

105 W Madison , Chicago , Illinois 60602

Practice Areas: Divorce & Separation

Shawn McKenna practices exclusively in the area of family law. His practice is focused in all aspects of domestic-relations litigation. Mr. McKenna has successfully represented individuals on issues arising from domestic-relations proceedings, which involve, among other things, pre-nuptial agreement, post-nuptial agreements, pre-decree matters, post-decree matters, pretrial conference, trials, settlement negotiations, child support, visitation, enforcing orders, enforcing judgments, contempt, etc.

Firm: Sean P. Sullivan

555 Water's Edge Lane Suite 205 , Lombard , Illinois 60148

Practice Areas: Divorce & Separation

Attorney Sean P. Sullivan has been practicing law  for over ten (10) years. Sean excels at providing high quality legal services, primarily focusing in the areas of Family Law and Business Law.. Sean began his legal career by joining The Collins Law Firm as a law clerk where he had the privilege of supporting a team of attorneys specializing in toxic tort litigation at a preeminent Chicago-area boutique personal injury law firm. While there, Sean participated in all aspects of high stakes litigation and gained invaluable experience in large scale civil cases and class action lawsuits. After several years learning all that he could, Sean went on to attend Western Michigan Law School where he obtained his Juris Doctor in 2009, with a certificate in litigation.. While in law school, Sean excelled in mock trial and moot court, and also in his trial skills and alternative dispute resolution classes. During his last semester of law school, Sean completed an internship with the Cook County Public Defender’s Office, representing clients in felony drug cases. During this time, he was asked to join the prestigious Homicide Task Force, representing defendants facing the death penalty. While there, he participated in the representation of a defendant in the Brown’s Chicken murder case, one of Cook County’s largest and most highly publicized defense trials in the last 30 years. After graduating law school, and passing the bar, Sean spent a year working in the General Counsel’s Office for the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation assisting in policy decisions, internal administration, and enforcement of professional licensing. Sean then had the opportunity to work for some of DuPage County’s best-known names in family law before joining a DuPage County general practice firm as its senior family law and litigation counsel.. Sean specializes in highly contested matters, be it divorce cases or business disputes. Sean is a true attorney and counselor at law. Clients rely on him to skillfully navigate them through the challenging decisions they must face at some of the most difficult times in their lives. Sean is a skilled and zealous courtroom advocate, more than capable of taking any matter to trial. However, he also understands that sometimes the best resolutions are achieved through skillful negotiation. Sean’s approach with his clients is both honest and direct at all phases of their legal matter. He ensures his clients clearly understand the issues before them and the various outcomes they may face. Sean firmly believes in making sure his clients understand all possible outcomes, including potential worst-case scenarios and hard truths, and then works diligently with his clients on their behalf to advocate for their best possible outcome.. Sean has a well-earned reputation with his clients and among the legal community for being fair and practical, but never afraid to fight if he must! He understands the significance a family law or business matter can have on nearly every aspect of his client’s life, which is why he gives every client matter his utmost care and attention.. Prior to going to Western Michigan Law School, Sean attended the University of Iowa earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology with a minor in Political Science. Sean often finds his psychology degree useful in his legal strategy and approach to negotiations. A lifelong resident of DuPage County, Sean grew up in Naperville, attending Naperville North High School, and returning to the area after both college and law school.. When not doing legal research or preparing for trial, Sean spends his free time cooking, golfing, and along with his wife and their beloved and highly spoiled rescue dog Mazie, rooting for his beloved Cubbies to win another World Series title! To embrace their philanthropic side, Sean and his wife are also active in supporting the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, helping raise money to find a cure for this terrible disease that personally impacts their extended family.

Firm: Scott P Williams Law

226 N Martin Luther King Jr Ave , Waukegan , Illinois 60085

Practice Areas: Divorce & Separation

Count on attorney Scott P. Williams for knowledgeable legal advice when you need it most. An experienced attorney for more than 30 years, Scott has dedicated his Lake County Illinois law practice to defending and asserting his clients’ rights, in and out of the courtroom. He represents clients in all areas of family, traffic, real estate, and criminal law. He is 100% committed to working with you for the best possible outcome.. Available by appointment via Zoom or in person consultation. Representing clients in Lake, McHenry & Cook County.

Firm: Law Office of Scott J Farrell

P.O. Box , Barrington , Illinois 60010

Practice Areas: Divorce & Separation

Firm: Trinity Family Law

17W635 BUTTERFIELD RD, Suite 318 , OAKBROOK TERRACE , Illinois 60181

Practice Areas: Divorce & Separation

Theresa Beran Kulat settles cases. Working as a mediator, a Collaborative lawyer, and a neutral case facilitator, she is passionate about helping families heal. She actively supports the International Academy of Collaborative Professionals as a community member. A Fellow of the Collaborative Divorce Illinois, she has held many leadership positions, including President in 2016 and 2017.. She belongs to the Illinois State Bar Association (ISBA) and the DuPage County Bar Association.. Theresa received a B.A. with Honors in Economics from John Carroll University and her J.D. with Honors from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Previous employers include the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago; Proctor & Gamble; and Ottosen Britz, Ltd.. Her writing credits include: "Holistic Divorce: An Opportunity for Transformation," published in Stress-Free Divorce, and the "Collaborative Process Act" chapter in Gitlin on Divorce. She provides training and public speaking through her other company, Trinity Collaboration, Inc.. Our Mission:  To provide legal representation and mediation services that empower people to negotiate agreements that allow them to build healthy lives, prosper financially, and co-parent children effectively.