P. Andre Katz is a co-principal and founder of the firm Katz
& Stefani, LLC, which has earned the reputation as one of the best and most
respected family law firms in the Chicagoland area. A recognized expert in the
field of family law, Paul Andre Katz was recently the Chair of the Illinois Family Study
Committee (IFLSC), whose charge it was to perform a comprehensive review and
revision of the 1977 Illinois Marriage and Dissolution of Marriage Act (IMDMA),
as well as revision of the 1984 Parentage Act.
Key IMDMA components reviewed and revised by P. Andre Katz and
the IFLSC were the legal grounds for dissolution of marriage. Following IFLSC’s
recommendations to the Illinois General Assembly, as well as passage of the
revised law in late 2015, the IMDMA now establishes only one ground for
dissolution: “those irreconcilable differences have caused the irretrievable
breakdown of the marriage.”
The change to the Grounds for Dissolution, according to P. Andre Katz, resulted from “the idea that we need to continue to litigate ‘fault’ in a
broken marriage (which) wastes valuable time and money and does not promote
better cooperation either during resolution of the matter or subsequent to
entry of a Judgement of Dissolution of Marriage.”
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