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IN RE MARRIAGE OF ALTMAN AND BLOCK

No. 1-14-3076.

2016 IL App (1st) 143076

In re MARRIAGE OF HEATHER ALTMAN, Petitioner-Appellee, and JEFFREY BLOCK, Respondent-Appellee (Steven D. Gerage, Contemnor-Appellant).

Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, Third Division.

Filed July 27, 2016.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lake Toback, of Chicago (Michael G. DiDomenico and Sean M. Hamann, of counsel), for appellant.

No brief filed for appellees.

Paul L. Feinstein and Grund & Leavitt PC (Jamie R. Fisher and David Adams, of counsel), for amicus curiae.

Justice Pucinski concurred in part and dissented in part, with opinion.

OPINION

¶ 1 At issue in this appeal are the "leveling of the playing field" provisions of the Illinois Marriage and Dissolution of Marriage Act (Act) (750 ILCS 5/501(c-1) (West 2012)) providing for interim attorney fee awards, and in particular, we are asked...

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