Michael J. Calabrese
Principal
Email: calabreseassoc@aol.com

Practice Areas: Family Law; Divorce; Child Custody; Child Support; Adoption Law; Alimony; Annulment; Domestic Relations; Equitable Distribution; Interstate Support; Marital Agreements; Marital Property Distribution; Marital Property Law; Marital Property Settlements; Matrimonial Law; Name Changes; Paternity; Post Divorce Modification; Postnuptial Agreements; Premarital Agreements; Qualified Domestic Relations Orders (QDROs); Restraining Orders; Separation Agreements; Spousal Support; Uncontested Divorce.

Admitted: 1993, Illinois and U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois

Law School: DePaul University, J.D., with honors, 1993; DePaul University, J.D., with highest distinction, 1993

College: Dominican University, B.A., cum laude, 1990

Member: DuPage County (Chair, Family Law Committee, 2005-2006); Illinois State (Member, Family Law Section) and American (Member, Family Law Section) Bar Associations.

Biography: Order of the Coif. DePaul University Law Review, 1992-1993. Recipient: Dean's Scholar, Scholarship Awarded to the Top 10 Students, National Trial Team, Selected by Faculty 1991-1993; John Powers Crowley Award for Excellence on Trial Team; Three American Jurisprudence Awards, Contracts I & II, Legal Writing II. Elected Trial Team Representative, Moot Court Society Executive Board. DCBA Brief Contributing Author, 2000-2001, Presenter, DCBA Mega Meeting Seminar, 2001, 2003, 2004; Law Update presented to DCBA Family Law Committee, Family Law Case, monthly 2000-2005. Professional Responsibility Committee Chair, DCBA, 1999-2000.

Languages: Spanish.

Reported Cases: In re T.W., 313 Ill.App.3d 890, 731 N.E.2d 982 (2d Dist. 2000), appeal denied, 191 Ill.2d 532, 738 N.E.2d 926 (2000).

Born: Chicago, Illinois, May 31, 1969

ISLN: 900565203