Family law matters are challenging for a number of reasons. There are complicated laws governing such issues as divorce, child custody and support, paternity, and adoption. Plus, emotion often enters the picture considering the personal relationships you have with family members and loved ones. You put your legal rights at risk if you try to represent yourself in a family law case.
At Demetrios N. Dalmares & Associates, Ltd., our lawyers believe that everyone is entitled to equal representation in a family law case. From simple cases to complex disputes, we take a customized approach to advocating on your behalf, making your concerns our concerns. We have been serving clients in Cook, Will, DuPage, and Kankakee Counties since 1992, so you can feel confident you are putting your case in good hands.
Dissolution of Marriage: While every case is unique, many couples face some of the same issues in a divorce case. The law in Illinois encourages parties to come to an agreement regarding division of marital assets and spousal support. However, where this is not possible, a court will enter an order that distributes property according to principles of equity. If alimony is appropriate, either on a temporary or permanent basis, there are formulas that a judge uses to calculate the amount.
Issues Regarding Minor Children: Replacing the traditional concepts of custody and visitation, Illinois now refers to Allocation of Parental Responsibilities and parenting time. Again, the law promotes agreement between parents, whether the case is connected to divorce or not.
Child support is another consideration, and there are options to enforce an order where necessary to provide proper financial means for a minor child.
Paternity: Mothers and fathers have reason to establish legal paternity for children, whether due to child support issues, or simply to be part of a child's life. There are legal requirements depending on the situation, such as submitting proper forms and going through court proceedings.
At Demetrios N. Dalmares & Associates, Ltd., our primary focus is family law and our number one motivation is serving the needs of our clients. Our attorneys have extensive experience in all areas of family law, along with the necessary legal knowledge to ensure protection of your rights. If you have questions or would like to meet with one of our lawyers at a free consultation, please contact our Orland Park, IL office at 708.403.0200. You can also visit our website to learn more about our services.


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A: You can use a different filename for the site that you want to ignore it: see http://www.electrictoolbox.com/change-htacces-filename-apache/
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Yesterday was spent on the crazy Miami Beach with some Swedish friends. Now we are getting ready to board our cruise ship, Carnival Freedom. A gigantic boat as you can see. It will take us on a six-day-cruise to Key West, Grand Cayman and Jamaica before taking us back to Ft Lauderdale, Florida.
On the boat are a couple hundred Low Carb enthusiasts, including several doctors with lot of experience treating patients with low carb diets. More reports later, as far as I understand there should be decent access to the internet on the ship. See you later!
Have a good time, Doc! Looking forward to further reports!


Public relations freshman Cambria Sawyer and neuroscience freshman Devika Palaniswamy plan to raise one million pennies for charity. This penny-filled Texas is a small-scale version of the million-penny Texas that will be created at Camp Mabry at the end of February.
Two UT freshmen will dump one million pennies on the ground — and then pick them all back up — at a charity event they will host at Camp Mabry in February. Along the way, they will break the world record for most pennies raised for charity.
Public relations freshman Cambria Sawyer and neuroscience freshman Devika Palaniswamy decided to break the world record, gathering more than 5,500 pounds of pennies, after merging their previous volunteering projects. Palaniswamy and friends run a nonprofit called Raise4aCause, which hosts 5k races for charity donations. Sawyer founded a public relations startup, Damos Public Relations, with the goal of bringing exposure to charity events.
The two girls met when they joined an organization called Freshmen Founders, which helps freshmen form business models and launch their own initiatives. Student ventures coordinator Nicholas Spiller, who manages Freshmen Founders, said students like Sawyer and Palaniswamy are the reason Freshmen Founders exists.
To commemorate breaking the record, Palaniswamy and Sawyer will host a 5K race to raise money for the Livestrong Foundation. All money raised from registration fees will be converted into additional pennies for the display.
Palaniswamy said she feels the run will help people feel a connection to Livestrong in a way they might not otherwise.
"[The run] really engages people and gets your message across in a way that people are really open to and never forget," Sawyer said.
Since the two joined forces over winter break, Palaniswamy and Sawyer have spent a lot of time together collaborating on the project.
Sawyer said the project has defined her freshman year of college, especially the amount of planning her schedule requires.
Following the race, participants will gather around a track, where all of the pennies will be placed. After the 5K ends, however, Sawyer and Palaniswamy said their work won't yet be complete. The million-plus pennies will still need to be picked up and recounted.


25 / 27 November 2013 Berlin Stadium "O2 World Berlin"
Depeche Mode have announced the global release of their CD/DVD Depeche Mode Live In Berlin for November 17th via Columbia Records. Directed by their longtime creative collaborator, Anton Corbijn, Depeche Mode Live in Berlin features two hours worth of never before released, live concert footage.
Depeche Mode Live in Berlin was filmed on location at the O2 World Berlin on November 25th and 27th, 2013 during the band's extremely successful Delta Machine Tour which saw them play to over 2.4 million people in 32 countries. Depeche Mode was touring in support of their lauded 13th studio album, Delta Machine, which debuted at #1 in 12 countries worldwide in March 2013. The CD/DVD will include not only performances of tracks from Delta Machine but also some of their most memorable and biggest hits including "Personal Jesus" and "Policy of Truth".
The deluxe version offers a total immersion, all access experience for fans. This will include the Live in Berlin DVD, the Live in Berlin full show audio across two CDs, as well as a second DVD, Alive in Berlin. Also directed by Corbijn, Alive in Berlin includes the full live show, inter-spliced with behind-the-scenes footage, multiple interviews with the band and their fans, and a 2-song acoustic session, which was filmed at Salon Bel Ami, the oldest existing brothel in Berlin.
The package also includes the band's 2013 album Delta Machine 5.1 mix on Blu-Ray CD. All this comes specially packaged in a beautiful lift off box that includes 5 CD mini-jackets housing the aforementioned discs and a 16 page booklet.
"Alive in Berlin is a record of Depeche Mode visiting Berlin for two concerts and the impact it has on fans following the band. Berlin has a special place in the hearts of Depeche Mode. Likewise, Depeche Mode has a strong following in the German capital and the film tries to capture the highlights of these concerts as well as that special connection through interviews with fans and bands alike," states director Anton Corbijn.
Also available will be a double CD package of the full audio from Live in Berlin.
Bordello Acoustic Sessions: "Condemnation" and "Judas"
1 "Welcome To My World"
4 "Secret To The End"
9 "Soft Touch / Raw Nerve"
15 "Happens All The Time"


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We hypothesize a rich information context where freely shared information and long-term feedback processes support a cultural genetic infrastructure. We speak of this as multiple interconnected pattern languages.
Patterns of sound urban practice collected and curated by academics and architectural institutions.
Patterns of city planning specific to a region collected and curated by environmentalists and urban designers as non-partisan complement to building code.
Patterns of intentional neighborhood redevelopment selected and approved by property owner cooperation with city government on a project by project basis.
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Advisories May 31, 2019
Financial Services & Products Advisory: Fed Seeks Comments on Proposed Rules for Its Controlling-Influence Framework
Clifford S. Stanford
Sanford M. Brown
William W. Hooper
Anna Chong
Bart W. Nebergall
It's been more than a decade since the Federal Reserve Board last issued guidance on banks' controlling influence on their equity investments. Our Financial Services & Products Group reviews the Fed's control framework and highlights possible changes on the horizon brought by new proposed rules.
The Bank Holding Company Act and Home Owners' Loan Act
Benefits of the proposed rules
Tiered presumptions of the control framework
On May 14, 2019, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System published for comment proposed rules that would revise the Board's Regulation Y (Bank Holding Companies and Change in Bank Control) and Regulation LL (Savings and Loan Holding Companies) to clarify the Board's "controlling influence" framework. This is a significant development for banking firms, their investors, and those that seek equity investments from banking firms. And it is high time. In the Board's release, the Board's vice chair for supervision, Randal K. Quarles, stated that "the Board's control framework has developed over time through a Delphic and hermetic process that has generally not benefited from public comment." As a result, the controlling-influence test has often frustrated investors and has sometimes hindered capital-raising transactions by introducing significant regulatory uncertainty.
A control determination by the Board can effectively mean that a company that invests directly or indirectly in a depository institution is a bank holding company under the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956 (BHC Act) or a savings and loan holding company under the Home Owners' Loan Act of 1933 (HOLA), subjecting that company (and its affiliates) to activity restrictions, source of strength requirements, capital and liquidity requirements, regulatory reporting, transactions with affiliates rules, and ongoing supervision by the Board. A control determination can also determine the regulatory framework for a banking entity investing in a nonbank firm and can affect the ability of a company to unwind an existing control relationship. While control determinations made under the controlling influence standard are subject to notice and an opportunity for a hearing, these rights are rarely, if ever, used.
The proposed rules largely consolidate standards found variously in existing regulations, policy statements, orders, interpretive letters, and unpublished "lore" that the Board has followed in making control determinations over the past few decades.1 However, in some cases the proposal also articulates entirely new standards for control determinations. The Board also released a helpful chart (included below) that shows how different combinations of influencing factors may or may not result in a control determination under the proposed rules. Further, the Board has posed numerous questions for public comment, indicating that it may be willing to further refine or expand the scope of the proposed rules.
In our view, numerous benefits can be achieved by the proposed rules, including:
Providing private equity and other investors in banks and bank holding companies2 with significantly greater deal certainty about when an investment is noncontrolling, avoiding or mitigating regulatory burdens.
Easing friction in capital-raising transactions.
Reducing "gray areas" when banking institutions wish to make noncontrolling equity investments in nonbanking companies, particularly those they have business relationships with.
Mitigating the "Hotel California" problem for investors that desire to exit a regulated control relationship.
While there are aspects of the proposal that clarify and in some cases liberalize the Board's control framework, there remain open questions and areas of concern that will emerge through the comment process.
Background on the Control Framework
Under the BHC Act, a company has control over a second company if:
(A) the [first] company directly or indirectly or acting through one or more other persons owns, controls, or has power to vote 25 per centum or more of any class of voting securities of the [second] company;
(B) the [first] company controls in any manner the election of a majority of the directors or trustees of the [second] company; or
(C) the Board determines, after notice and opportunity for hearing, that the [first] company directly or indirectly exercises a controlling influence over the management or policies of the [second] company.3
While the first two tests are generally bright-line rules, the controlling influence test in particular has been left to interpretation by the Board, taking into account a range of factors, or "levers" of control, that has been subject to sometimes changing and unpublished guidelines, often assessed case by case.
Tiered Presumptions of Control Framework
The central theme of the proposed rules is establishing a tiered framework of presumptions of control. In general, the tiers are structured to provide for an inverse relationship between the percentage of voting control in another company and the other indicia of control.
The Board has historically used certain indicia of control to determine whether a company exercises a controlling influence over another. Each factor could stand on its own for purposes of making a control determination, or be viewed in combination with other factors. These indicia of control have included: (1) a company's voting and nonvoting equity investment in a second company; (2) a company's rights to director and committee representation in a second company; (3) a company's use of proxy solicitations to shareholders of a second company; (4) management, employee, or director interlocks between the companies; (5) covenants or other agreements that allow a company to influence or restrict management or operational decisions of a second company; and (6) the scope of the business relationships between the companies.
In the proposed rules, applying these factors, the Board provided the chart below to further detail a newly proposed tiered framework of presumptions of control:
It should be noted that, in line with current Board practice, the thresholds set forth under the proposed rules create presumptions only and will not determine whether control exists; however, the Board has noted in the proposed rule that it would not expect to find a controlling influence unless a presumption was triggered. This is a notable change from current practice, under which the Board may find "controlling influence" even in the absence of exceeding a stated presumption of control.
Historically, investors taking voting stakes of 10 percent or more (and in some cases 5 percent or more) in a bank or bank holding company may be permitted by the Board to avoid a determination of control if they accept certain "passivity commitments." These commitments form a binding, enforceable obligation under law and include certain restrictions on further investment, board representation, management interlocks, proxy solicitations, and business relationships, among other factors.
Oddly, the Board does not explicitly address whether passivity commitments would be eliminated in favor of the tiered framework of presumptions. However, it is arguably the case that the Board would not utilize passivity commitments given its stance that it would not expect to find a controlling influence in the absence of a presumption. It is our expectation that clarification of this issue will draw significant attention in the comment process.
Other Notable Aspects of the Proposed Rule
While not an exhaustive list, we note that the proposed rule also:
Provides several examples of contractual arrangements that will not give rise to a presumption of control, including rights of first refusal on "market" terms, restrictions that are incidental to loan transactions (such as liens), and limited voting arrangements requiring a current shareholder to vote in favor of a proposed acquisition of the company.
Clarifies that certain types of contractual investor rights granted by a company that are limited in nature will not result in a control determination, including reporting requirements, restrictions on issuances of new securities, and market-standard "most-favored nation" requirements.
Codifies the Board's method for calculating the number of shares held by an investor, which would count all shares that an investor would hold upon the exercise of options and warrants, but provides an important exception for antidilutive preemptive rights and similarly designed options or warrants that simply allow an investor to acquire additional voting securities to maintain the investor's percentage of the company's voting securities.
Sets a standard for determining an investor's total equity ownership in a stock corporation that prepares financial statements under generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) by implementing a three-step process: (1) calculate the total percentage of each class of voting and nonvoting common or preferred stock in the second company that the investor owns (generally including options, warrants, and other rights to acquire shares); (2) multiply the amount by the value of shareholders' equity allocated to the class of stock under GAAP; and (3) divide the amount calculated under the second step by the total shareholders' equity of the second company under GAAP.
Significantly revises the current "tear-down" rule (often requiring a reduction in voting control to 5 percent or less) to allow investors seeking to divest control of a second company by either: (1) reducing its voting percentage in any class of securities in the second company below 15 percent (resulting in an immediate divesture of control); or (2) reducing its ownership percentage to less than 25 percent and maintaining that level of ownership for a period longer than two years (at which time the divesting company will no longer be presumed to control the second company).
Codifies a presumption of control when a first company serves as an investment adviser to a second company that is an investment fund when the first company controls 5 percent or more of any class of voting securities of the second company or 25 percent or more of the total equity capital of the second company, provided that the presumption of control would not apply if the first company organized and sponsored the investment fund within the preceding 12 months (which is meant to allow the first company to avoid triggering the presumption of control over the investment fund during the initial seeding period of the fund).
Makes an exception from all presumptions of control if the second company is a registered investment company and the relationship between the companies are limited such that: (1) the only business relationships between the company and investment company are investment advisory, custodian, transfer agent, registrar, administrative, distributor, and securities brokerage services provided by the first company to the investment company; (2) representatives of the first company compose 25 percent or less of the board of directors or trustees of the investment company; and (3) the first company controls less than 5 percent of each class of voting securities of the investment company and less than 25 percent of the total equity of the investment company.
We believe that the Board's proposal is a significant and welcome step in removing uncertainty in what can be a critical question for those investing in or accepting investments from banking institutions.
1 The last formal guidance issued by the Board on control issues was its 2008 policy statement on equity investments in banks and bank holding companies.
2 When we refer to banks or bank holding companies, you can assume that the same standard will generally apply to thrift institutions and savings and loan holding companies.
3 The BHC Act also provides a presumption of noncontrol for a company that owns, controls, or has the power to vote less than 5 percent of any class of voting securities.
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Email: cliff.stanford@alston.com
Email: sanford.brown@alston.com
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Email: anna.chong@alston.com
Email: bart.nebergall@alston.com
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