Experienced Divorce &
Family Law Attorneys
We Manage the Avalanche
The Law Firm Dedicated Exclusively
to Divorce and Family Law
Because Nothing is More Important
Than Your Family and Finances
Intelligent, Diligent, Reliable Solutions
Intelligent, Diligent, Reliable Solutions
The Law Firm Dedicated Exclusively
to Divorce and Family Law
Because Nothing is More Important
Than Your Family and Finances
Experienced Divorce Attorneys Chicago
- Secure Financial Relief and Protection of Assets including Your Fair Share of Investments, Retirement Accounts, Small Businesses, Home Equity, Maintenance, Child Support, etc.
- Secure Primary Residence of Children, Custody, Parenting Time, Visitation, Decision Making, Relocation, Grandparent Rights, etc.
- Secure Experienced Representation in Cook, Will, Kankakee, Grundy, Kendall, DuPage and Kane Counties . . . by Calling Now to Talk to a Wakenight Divorce Attorney.
When you are facing the possibility of a divorce or any other family-related legal matter, it is understandable that you might be feeling confused, overwhelmed, and unsure about where to start. At Wakenight & Associates, P.C., we recognize the challenges that come with divorce and family law concerns, and we are equipped to help you manage the avalanche of logistical, spousal, parental, custodial, financial, emotional, and legal issues that may be overwhelming you.
Our skilled divorce attorneys and matrimonial law attorneys have more than 50 years of combined legal experience. We have helped many clients throughout the greater Chicago region with their most difficult divorce and family law matters. Let us put our knowledge, experience, and abilities to work for you and your family.
Family Law Attorneys Chicago
- Parentage/Paternity: We will help you meet the requirements to establish legal paternity, which will protect parents’ and children’s rights and ensure that children receive financial support from both parents.
- Adoption: We will provide dedicated representation throughout the entire process of adopting a child, addressing legal concerns related to adoptive parents, adoptive children, birth parents, adoption agencies, or DCFS.
- Guardianship: When parents are unable and unwilling to carry out their duties as parents we can help establish a guardianship for safety and care of the child.
Family law is complex. It is not enough to be merely correct, proper, accurate or truthful. When you enter Family Court, you will be required to follow the rules of civil procedure and “prove” your case to the degree necessary to convince the Court to rule in your favor
while your opponent is, likewise, striving to convince the Court to rule against you.
When it comes to divorce, you need a firm that specializes in family law and divorce cases. Our family law attorneys in are the best in Chicago. With years of experience our attorneys will guide you through the process and mitigate the stress that is involved when going through a divorce.
When you enter Family Court will want to have an advocate on your side who will protect your rights and your family’s best interests. Whether you are in a divorce case or a paternity case or are dealing with issues of guardianship or adoption or any family law matter
our skilled family law attorneys can help you achieve positive results. Servicing Chicago and the surrounding areas.
Committed To Helping Our Clients Succeed
Our Practice Areas
Divorce
Family Law
Our Attorneys
Mark T. Wakenight
President
Mark T. Wakenight
President
Mark T. Wakenight graduated from the University of Kansas School of Law in 1988 and returned home to the Chicago area. For the next 12 years, he represented clients in many different areas of law including bankruptcy, criminal defense, human rights, personal injury, property damage, real estate, traffic, license reinstatement, adoption, probate, guardianship, paternity, divorce, etc. When Bartley F. Goldberg, a classmate from the University of Chicago, was looking for a litigator to join his practice, Mark joined Mr. Goldberg in his Lincoln Park Office. The pair later created the Law Offices of Goldberg & Wakenight and thereafter opened an Oak Park Office. It was then that Mark began to refine his thinking about the type of clients he wanted to represent.
Words from Attorney Wakenight Himself
Mark shares his experience in establishing Wakenight & Associates:
By the time I opened Wakenight & Associates, P.C. in Oak Park, it was clear that I was most comfortable representing divorce and family law clients, and that if I wanted to improve as a lawyer, I had to pursue these areas of law wholeheartedly. I could not hope to become a good divorce and family law attorney by representing clients with other types of problems.
As my divorce and family law business grew, I soon had more clients than I could handle, and I began to hire like-minded Associates to represent the additional clients. This made the process better still because now I had colleagues with whom I could exchange ideas, strategies, and information and my office has been growing ever since.
We still get occasional requests to represent clients in other types of cases, but we do not accept any case outside family law.
All we do is family law, all day, every day. That's the philosophy behind our company which is why today the firm is known as the Divorce and Family Law Offices of Wakenight & Associates, P.C.
The Most Important Cases in Family Law: Child Custody
In child custody cases, the stakes are high, the pressure is intense and emotions run high. Over the years Mark T. Wakenight has successfully won custody for many clients. "It's not just a matter of knowing and applying the facts to the law it's also a matter of coaching a distraught mother or father through the most difficult time of their lives. Just like I took these cases now my Associates capably handle these difficult cases, but with much more help from colleagues and myself, where necessary."
In handling custody cases Wakenight became eligible to serve as an attorney for children in custody cases and in 2001 he was certified by the Honorable Judge Moshe Jacobius, then Presiding Judge of the Cook County Domestic Relations Division, to represent children in custody cases in the Circuit Court of Cook County Illinois. He maintained that certification until 2013 when he resigned to concentrate more fully on the management of the Divorce and Family Law Offices of Wakenight & Associates, P.C.
Practice Areas
- Divorce
- Paternity
- Custody
- Guardianship
- Child Support
- Maintenance
- Property Division
- Visitation
- Post-Decree Litigation
- Grandparents Rights
Bar Admissions
- Illinois, 1988
- U.S. District Court Northern District of Illinois, 1989
Education
- University of Kansas School of Law, Lawrence, Kansas, 1988, J.D.
- University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, 1981, B.A.
Professional Associations
- American Bar Association
- Illinois State Bar Association
- Chicago Bar Association
- DuPage County Bar Association
- Will County Bar Association
- West Suburban Bar Association
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