Volume IIII - Issue No. 3 - Fall 2001

LIP SERVICE

An Illinois Appellate Court has upheld the conviction of a Defendant found guilty of violating an Order of Protection even though the Defendant had never been served with a copy of the Order. The Court held that the Defendant knowingly violated the terms of the Order since he was told of the existence of the Order by a police officer and the victim.

TAKE STOCK

A bill has been passed by both houses of the Illinois legislature which will make unexercised stock options marital property. [750 ILCS 5/503 (b)(3)] Illinois case law has previously held that stock options in divorce cases have no value and are not even property subject to distribution.

SOCIAL SECURITY ONLINE

You can now apply for social security retirement benefits on Social Security's website: www.ssa.gov/applytoretire/.

COLOR OF THE LAW

The term "red tape" comes from nineteenth-century England when documents were bound in reddish ribbon. Common folk derisively cited the process of tying and untying the tape as an excuse for the slowness of government decisions.

The term " Blue Laws" began in 1665 when a clergyman and a governor of the New Haven Colony determined a strict legal code of personal conduct and produced the document on blue paper.

From Lawyers, Jokes, and Anecdotes.

ADDITIONAL NOTARIES PUBLIC

The Illinois Secretary of State may now appoint residents of a state bordering Illinois whose place of work or business is within a county in this state. The appointment is contingent upon the other state authorizing residents of Illinois to be appointed as notaries public in that state. The appointment for nonresidents is for a one-year term. Residents of Illinois may be appointed for a four-year term.

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