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Articles From Scott C. Colky

Chair’s Column By Scott C. Colky Family Law, July 2007 Life’s short, so I will get to the point.
Chair’s column By Scott C. Colky Family Law, June 2007 The Illinois and Federal Eavesdropping and Wiretap statutes were originally passed to protect the privacy of persons in their own conversation and over the telephone.
Chair’s column By Scott C. Colky Family Law, April 2007 Recently, there appeared on the internet a Petition to Abolish Section 506, Representation of Children.
Message from the Chair By Scott C. Colky Family Law, January 2007 Out of state CLEs, fun and learning in the sun!
Message from the Chair By Scott C. Colky Family Law, October 2006 A good family lawyer needs to know the Illinois Marriage and Dissolution of Marriage Act, the UCCJEA, the Parentage Act, the Tax Code, the Illinois Mental Health and Developmental Disability Act, the Illinois Domestic Violence Act and a myriad of other statutes.
Message from the Chair By Scott C. Colky Family Law, August 2006 Mothers without custody, disillusioned fathers who need special attorneys to get their rights, litigants unhappy with their outcomes.
Privileged communications under the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Confidentiality Act and family law issues By Scott C. Colky Family Law, December 2003 Many attorneys, and more commonly child representatives, may not understand the implications in re-disclosing information they learn from a child’s therapist.
The Child Representative statute is unconstitutional By Scott C. Colky Family Law, December 2002 The members of the Special Subcommittee of the Illinois State Bar Association who wrote and lobbied for the "Child's Representative" statute were well-intentioned, hardworking attorneys and judges who cared deeply for children.
Problems in the enforcement of foreign divorce judgments By Scott C. Colky Family Law, May 2001 We hear on a daily basis the world is getting smaller. We are told we are becoming a global village.
The forgotten writ By Scott C. Colky Family Law, January 2000 Most common law writs were abolished by the enactment of the Code of Civil Procedure in 1982 (735 ILCS 5/2-1501).
Modification of custody within two years after Davis By Scott C. Colky Family Law, March 1999 On October 21, 1998, a new client comes into your office and tells you that 14 months ago he and his ex-wife entered into a joint parenting agreement.

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