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Each case is unique and the length of a divorce case in Illinois depends on the facts and circumstances of each case. The length of the case largely depends on the complexity of your case. The more unresolved issues you have the longer you can expect your case will take.

Joint custody requires both parents to consult with each other prior to making a major decision regarding their children. A major decision includes any decision involving the medical, education and religious upbringing. Joint Custody also requires that the parents attend mediation in the event of a conflict regarding the children. Sole custody involves only one parent making the major decisions of the children. Illinois courts strongly favor an award of joint custody.

This is a tough question. You have to consider the statutory summary suspension. If you take the breath or blood test your license will be suspended for 6 months. If you don't, the suspension will be a year. That being said, if you blow over a .08, it becomes more difficult to win your case at trial. If there is no blow, the chance increases greatly. If you have had nothing to drink and blow under .08, your license will not be suspended.

This is called "constructive possession." It means that if you are near drugs, and you could exercise control over the drugs, then you are in possession. For example, if four people are in a car inhaling or injecting drugs together and a police officer knocks on the window, all four could be convicted of possession even if the drugs were in the center console and not on anyone person.