This article examines “Illinois appellate courts’ ever-shrinking ability to review divorce and paternity cases when issues remain pending with the trial court.” In light of the five Illinois Supreme Court cases that has led to our 2021 Crecos III decision prohibiting piecemeal appeals of post-decree parental allocation proceedings absent a Supreme Court 304(a) special finding, that statement remains true. The only major exception now involves parental allocation proceedings in initial divorce and parental cases where other issues have not yet been resolved.
The genesis for this article was an August 2000 Illinois Bar Journal article co-authored by Gunnar J. Gitlin.
This article has now been updated and expanded.
