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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, Couples in divorce, custody, and visitation court |
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| proceedings often do not have equal access to financial |
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| resources; and
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| WHEREAS, Perpetrators of domestic violence gain control of |
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| financial assets to obtain power and control over their |
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| partners and victims; and
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| WHEREAS, Victims of domestic violence often have no |
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| financial assets to help them obtain, or maintain, custody of |
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| their children; and
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| WHEREAS, Victims of domestic violence often have no |
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| financial assets to protect their children from their abusers' |
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| repeated custody or visitation disputes; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE |
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| NINETY-FOURTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that |
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| we urge all attorneys and other legal advocates involved in |
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| divorce, custody, and visitation proceedings in court to |
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| responsibly negotiate and litigate the expenditure of marital |
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| assets for payment of attorney's fees for both parties during |
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| dissolution, post-dissolution, paternity, and domestic |
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| violence cases and utilize thereby to the fullest extent |
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| possible the significant remedy provisions found in the |
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| "leveling law", specifically Section 501(c)(1) of the Illinois |
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| Marriage and Dissolution of Marriage Act.
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